Prairie-Piper-KC-KS, Kansas City, KS Political Map | Democrat & Republican Areas in Prairie-Piper-KC-KS

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

Prairie-Piper-KC-KS leans slightly Republican by roughly 8 points: about 46% of voters vote Democratic and 54% Republican.

 

About 76% of adults in Prairie-Piper-KC-KS typically vote, above the U.S. average of about 62%. Among adults in Prairie-Piper-KC-KS, ~35% vote Democratic, ~41% Republican, and ~24% don't vote. The map below shows estimated turnout by block group.

How Prairie-Piper-KC-KS compares

Prairie-Piper-KC-KS runs about 9 points more Democratic than Kansas as a whole.

Politics vary noticeably by block within Prairie-Piper-KC-KS. The south side runs the most Democratic (D+7) and the northwest side runs the most Republican (R+18), a spread of about 26 points.

Why Prairie-Piper-KC-KS leans the way it does

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

Areas with many family households vote Republican. About 82% of households in Prairie-Piper-KC-KS are family households, about 15 points above the U.S. average of 67%.

Paved land cover and Republican lean

Places with little paved surface tend to lean Republican; Prairie-Piper-KC-KS, Kansas City, KS sits in the bottom tenth nationally on this measure. Paved ground does not change how people vote; it mostly reflects how urban and built-up a place is.

Why turnout in Prairie-Piper-KC-KS looks the way it does

Turnout in Prairie-Piper-KC-KS sits close to the national pattern. Learn more about the findings and methodology on the political spectrum map.

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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.