- Lead
- 1,116
- Total
- 22,536
- vs nation
- D+6.4
Missouri 96th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 478
- Total
- 23,105
- vs nation
- R+2.4
- Lead
- 1,990
- Total
- 21,938
- vs nation
- R+11.2
- Lead
- 2,876
- Total
- 22,260
- vs nation
- R+16.8
- Lead
- 1,539
- Total
- 23,120
- vs nation
- R+13.9
- Lead
- 4,029
- Total
- 23,070
- vs nation
- R+15.0
- Lead
- 4,329
- Total
- 20,915
- vs nation
- R+21.2
- Lead
- 3,546
- Total
- 19,989
- vs nation
- R+26.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+5.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 36,6792024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,581 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 23.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $111,7472024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 88.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+5.0 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+47.6 in 1884MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 100, MO · twin score 89.7
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 96th 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
51.6%
11,630 votes · D+5.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 50.2%
Republican
James G. Blaine1884
73.6%
212 votes · R+47.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 70.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
11,630votes
51.6% of the vote · D+5.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 11,603 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
16,944votes
36.3% of the vote · R+24.4 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 14,541 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
+6.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+5.0 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +1.7 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+37.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+18.1 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +29.2 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%11,376 | 41.3%8,018 | 19,394 |
Missouri House District 96 bucks the state's dominant Republican lean, posting a modest but consistent Democratic margin in recent presidential voting — a pattern that often reflects urban or suburban population clusters within a heavily red state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 5.0 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 47.6 points in 1884. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.9 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.0 points.
A population of 36,679, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $111,747 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 100 and State House District 20.
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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Missouri 96th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/29096/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.