- Lead
- 3,943
- Total
- 14,709
- vs nation
- D+28.3
Missouri 72nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,552
- Total
- 16,454
- vs nation
- D+23.2
- Lead
- 2,858
- Total
- 15,801
- vs nation
- D+16.0
- Lead
- 2,503
- Total
- 15,925
- vs nation
- D+11.9
- Lead
- 3,693
- Total
- 16,947
- vs nation
- D+14.5
- Lead
- 1,845
- Total
- 16,295
- vs nation
- D+13.8
- Lead
- 1,088
- Total
- 14,744
- vs nation
- D+6.9
- Lead
- 1,172
- Total
- 14,117
- vs nation
- R+0.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+26.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 38,3512024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,954 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 9.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $57,3252024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 53.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 25.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+27.7 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+26.5 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 19, PA · twin score 90.6
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 72nd 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
Joe Biden2020
62.7%
10,314 votes · D+27.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 62.4%
Republican
James G. Blaine1884
57.4%
66 votes · R+14.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 53.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
10,314votes
62.7% of the vote · D+27.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 10,203 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
9,010votes
28.5% of the vote · R+11.8 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 7,715 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
Kamala Harris2024
+28.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+26.8 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +23.2 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+26.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+6.8 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +16.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+26.8, this district ranks among the most reliably Democratic in Missouri, reflecting the dense urban concentration typical of heavily blue legislative seats in the state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.7 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 26.5 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.8 points.
A population of 38,351, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,325 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 19 and State House District 24.
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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