St. Joseph, 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
64.0%
31,578 votes · D+28.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 60.7%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
68.2%
36,797 votes · R+37.8
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 67.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
37,956votes
58.6% of the vote · D+17.6
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 34,391 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
36,797votes
68.2% of the vote · R+37.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 36,509 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
+14.7pts D vs U.S.
Place R+11.5 · U.S. R+26.2
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +12.4 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+39.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.7 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +37.2 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.
St. Joseph, 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 St. Joseph, 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+53.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+37.8
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 16 points more Democratic than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in St. Joseph, MO-KS
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2025 (partial)
5,032
531
3,212
1,261
28
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−165 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −8,727 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in St. Joseph, MO-KS in St. Joseph, MO-KS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−47
2012
−234
2013
−546
2014
−883
2015
−944
2016
−535
2017
−659
2018
−607
2019
−1,116
2021
−620
2022
−1,053
2023
−1,298
2024
−20
2025
−165
St. Joseph spans the Missouri-Kansas border and has trended toward Republican margins in presidential cycles, driven by a blue-collar workforce and rural hinterlands that increasingly outweigh its small urban Democratic base.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 37.8 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.8 points.
A population of 120,012, a 83% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,622 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Farmington, MO and Centralia, IL.
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In 2024, St. Joseph, MO-KS, Missouri voted Republican by 37.8 points (R+37.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 53,981 votes cast, 16,406 went Democratic and 36,797 went Republican.
When did St. Joseph, MO-KS, Missouri last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which St. Joseph, MO-KS, Missouri voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in St. Joseph, MO-KS, Missouri?
St. Joseph, MO-KS, Missouri has a population of 120,012 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in St. Joseph, MO-KS, Missouri?
Median household income in St. Joseph, MO-KS, Missouri is $65,622 — below the national median of $80,734. The Missouri state median is $74,275.
What is the political history of St. Joseph, MO-KS, Missouri?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in St. Joseph, MO-KS, Missouri from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 22 went Republican.
