Dry Wood, KS Political Map | Democrat & Republican Areas in Dry Wood

By the BestNeighborhood data science team. Last updated May 2026.

Dry Wood is a Republican stronghold. About 18% of voters here vote Democratic and 82% Republican.

 

About 72% of adults in Dry Wood typically vote, above the U.S. average of about 62%. Among adults in Dry Wood, ~13% vote Democratic, ~59% Republican, and ~28% don't vote. The map below shows estimated turnout by block group.

How Dry Wood compares

Among cities within 25 miles, Dry Wood leans more Republican than 33 of 54 neighbors.

Dry Wood runs about 48 points more Republican than Kansas as a whole.

Politics vary noticeably by neighborhood within Dry Wood. The west side is the most Republican-leaning (R+69) and the south side is the least Republican-leaning (R+53), a spread of about 15 points.

Why Dry Wood leans the way it does

This analysis examined 14,881 data points per city to find what predicts political lean and turnout. The items below are a few correlations that stood out for Dry Wood, not a ranked or complete list of what matters most.

Areas with many family households vote Republican. About 80% of households in Dry Wood are family households, about 13 points above the U.S. average of 67%. Rural areas with a high white share vote Republican. Non-Hispanic white share in Dry Wood is about 94%, about 22 points above the U.S. average of 72%.

Park access and Republican lean

Places with low park coverage tend to lean Republican; Dry Wood, KS sits in the bottom quarter nationally on this measure. Park access does not change how people vote; it tends to track denser, higher-income areas.

Why turnout in Dry Wood looks the way it does

Areas with high high-school completion turn out at higher rates. About 96% of adults in Dry Wood have completed high school, about 6 points above the U.S. average of 90%. Learn more about the findings and methodology on the political spectrum map.

Sources and methodology

Precinct-level voting records used to fit the model come from Kansas Secretary of State, Elections, distributed by the Voting and Election Science Team. Demographic inputs come from the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates and the 2020 Decennial Census). Health and environmental inputs come from the CDC (PLACES and the Environmental Justice Index). Land cover comes from the USGS and EPA. Election-day and lead-up weather come from PRISM 4km daily grids and the NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network. Mail-voting and election-administration patterns come from the MIT Election Lab's Survey of the Performance of American Elections. Block-group crime detail comes from CrimeGrade. Internet data and modeling support provided by ISPreports.org.

Modeling and analysis by the BestNeighborhood data science team. Full methodology and findings: political spectrum map.

Methodology reviewed by the BestNeighborhood data team. Last updated May 2026.