- Lead
- 6,112
- Total
- 12,534
- vs nation
- D+50.2
Missouri 22nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,581
- Total
- 15,046
- vs nation
- D+52.6
- Lead
- 8,480
- Total
- 14,982
- vs nation
- D+54.5
- Lead
- 9,334
- Total
- 15,771
- vs nation
- D+55.3
- Lead
- 11,057
- Total
- 17,456
- vs nation
- D+56.1
- Lead
- 9,154
- Total
- 15,721
- vs nation
- D+60.7
- Lead
- 8,173
- Total
- 13,845
- vs nation
- D+58.5
- Lead
- 7,269
- Total
- 12,510
- vs nation
- D+49.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+48.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 37,9332024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,529 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 15 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $47,7042024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 29.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 50.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+75.2 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 40, KY · twin score 98.0
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 22nd 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
87.6%
14,535 votes · D+75.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 84.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
34.3%
3,259 votes · D+31.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 32.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
14,535votes
87.6% of the vote · D+75.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 14,217 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
3,333votes
26.2% of the vote · D+47.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 3,311 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
+68.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+42.7 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +64.9 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−41.9pts R vs U.S.
Place D+61.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · −44.2 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+48.8, this district ranks among the most heavily Democratic constituencies in Missouri, likely anchored by dense urban population centers that consistently drive outsized margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.2 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 48.8 points.
A population of 37,933, a 29% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $47,704 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 40 and State House District 23.
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 22nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/29022/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.