- Lead
- 9,969
- Total
- 13,828
- vs nation
- D+73.6
Missouri 27th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,803
- Total
- 16,544
- vs nation
- D+72.9
- Lead
- 12,452
- Total
- 16,103
- vs nation
- D+75.2
- Lead
- 13,661
- Total
- 16,935
- vs nation
- D+76.8
- Lead
- 15,812
- Total
- 18,977
- vs nation
- D+76.0
- Lead
- 13,540
- Total
- 16,839
- vs nation
- D+82.9
- Lead
- 11,814
- Total
- 14,959
- vs nation
- D+78.5
- Lead
- 10,423
- Total
- 13,688
- vs nation
- D+67.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+72.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 36,6552024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,305 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 15.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $51,8862024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 28.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 56.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+95.3 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 26, MO · twin score 98.9
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 27th 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
97.2%
519 votes · D+95.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Winfield S. Hancock, 1880 · 95.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
17.3%
1,600 votes · D+65.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 16.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
17,719votes
94.2% of the vote · D+88.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 17,339 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,823votes
13.2% of the vote · D+72.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,713 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
+97.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+70.8 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +92.9 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−50.6pts R vs U.S.
Place D+70.2 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · −62.6 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Missouri 27th State House District sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.3 points in 1876. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 72.1 points.
A population of 36,655, a 29% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $51,886 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 26 and State House District 42.
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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