employed 2.0%. List of members representing the district Election results from recent statewide races Recent election results 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2017 special election 2018 2020 2022 Historical district boundaries In 2012, in an unusual move, the federal courts intervened in Kansas's decennial redistricting (required by law to adjust boundaries of Congressional and state legislative districts every 10 years, to reflect changing population distributions, as reported by the decennial census). Sharply criticizing the Legislature for the intractable feud between conservative and moderate factions in the Kansas Legislature (normally responsible for redistricting), and recognizing the rapidly approaching next elections, a federal three-judge panel (the Chief Justice of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and two judges from the Kansas City U.S. District Court) drew the Kansas state and Congressional district boundaries themselves, in rather simple and direct shapes that produced radical changes. In the process, the 4th congressional district shifted west—still centered approximately on (and demographically dominated by) Wichita, The district's previous eastern boundary – Montgomery County and part of Greenwood County – were moved into another district, while the 4th district's western edge moved farther west, to include all of Pratt, Stafford, Barber, Kiowa, Comanche and Edwards counties, plus a slender section of southern Pawnee County. In the process, the Fourth acquired a more neatly rectangular shape, and sharply reduced the amount of counties divided between the Fourth and another district. The map shown here indicates prior boundaries. See also Kansas's congressional districts List of United States congressional districts References 04 Barber County, Kansas Butler County, Kansas Chautauqua County, Kansas Comanche County, Kansas Cowley County, Kansas Edwards County, Kansas Elk County, Kansas Greenwood County, Kansas Harper County, Kansas Harvey County, Kansas Kingman County, Kansas Kiowa County, Kansas Pawnee County, Kansas Pratt County, Kansas Sedgwick County, Kansas Stafford County, Kansas Sumner County, Kansas