Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-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. Roosevelt1932
61.8%
40,190 votes · D+25.1
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · 58.4%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
75.0%
77,081 votes · R+51.4
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 74.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
42,303votes
57.3% of the vote · D+15.3
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 40,190 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
77,081votes
75.0% of the vote · R+51.4
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 75,159 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
William J. Bryan1896
+24.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+17.9 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +13.1 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+54.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+50.1 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +54.2 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.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-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 Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-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.
Where a cell reads All others, no named candidate led — the source’s residual bucket did. That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes. It is a total, not a person, so it carries no candidate colour.
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 · 2026R+30.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+51.4
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 21 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2025 (partial)
15,617
2,807
7,717
4,917
176
2026 (partial)
18,634
4,458
10,197
3,828
151
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+1,290 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +2,576 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS in Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−3,046
2012
−192
2013
−285
2014
−421
2015
−161
2016
−494
2017
+24
2018
−186
2019
+226
2021
+1,464
2022
+1,292
2023
+1,435
2024
+1,630
2025
+1,290
Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 25.1 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 52.1 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 51.4 points.
A population of 233,967, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,493 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Middlesborough-Corbin, KY and Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL.
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How did Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS, Missouri vote in 2024?
In 2024, Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS, Missouri voted Republican by 51.4 points (R+51.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 102,799 votes cast, 24,291 went Democratic and 77,081 went Republican.
When did Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS, Missouri last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS, Missouri voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS, Missouri?
Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS, Missouri has a population of 233,967 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS, Missouri?
Median household income in Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS, Missouri is $60,493 — below the national median of $80,734. The Missouri state median is $74,275.
What is the political history of Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS, Missouri?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS, Missouri from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 25 went Republican.