- Lead
- 9,867
- Total
- 12,466
- vs nation
- D+80.6
Missouri 79th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,771
- Total
- 15,587
- vs nation
- D+77.5
- Lead
- 12,594
- Total
- 15,584
- vs nation
- D+78.7
- Lead
- 14,404
- Total
- 17,001
- vs nation
- D+80.9
- Lead
- 16,201
- Total
- 18,999
- vs nation
- D+78.0
- Lead
- 13,794
- Total
- 16,828
- vs nation
- D+84.4
- Lead
- 11,407
- Total
- 14,314
- vs nation
- D+79.2
- Lead
- 10,844
- Total
- 13,978
- vs nation
- D+69.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+79.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 36,6542024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,091 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $49,2322024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 35.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 53.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+85.3 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 78, MO · twin score 99.7
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 79th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1880) · 37 presidential cycles · 37 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
92.3%
17,530 votes · D+85.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 91.9%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
36.9%
8,940 votes · D+20.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 34.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
34,295votes
81.5% of the vote · D+65.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Adlai Stevenson, 1952 · 31,074 votes
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
9,168votes
22.9% of the vote · D+54.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 8,940 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
+84.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+82.0 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +83.3 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−18.6pts R vs U.S.
Place D+38.1 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · −32.1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 83.8%11,055 | 16.2%2,141 | 13,196 |
| 2020 | D | 81.9%13,310 | 18.1%2,945 | 16,255 |
Missouri 79th State House District sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 85.3 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 79.2 points.
A population of 36,654, a 35% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,232 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 78 and State House District 84.
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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