GET ME REWRITE: Donald Trump has greatly helped to turn Johnson County Kansas blue

 

In the 2012 presidential election, Republican Mitt Romney received 57.6 of the votes, winning Johnson County by 17.4 percentage points.

In 2016, Donald Trump received 18,141 fewer votes than Romney did in 2012.  Trump received 46.7$ of the voting, beating Hillary Clinton by 2.6 percentage points.  Clinton received 19,226 more votes than Barack Obama did in 2012.

In 2020, Joe Biden defeated Donald trump by 8.2 percentage points.  Trump received just 44.5% of the Johnson County vote.

Source:  Wikipedia

3rd-party candidates received 23.4% of vote in 1992, 9.4% of vote in 1996, 10.1% in 2016;

(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 10.8% of the vote in 1968)

Kansas City Star, 1/8/20234

In 2013 Democrats held just two of Johnson County’s seats in the Kansas House. Over more than a decade that dynamic has changed dramatically as 16 of the county’s 26 state representatives are now Democrats. 

Republicans have held supermajorities in the state House and Senate for more than a decade, but Democrats now see a path to breaking the veto-proof control in 2024 that runs through Johnson County. It begins when lawmakers return to Topeka for the annual legislative session on Monday. 

It’s the last session before every legislative seat is up for grabs in the November election — first time every seat is up for election since Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly won reelection in 2022. 

Johnson County is Kansas's largest and fastest growing county.