- Lead
- 5,830
- Total
- 14,866
- vs nation
- D+40.7
Missouri 37th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,947
- Total
- 16,787
- vs nation
- D+36.9
- Lead
- 5,874
- Total
- 16,014
- vs nation
- D+34.6
- Lead
- 6,583
- Total
- 16,500
- vs nation
- D+36.0
- Lead
- 8,128
- Total
- 18,173
- vs nation
- D+37.5
- Lead
- 6,207
- Total
- 16,691
- vs nation
- D+39.6
- Lead
- 5,764
- Total
- 14,382
- vs nation
- D+39.6
- Lead
- 5,335
- Total
- 13,173
- vs nation
- D+32.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+39.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 37,7372024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,233 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 16.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,2752024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 41.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 41.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+61.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 26, MO · twin score 97.8
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 37th 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
80.8%
13,370 votes · D+61.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 76.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
47.4%
5,184 votes · D+5.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 45.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
13,370votes
80.8% of the vote · D+61.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 13,070 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
5,305votes
38.0% of the vote · D+23.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 5,271 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
+46.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+20.1 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +44.0 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
−23.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+30.5 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · −26.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Missouri 37th State House District sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 61.8 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 39.2 points.
A population of 37,737, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,275 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 76.
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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