St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL · 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
67.8%
674,199 votes · D+35.7
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 62.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
57.8%
293,271 votes · R+22.5
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 57.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
844,925votes
57.2% of the vote · D+15.6
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 753,653 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
726,882votes
48.1% of the vote · D+1.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 721,453 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
Adlai Stevenson1956
+22.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+6.6 · U.S. R+15.4
Runner-up · Adlai Stevenson, 1952 · +20.5 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+10.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+9.1 · U.S. D+19.5
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +7.8 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.
St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL · 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 St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama10Clinton7473,633 votes · 17 of 17 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Sanders14Clinton3401,785 votes · 17 of 17 countiesprimary
Biden17389,459 votes · 17 of 17 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL
Year
Total registered
2016
2,117,976
2018
2,063,164
2020
1,973,231
2022
2,084,242
2024
2,143,127
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−833 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −112,325 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL in St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−9,372
2012
−11,028
2013
−8,144
2014
−8,384
2015
−7,541
2016
−12,455
2017
−9,620
2018
−9,582
2019
−7,295
2021
−4,800
2022
−13,959
2023
−5,732
2024
−3,580
2025
−833
St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 22.5 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 2.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.8 points.
A population of 2,914,849, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,835 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor, MI and Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD.
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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 St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, Illinois vote in 2024?
In 2024, St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, Illinois voted Republican by 0.8 points (R+0.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,456,514 votes cast, 709,862 went Democratic and 721,453 went Republican.
When did St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, Illinois last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, Illinois voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, Illinois?
St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, Illinois has a population of 2,914,849 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, Illinois?
Median household income in St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, Illinois is $80,835 — above the national median of $80,734. The Illinois state median is $83,390.
What is the political history of St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, Illinois?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL, Illinois from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.
