- Lead
- 74
- Total
- 17,834
- vs nation
- D+1.1
Missouri 17th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 969
- Total
- 18,676
- vs nation
- D+0.7
- Lead
- 773
- Total
- 15,989
- vs nation
- R+6.9
- Lead
- 267
- Total
- 15,241
- vs nation
- R+5.6
- Lead
- 933
- Total
- 15,822
- vs nation
- R+1.4
- Lead
- 20
- Total
- 13,799
- vs nation
- D+2.3
- Lead
- 742
- Total
- 11,539
- vs nation
- D+5.9
- Lead
- 1,081
- Total
- 10,122
- vs nation
- D+2.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+0.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 38,4652024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,007 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 38.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $80,0692024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+74.5 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+33.1 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 36, AK · twin score 76.4
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 17th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Samuel J. Tilden1876
86.4%
450 votes · D+74.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Winfield S. Hancock, 1880 · 82.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
66.5%
4,427 votes · R+33.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 58.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
9,637votes
51.6% of the vote · D+5.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 8,728 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
8,802votes
49.4% of the vote · R+0.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 8,668 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
William J. Bryan1896
+70.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+64.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +68.8 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
+9.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+33.1 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +6.9 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | R | 39.7%4,947 | 60.3%7,528 | 12,475 |
| 2018 | R | 40.0%3,851 | 60.0%5,783 | 9,634 |
Missouri 17th State House District sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 74.5 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 33.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.4 points.
A population of 38,465, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,069 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 36 and State House District 2.
The state-house districts 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.
District research tools
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Missouri 17th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/29017/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.