Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri
Akashic| Kamala Harris ✓Democratic | 50.5% | 541,664 |
|---|---|---|
| Donald TrumpRepublican | 47.9% | 513,617 |
| Chase OliverLibertarian | 1.7% | 17,879 |
County-level results (14 counties) — table
| County | Winner | Margin |
|---|---|---|
| Bates County, MO | Republican | R+61.6 |
| Caldwell County, MO | Republican | R+61.3 |
| Cass County, MO | Republican | R+32.1 |
| Clay County, MO | Republican | R+5.6 |
| Clinton County, MO | Republican | R+47.9 |
| Jackson County, MO | Democratic | D+19.3 |
| Johnson County, KS | Democratic | D+8.5 |
| Lafayette County, MO | Republican | R+48.9 |
| Leavenworth County, KS | Republican | R+22.8 |
| Linn County, KS | Republican | R+64.6 |
| Miami County, KS | Republican | R+39.5 |
| Platte County, MO | Republican | R+3.1 |
| Ray County, MO | Republican | R+48.7 |
| Wyandotte County, KS | Democratic | D+23.9 |
| Year | Won | Democratic | Republican | Other | Margin | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 50.5%Harris541,664 | 47.9%Trump513,617 | 1.7%Oliver17,879 | 1,073,160 | ||
| D | 51.3%Biden559,895 | 46.6%Trump508,524 | 2.2%Jorgensen23,626 | 1,092,045 | ||
| R | 45.4%Clinton436,284 | 47.0%Trump451,531 | 7.5%Johnson72,395 | 960,210 | ||
| R | 47.8%Obama447,036 | 50.1%Romney468,710 | 2.1%Johnson19,579 | 935,325 | ||
| D | 52.1%Obama515,075 | 46.6%McCain459,981 | 1.3%Nader12,647 | 987,703 | ||
| R | 47.9%Kerry434,368 | 51.3%Bush464,493 | 0.8%Badnarik7,199 | 906,060 | ||
| D | 48.9%Gore377,333 | 48.0%Bush370,249 | 3.1%Nader23,961 | 771,543 | ||
| D | 47.6%Clinton330,662 | 43.1%Dole299,307 | 9.4%Perot65,233 | 695,202 | ||
| D | 42.2%Clinton322,484 | 32.3%Bush246,506 | 25.6%Perot195,297 | 764,287 | ||
| D | 50.7%Dukakis326,727 | 48.7%Bush313,829 | 0.6%Fulani3,714 | 644,270 | ||
| R | 42.4%Mondale273,607 | 57.3%Reagan370,010 | 0.3%Bergland1,793 | 645,410 | ||
| R | 44.7%Carter270,299 | 48.6%Reagan293,784 | 6.7%Anderson40,619 | 604,702 | ||
| D | 50.0%Carter282,944 | 48.2%Ford272,793 | 1.9%McCarthy10,651 | 566,388 | ||
| R | 35.6%McGovern188,657 | 63.4%Nixon335,716 | 1.0%Schmitz5,373 | 529,746 | ||
| R | 43.0%Humphrey224,020 | 44.3%Nixon230,736 | 12.7%Wallace65,920 | 520,676 | ||
| D | 62.7%Johnson310,387 | 36.9%Goldwater182,768 | 0.4%Hass1,774 | 494,929 | ||
| R | 49.5%Kennedy265,648 | 50.4%Nixon270,667 | 0.1%Byrd791 | 537,106 | ||
| R | 48.5%Stevenson240,007 | 51.5%Eisenhower254,649 | 0.1%Andrews288 | 494,944 | ||
| R | 47.7%Stevenson240,812 | 52.1%Eisenhower263,069 | 0.2%Hallinan968 | 504,849 | ||
| D | 59.0%Truman243,882 | 40.4%Dewey167,288 | 0.6%Thurmond2,448 | 413,618 | ||
| D | 51.6%Roosevelt198,314 | 48.2%Dewey185,185 | 0.2%Thomas881 | 384,380 | ||
| D | 54.6%Roosevelt237,305 | 45.2%Willkie196,434 | 0.2%Thomas947 | 434,686 | ||
| D | 66.1%Roosevelt321,194 | 33.5%Landon162,851 | 0.4%Lemke1,833 | 485,878 | ||
| D | 64.3%Roosevelt276,586 | 35.0%Hoover150,520 | 0.7%Thomas2,797 | 429,903 | ||
