Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
63.7%
380,725 votes · D+27.7
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 62.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
63.6%
401,394 votes · R+28.3
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 60.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
631,115votes
50.5% of the vote · D+3.2
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 610,489 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
597,919votes
48.7% of the vote · D+1.0
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 591,193 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
James M. Cox1920
+18.9pts D vs U.S.
Place R+7.2 · U.S. R+26.2
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · +15.6 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+8.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+7.0 · U.S. D+1.7
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +6.6 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2025R+5.2
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+1.0
Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 6.2-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2025 (partial)
763,282
248,373
287,953
215,302
11,654
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+4,720 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +24,675 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS in Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−2,873
2012
−1,616
2013
+842
2014
−85
2015
−328
2016
+6,214
2017
+7,765
2018
+4,015
2019
+1,531
2021
+953
2022
−2,549
2023
+1,904
2024
+4,182
2025
+4,720
Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.1 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 28.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.0 points.
A population of 2,555,502, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,153 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO and Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA.
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Political twins — combined metros
The combined metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
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How did Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri vote in 2024?
In 2024, Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri voted Democratic by 1.0 points (D+1.0), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,228,747 votes cast, 610,489 went Democratic and 597,919 went Republican.
When did Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri voted Republican was 2016.
How many people live in Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri?
Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri has a population of 2,555,502 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri?
Median household income in Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri is $83,153 — above the national median of $80,734. The Missouri state median is $74,275.
What is the political history of Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 19 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
