- Lead
- 3,489
- Total
- 20,381
- vs nation
- R+15.6
Missouri 65th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,627
- Total
- 21,021
- vs nation
- R+21.7
- Lead
- 5,181
- Total
- 19,729
- vs nation
- R+28.4
- Lead
- 3,821
- Total
- 18,116
- vs nation
- R+24.9
- Lead
- 1,819
- Total
- 18,351
- vs nation
- R+17.2
- Lead
- 2,831
- Total
- 15,863
- vs nation
- R+15.4
- Lead
- 1,810
- Total
- 12,488
- vs nation
- R+15.0
- Lead
- 622
- Total
- 9,929
- vs nation
- R+14.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+17.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 36,7692024 5-year
- Population density
- 240 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 153 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $91,2102024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+29.7 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.4 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 103, MO · twin score 96.6
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 65th 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. Roosevelt1932
64.0%
665 votes · D+29.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 61.3%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
73.2%
4,639 votes · R+46.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 72.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
8,501votes
40.4% of the vote · R+17.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 8,309 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
12,128votes
57.7% of the vote · R+17.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 11,814 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
Al Smith1928
+14.3pts D vs U.S.
Place R+3.2 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +12.0 pts
Republican
Charles E. Hughes1916
+37.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.0 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +33.8 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | R | 41.2%6,166 | 58.8%8,794 | 14,960 |
Missouri 65th State House District sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 46.4 points in 1984. The 2024 margin was 17.1 points.
A population of 36,769, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $91,210 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 103 and State House District 64.
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 65th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/29065/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.