- Lead
- 76
- Total
- 18,510
- vs nation
- D+1.9
Missouri 136th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 118
- Total
- 17,780
- vs nation
- R+5.1
- Lead
- 2,023
- Total
- 17,718
- vs nation
- R+13.5
- Lead
- 1,248
- Total
- 17,324
- vs nation
- R+11.1
- Lead
- 259
- Total
- 18,805
- vs nation
- R+5.9
- Lead
- 1,305
- Total
- 17,043
- vs nation
- R+5.2
- Lead
- 161
- Total
- 14,118
- vs nation
- R+1.7
- Lead
- 849
- Total
- 13,599
- vs nation
- R+2.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+0.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 37,4482024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,416 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 15.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $58,1752024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 82.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+29.8 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+25.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 34, MO · twin score 86.4
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 136th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
64.1%
5,008 votes · D+28.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 63.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
62.7%
5,658 votes · R+25.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 59.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
9,343votes
49.7% of the vote · D+1.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 9,151 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2016
9,125votes
51.5% of the vote · R+11.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 9,102 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 W. Davis1924
+38.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+13.4 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +27.9 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+13.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+11.4 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +12.3 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of just 0.4 points, Missouri House District 136 sits at the razor's edge of partisan balance, making it unusually competitive for a state that has trended decisively in one direction statewide.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.8 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 25.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.4 points.
A population of 37,448, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,175 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 34 and State House District 70.
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 136th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/29136/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.