- Lead
- 38,812
- Total
- 79,174
- vs nation
- D+50.5
Missouri 7th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 42,241
- Total
- 84,280
- vs nation
- D+45.7
- Lead
- 33,922
- Total
- 76,555
- vs nation
- D+42.2
- Lead
- 37,711
- Total
- 78,662
- vs nation
- D+44.1
- Lead
- 45,578
- Total
- 86,701
- vs nation
- D+45.3
- Lead
- 36,200
- Total
- 79,000
- vs nation
- D+48.3
- Lead
- 33,085
- Total
- 68,878
- vs nation
- D+47.5
- Lead
- 30,009
- Total
- 63,979
- vs nation
- D+38.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+49.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 176,4112024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,387 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 73.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $68,7722024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 58.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 13.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+67.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 46, IN · twin score 95.8
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 7th State Senate 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. Roosevelt1936
83.8%
67,022 votes · D+67.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 81.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
42.1%
20,988 votes · D+15.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 40.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
67,022votes
83.8% of the vote · D+67.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 65,607 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
21,432votes
33.1% of the vote · D+33.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 21,293 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
James M. Cox1920
+56.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+29.9 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +52.6 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
−32.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+39.5 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −32.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Missouri 7th State Senate District sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 67.9 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 49.0 points.
A population of 176,411, a 58% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,772 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 46 and State Senate District 46.
The state-senate 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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