- Lead
- 7,618
- Total
- 12,410
- vs nation
- D+62.9
Missouri 73rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,175
- Total
- 14,482
- vs nation
- D+58.9
- Lead
- 9,454
- Total
- 15,662
- vs nation
- D+58.3
- Lead
- 9,586
- Total
- 15,848
- vs nation
- D+56.6
- Lead
- 11,164
- Total
- 17,318
- vs nation
- D+57.2
- Lead
- 9,268
- Total
- 15,939
- vs nation
- D+60.6
- Lead
- 7,610
- Total
- 14,115
- vs nation
- D+53.4
- Lead
- 6,912
- Total
- 13,343
- vs nation
- D+43.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+61.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 37,5372024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,317 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 16.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $47,2392024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 22.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 63.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+74.2 in 1880MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 74, MO · twin score 99.8
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 73rd 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
Winfield S. Hancock1880
87.1%
108 votes · D+74.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1884 · 84.3%
Republican
George H. W. Bush1988
28.1%
3,607 votes · D+43.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · 21.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
14,184votes
81.9% of the vote · D+64.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 12,656 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
4,182votes
18.2% of the vote · D+13.9 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 3,617 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
+62.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+61.4 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +60.6 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−7.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+27.3 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · −11.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Missouri 73rd State House District sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 74.2 points in 1880. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 61.4 points.
A population of 37,537, a 23% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $47,239 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 74 and State House District 66.
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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