- Lead
- 5,335
- Total
- 99,820
- vs nation
- R+3.9
Missouri 8th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,394
- Total
- 98,598
- vs nation
- R+12.0
- Lead
- 14,092
- Total
- 85,912
- vs nation
- R+18.5
- Lead
- 14,003
- Total
- 87,213
- vs nation
- R+19.9
- Lead
- 9,416
- Total
- 92,790
- vs nation
- R+17.4
- Lead
- 17,039
- Total
- 89,084
- vs nation
- R+16.7
- Lead
- 10,944
- Total
- 75,102
- vs nation
- R+15.1
- Lead
- 7,291
- Total
- 68,865
- vs nation
- R+19.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+5.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 178,1602024 5-year
- Population density
- 841 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 212 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $98,0182024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+23.8 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 36, KY · twin score 88.3
presidential history
Party record book
Missouri 8th 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
56.5%
41,863 votes · D+13.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 49.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
74.4%
52,543 votes · R+48.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 72.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
47,000votes
47.1% of the vote · R+5.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 44,553 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
53,902votes
66.5% of the vote · R+33.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 53,558 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
+4.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+23.8 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · −3.9 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
+34.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.9 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · +31.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Missouri 8th State Senate District sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 48.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.2 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.3 points.
A population of 178,160, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $98,018 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 36 and State Senate District 34.
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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Missouri 8th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/29008/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.