Kansas's 38th Senate district

Kansas's 38th
State Senate district
Kansas's 38th; State Senate district
Senator
	Ron Ryckman Sr.; R–Meade
Demographics	45% White; 3% Black; 49% Hispanic; 2% Asian; 1% Other
Population (2018)	69,819

Kansas's 38th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican Ron Ryckman Sr. since March 2021, following the death of incumbent Bud Estes on February 13, 2021.^[2]

Geography

District 38 is predominantly based in the two Western Kansas cities of Dodge City and Liberal, covering all of Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade, and Seward Counties and part of Hodgeman County. Other communities in the district include Cimarron, Meade, and Ashland.^[3]

The district is located entirely within Kansas's 1st congressional district, and overlaps with the 115th, 117th, 119th, 124th, and 125th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives.^[4] It borders the state of Oklahoma.^[1]

2020 Kansas Senate election, District 38^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Bud Estes (incumbent)	13,274	68.9
	Democratic	Edgar Pando	5,994	31.1
Total votes			19,268	100
	Republican hold

2012 Kansas Senate election, District 38^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Garrett Love (incumbent)	13,539	77.0
	Democratic	Johnny Dunlap II	4,033	23.0
Total votes			17,572	100
	Republican hold