St. Joseph · 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 · 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, 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
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 in St. Joseph: 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
The St. Joseph market spans Buchanan, DeKalb, and Andrew counties in northwest Missouri plus Doniphan County, Kansas. It gave the Democratic ticket a win as recently as 1992 (D+9.9) before moving to R+35.1 in 2016 and R+37.7 in 2024. German is the largest reported ancestry (23.2%, 2024 ACS 5-year).
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 market 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 market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Quincy-Hannibal-Keokuk and Ottumwa-Kirksville.
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In 2024, St. Joseph, 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, Missouri last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which St. Joseph, Missouri voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in St. Joseph, Missouri?
St. Joseph, 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, Missouri?
Median household income in St. Joseph, Missouri is $65,622 — below the national median of $80,734. The Missouri state median is $70,702.
What is the political history of St. Joseph, Missouri?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in St. Joseph, Missouri from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 22 went Republican.