| R | 41.2%Smith158,292 | 58.5%Hoover224,546 | 0.3%Thomas1,075 | 383,913 | ||
| R | 40.7%Davis129,700 | 52.4%Coolidge167,324 | 6.9%La Follette21,993 | 319,017 | ||
| R | 47.4%Cox137,397 | 51.4%Harding149,243 | 1.2%Debs3,482 | 290,122 | ||
| D | 55.6%Wilson104,070 | 41.8%Hughes78,210 | 2.7%Benson5,021 | 187,301 | ||
| D | 49.5%Wilson70,116 | 15.6%Taft22,054 | 34.9%Roosevelt49,349 | 141,519 | ||
| D | 52.2%Bryan73,428 | 45.3%Taft63,785 | 2.5%Debs3,495 | 140,708 | ||
| R | 42.1%Parker51,704 | 53.1%Roosevelt65,227 | 4.7%Debs5,826 | 122,757 | ||
| D | 52.3%Bryan66,123 | 45.4%McKinley57,317 | 2.3%Woolley2,946 | 126,386 | ||
| D | 56.3%Bryan69,331 | 42.7%McKinley52,578 | 1.1%Palmer1,306 | 123,215 | ||
| R | 38.2%Cleveland38,299 | 39.8%Harrison39,951 | 22.0%Weaver22,017 | 100,267 |
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
|---|---|
| 1892 | −1.6% |
| 1896 | +13.6% |
| 1900 | +7.0% |
| 1904 | −11.0% |
| 1908 | +6.9% |
| 1912 | +34.0% |
| 1916 | +13.8% |
| 1920 | −4.1% |
| 1924 | −11.8% |
| 1928 | −17.3% |
| 1932 | +29.3% |
| 1936 | +32.6% |
| 1940 | +9.4% |
| 1944 | +3.4% |
| 1948 | +18.5% |
| 1952 | −4.4% |
| 1956 | −3.0% |
| 1960 | −0.9% |
| 1964 | +25.8% |
| 1968 | −1.3% |
| 1972 | −27.8% |
| 1976 | +1.8% |
| 1980 | −3.9% |
| 1984 | −14.9% |
| 1988 | +2.0% |
| 1992 | +9.9% |
| 1996 | +4.5% |
| 2000 | +0.9% |
| 2004 | −3.3% |
| 2008 | +5.6% |
| 2012 | −2.3% |
| 2016 | −1.6% |
| 2020 | +4.7% |
| 2024 | +2.6% |
The Kansas City, MO-KS metropolitan area has a presidential record spanning the 1892 through 2024 elections. Across that period its margin moved from D+34 in 1912, the strongest Democratic result in the record, to R+28 in 1972, the strongest Republican result. In 2024 the area's margin was D+3. The distance between the 1912 peak and the 1972 peak marks the full breadth of the shift documented in the record. Kansas City, MO-KS is composed of 14 constituent counties, with Ray County, Jackson County, and Bates County among the largest. The area had a population of 2,218,142 in the 2024 ACS five-year estimate. Its median age was 38.0 in the same estimate. The presidential margins reported here are aggregated across all constituent counties and describe the area total rather than any single community. The arc runs from a D+34 high in 1912 to an R+28 high in 1972, the two extremes in the 1892 through 2024 record. The most recent figure, D+3 in 2024, places the area near the center of that range. Measured across the full presidential record, the area moved from its strongest Democratic margin to its strongest Republican margin and then to a narrow Democratic result in the latest contest.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 27.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.6 points.
A population of 2,218,142, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,452 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN and Columbus, OH.
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