Kansas City, MO-KS · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
66.1%
321,194 votes · D+32.6
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 64.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
63.4%
335,716 votes · R+27.8
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 58.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
559,895votes
51.3% of the vote · D+4.7
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 541,664 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
513,617votes
47.9% of the vote · D+2.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 508,524 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
+22.1pts D vs U.S.
Place R+4.1 · U.S. R+26.2
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · +19.7 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+6.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+2.3 · U.S. D+3.9
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +4.6 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Kansas City, MO-KS · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Kansas City, MO-KS, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2025R+6.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+2.6
Kansas City, MO-KS registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 9.2-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Kansas City, MO-KS
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2025 (partial)
647,650
206,257
248,965
182,495
9,933
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+5,170 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +36,428 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Kansas City, MO-KS in Kansas City, MO-KS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−2,726
2012
−1,033
2013
+1,827
2014
+1,361
2015
+1,629
2016
+6,849
2017
+8,513
2018
+5,211
2019
+2,437
2021
+1,284
2022
−1,426
2023
+2,861
2024
+4,471
2025
+5,170
The Kansas City, MO-KS metropolitan area has a presidential record spanning the 1892 through 2024 elections. Across that period its margin moved from D+34 in 1912, the strongest Democratic result in the record, to R+28 in 1972, the strongest Republican result. In 2024 the area's margin was D+3. The distance between the 1912 peak and the 1972 peak marks the full breadth of the shift documented in the record.
Kansas City, MO-KS is composed of 14 constituent counties, with Ray County, Jackson County, and Bates County among the largest. The area had a population of 2,218,142 in the 2024 ACS five-year estimate. Its median age was 38.0 in the same estimate. The presidential margins reported here are aggregated across all constituent counties and describe the area total rather than any single community.
The arc runs from a D+34 high in 1912 to an R+28 high in 1972, the two extremes in the 1892 through 2024 record. The most recent figure, D+3 in 2024, places the area near the center of that range. Measured across the full presidential record, the area moved from its strongest Democratic margin to its strongest Republican margin and then to a narrow Democratic result in the latest contest.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 27.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.6 points.
A population of 2,218,142, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,452 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN and Columbus, OH.
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The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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How did Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri vote in 2024?
In 2024, Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri voted Democratic by 2.6 points (D+2.6), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 1,073,160 votes cast, 541,664 went Democratic and 513,617 went Republican.
When did Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri voted Republican was 2016.
How many people live in Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri?
Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri has a population of 2,218,142 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri?
Median household income in Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri is $85,452 — above the national median of $80,734. The Missouri state median is $74,275.
What is the political history of Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 19 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
