- Lead
- 9,169
- Total
- 18,074
- vs nation
- R+49.3
Missouri 162nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,588
- Total
- 16,663
- vs nation
- R+56.0
- Lead
- 8,746
- Total
- 15,715
- vs nation
- R+57.7
- Lead
- 6,874
- Total
- 14,484
- vs nation
- R+51.3
- Lead
- 6,066
- Total
- 15,465
- vs nation
- R+46.5
- Lead
- 6,898
- Total
- 14,601
- vs nation
- R+44.8
- Lead
- 5,003
- Total
- 11,952
- vs nation
- R+42.4
- Lead
- 2,846
- Total
- 10,682
- vs nation
- R+35.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+50.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 36,6302024 5-year
- Population density
- 261 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 140 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $71,1672024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 83.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+11.6 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+55.7 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 160, MO · twin score 97.5
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 162nd 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
55.1%
5,050 votes · D+11.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · 55.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
77.4%
7,570 votes · R+54.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 75.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
5,754votes
53.7% of the vote · D+8.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 5,288 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
13,499votes
74.7% of the vote · R+50.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 12,475 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
William J. Bryan1896
+17.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+11.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +5.7 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+57.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+55.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +56.0 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 exceeding 50 points, District 162 sits among the most lopsided state house seats in Missouri, reflecting a rural or exurban electorate where statewide competitive races rarely materialize.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 11.6 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 55.7 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.8 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 50.7 points.
A population of 36,630, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,167 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 160 and State House District 130.
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 162nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/29162/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.