Springfield, MO · 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
58.2%
105,619 votes · D+17.6
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · 55.5%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
74.4%
404,149 votes · R+49.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 73.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
173,106votes
35.4% of the vote · R+27.5
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 151,788 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
404,149votes
74.4% of the vote · R+49.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 387,129 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
+18.3pts D vs U.S.
Place R+6.9 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · +17.6 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+52.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.0 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +51.7 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.
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.
Sanders20Clinton1172,093 votes · 31 of 31 countiesprimary
Biden3171,312 votes · 31 of 31 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.
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
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Springfield, MO
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
626,797
2018
707,546
2020
758,152
2022
753,959
2024
793,949
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+8,359 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +77,213 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Springfield, MO in Springfield, MO: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+210
2012
+211
2013
+1,649
2014
−169
2015
+1,851
2016
+1,122
2017
+4,902
2018
+6,345
2019
+6,427
2021
+15,015
2022
+13,887
2023
+10,046
2024
+7,358
2025
+8,359
Springfield's media market spans the deeply Republican Missouri Ozarks while absorbing Missouri State and Drury University enrollments, creating a rare college-town counterweight within an otherwise lopsided regional electorate.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 17.6 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 49.9 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 1.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 49.9 points.
A population of 1,125,067, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,820 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Joplin-Pittsburg and Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg.
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In 2024, Springfield, MO, Missouri voted Republican by 49.9 points (R+49.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 543,416 votes cast, 132,846 went Democratic and 404,149 went Republican.
When did Springfield, MO, Missouri last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Springfield, MO, Missouri voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Springfield, MO, Missouri?
Springfield, MO, Missouri has a population of 1,125,067 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 $59,820 — below the national median of $80,734. The Missouri state median is $60,773.
What is the political history of Springfield, MO, Missouri?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Springfield, MO, Missouri from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 5 went Democratic and 29 went Republican.