- Lead
- 5,465
- Total
- 8,022
- vs nation
- D+69.6
Missouri 23rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,664
- Total
- 9,986
- vs nation
- D+72.3
- Lead
- 7,897
- Total
- 10,008
- vs nation
- D+76.8
- Lead
- 8,631
- Total
- 10,580
- vs nation
- D+77.7
- Lead
- 10,051
- Total
- 11,848
- vs nation
- D+77.6
- Lead
- 8,600
- Total
- 10,424
- vs nation
- D+85.0
- Lead
- 7,523
- Total
- 9,391
- vs nation
- D+79.6
- Lead
- 6,553
- Total
- 8,517
- vs nation
- D+68.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+68.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 36,8352024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,797 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 9.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $34,2962024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 17.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 50.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 24.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+96.2 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 30, KY · twin score 98.5
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 23rd 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
97.5%
230 votes · D+96.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1884 · 95.7%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
15.9%
782 votes · D+64.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 15.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
11,151votes
94.2% of the vote · D+88.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 10,934 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,221votes
15.2% of the vote · D+68.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,103 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
+96.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+70.3 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +95.4 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−54.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+73.9 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · −62.5 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Missouri 23rd State House District sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 96.2 points in 1876. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 68.1 points.
A population of 36,835, a 17% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $34,296 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 30 and State House District 22.
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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