Springfield, MO · 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 Springfield, MO, 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
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Springfield, MO
Year
Total registered
2016
306,479
2018
298,535
2020
326,021
2022
325,014
2024
347,318
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+3,466 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +38,472 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Springfield, MO in Springfield, MO: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+973
2012
+2,034
2013
+2,289
2014
+1,288
2015
+2,135
2016
+646
2017
+2,718
2018
+2,996
2019
+2,737
2021
+5,497
2022
+4,973
2023
+3,292
2024
+3,428
2025
+3,466
Springfield's metro anchors Missouri's Bible Belt interior, delivering some of the state's widest Republican margins in federal races. Its large student population at Missouri State tempers turnout patterns without significantly shifting the partisan baseline.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 11.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 42.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 35.2 points.
A population of 486,785, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,064 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Knoxville, TN and Joplin, MO-KS.
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In 2024, Springfield, MO, Missouri voted Republican by 35.2 points (R+35.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 238,907 votes cast, 75,880 went Democratic and 159,917 went Republican.
When did Springfield, MO, Missouri last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Springfield, MO, Missouri voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Springfield, MO, Missouri?
Springfield, MO, Missouri has a population of 486,785 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Springfield, MO, Missouri?
Median household income in Springfield, MO, Missouri is $66,064 — below the national median of $80,734. The Missouri state median is $70,702.
What is the political history of Springfield, MO, Missouri?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Springfield, MO, Missouri from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 4 went Democratic and 30 went Republican.
