- Lead
- 4,226
- Total
- 17,248
- vs nation
- D+26.0
Missouri 87th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,053
- Total
- 18,073
- vs nation
- D+18.0
- Lead
- 1,854
- Total
- 17,152
- vs nation
- D+8.7
- Lead
- 1,402
- Total
- 17,258
- vs nation
- D+4.3
- Lead
- 2,606
- Total
- 18,197
- vs nation
- D+7.0
- Lead
- 644
- Total
- 17,723
- vs nation
- D+6.1
- Lead
- 49
- Total
- 16,000
- vs nation
- R+0.8
- Lead
- 214
- Total
- 15,432
- vs nation
- R+7.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+24.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 36,6412024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,290 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 28.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $88,0842024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 61.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+24.5 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+31.7 in 1884MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 71, MO · twin score 91.1
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 87th 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
Kamala Harris2024
61.4%
10,584 votes · D+24.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 60.3%
Republican
James G. Blaine1884
65.8%
133 votes · R+31.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 60.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
10,889votes
60.3% of the vote · D+22.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 10,584 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
10,625votes
29.2% of the vote · R+14.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 9,123 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
+26.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+24.5 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +18.0 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+26.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+7.2 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +19.8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 58.7%11,364 | 41.3%8,009 | 19,373 |
Missouri 87th State House District sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 24.5 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 31.7 points in 1884. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.5 points.
A population of 36,641, a 61% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,084 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 71 and State House District 99.
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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