- Lead
- 8,405
- Total
- 12,667
- vs nation
- D+67.8
Missouri 74th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,435
- Total
- 15,013
- vs nation
- D+65.1
- Lead
- 11,209
- Total
- 16,186
- vs nation
- D+67.2
- Lead
- 11,492
- Total
- 16,329
- vs nation
- D+66.5
- Lead
- 13,206
- Total
- 17,967
- vs nation
- D+66.2
- Lead
- 11,203
- Total
- 16,381
- vs nation
- D+70.8
- Lead
- 9,339
- Total
- 14,426
- vs nation
- D+64.2
- Lead
- 8,423
- Total
- 13,662
- vs nation
- D+53.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+66.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 37,1672024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,097 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 12 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $46,7872024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 21.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 67.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+82.6 in 1880MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 73, MO · twin score 99.8
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 74th 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
91.3%
105 votes · D+82.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1884 · 87.5%
Republican
George H. W. Bush1988
21.6%
2,782 votes · D+56.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · 16.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
15,535votes
86.5% of the vote · D+73.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 13,855 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
3,200votes
14.3% of the vote · D+21.8 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 2,785 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
John Kerry2004
+70.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+68.4 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +67.8 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−11.3pts R vs U.S.
Place D+30.8 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · −17.6 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
With a 2024 presidential margin exceeding 66 points for Democrats, this district ranks among the most reliably blue constituencies in Missouri, likely anchored by dense urban population centers or a historically Democratic community base.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 82.6 points in 1880. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 66.4 points.
A population of 37,167, a 22% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $46,787 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 73 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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