Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL · 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
62.0%
30,513 votes · D+24.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 61.0%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
75.3%
53,211 votes · R+51.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 73.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
30,603votes
58.3% of the vote · D+17.2
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 30,513 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
53,211votes
75.3% of the vote · R+51.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 52,866 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
John W. Davis1924
+19.1pts D vs U.S.
Place R+6.1 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Harry S. Truman, 1948 · +17.2 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+53.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+49.4 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +52.8 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.
Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL · 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 Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton4Obama117,575 votes · 5 of 5 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Clinton4Sanders18,934 votes · 5 of 5 countiesprimary
Biden58,867 votes · 5 of 5 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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 Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL
Year
Total registered
2016
104,618
2018
100,751
2020
104,411
2022
100,060
2024
104,465
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+637 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −2,674 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL in Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−33
2012
−204
2013
−394
2014
−460
2015
−511
2016
−885
2017
−837
2018
−468
2019
−806
2021
+381
2022
+320
2023
+163
2024
+423
2025
+637
Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 24.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 51.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 51.6 points.
A population of 148,004, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,338 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS and Middlesborough-Corbin, KY.
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The combined metros 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.
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How did Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL, Missouri vote in 2024?
In 2024, Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL, Missouri voted Republican by 51.6 points (R+51.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 70,655 votes cast, 16,761 went Democratic and 53,211 went Republican.
When did Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL, Missouri last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL, Missouri voted Democratic was 1992.
How many people live in Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL, Missouri?
Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL, Missouri has a population of 148,004 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL, Missouri?
Median household income in Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL, Missouri is $64,338 — below the national median of $80,734. The Missouri state median is $83,390.
What is the political history of Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL, Missouri?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL, Missouri from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
