Population 2010

498,365

Population 2020

523,824

Registered Voters

223,688

Republicans

122,416

Democrat

95,870

Minor Party

5,402

No Party

Municipalities

Cities Population 
Andale941
Bel Aire8,262
Bentley560
Cheney2,181
Clearwater2,653
Colwich1,455
Derby22,626
Eastborough756
Garden Plain 948
Goddard5,084
Haysville11,262
Kechi2,217
Maize5,735
Mount Hope806
Mulvane6,286
Park City8,333
Sedgwick1,603
Valley Center7,340
Viola115
Wichita397,532
 

Superintendent of Schools

Treasurer / Tax Collector

County Commission

District 1Pete Meitzner
District 2Sarah Lopez
District 3David Dennis
District 4 Lacey Cruse
District 5Jim Howell

School Board

At LargeSheril Logan
District 1Diane Albert
District 2Julie Hedrick
District 3Ernestine Krehbiel
District 4Stan Reeser
District 5 Kathy Bond
District 6Hazel Stabler

Brief Political History

Sedgwick County is fairly conservative for an urban county. It has only gone Democratic in a presidential election once since 1944. Democratic strength is concentrated in Wichita, while the suburban areas are strongly Republican. However, the county often backs Democrats for governorship - most recently Laura Kelly in 2018. This makes it a bellwether in local Kansas elections, with the statewide winner almost always winning the county. The last Democratic Senate candidate to win the county was Bill Roy in 1974, while Kansas as a whole has not been represented by a Democrat in the Senate since 1938.

Sedgwick County was a prohibition, or "dry", county until the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 and voters approved the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with a 30 percent food sales requirement. The food sales requirement was removed with voter approval in 1988.

The county voted "No" on the 2022 Kansas Value Them Both Amendment, an anti-abortion ballot measure, by 58% to 42% despite backing Donald Trump with 54% of the vote to Joe Biden's 43% in the 2020 presidential election.

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