- Lead
- 3,468
- Total
- 15,472
- vs nation
- D+23.9
Missouri 36th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,221
- Total
- 16,877
- vs nation
- D+20.6
- Lead
- 3,231
- Total
- 15,877
- vs nation
- D+18.3
- Lead
- 3,706
- Total
- 16,351
- vs nation
- D+18.8
- Lead
- 5,068
- Total
- 17,833
- vs nation
- D+21.1
- Lead
- 3,291
- Total
- 16,595
- vs nation
- D+22.3
- Lead
- 3,366
- Total
- 14,100
- vs nation
- D+23.4
- Lead
- 3,276
- Total
- 12,869
- vs nation
- D+16.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+22.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 37,2272024 5-year
- Population density
- 972 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 38.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $59,6002024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 48.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 31.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+48.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+13.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 37, MO · twin score 96.0
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 36th 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
74.3%
11,611 votes · D+48.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 68.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
56.8%
6,570 votes · R+13.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 55.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
11,611votes
74.3% of the vote · D+48.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 11,373 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
6,760votes
47.4% of the vote · D+5.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 6,712 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
+27.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+1.7 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +27.0 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
−4.3pts R vs U.S.
Place D+11.8 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · −7.1 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+22.4, this district ranks among the most reliably Democratic constituencies in Missouri, suggesting a dense urban core or a concentration of college-educated and minority voters anchoring its lopsided results.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 13.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 22.4 points.
A population of 37,227, a 49% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,600 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 37 and State House District 28.
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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