Missouri Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Former status as a political bellwether=== {{Main|Missouri bellwether}} {{further|Political party strength in Missouri}} Missouri was widely regarded as a bellwether in American politics, often making it a [[swing state]]. The state had a longer stretch of supporting the winning presidential candidate than any other state, having voted with the nation in every election from 1904 to 2004 with a single exception: [[1956 United States presidential election|1956]] when Democratic candidate [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] of neighboring Illinois lost the election despite carrying Missouri. However, in recent years, areas of the state outside Kansas City, St. Louis, and Columbia have shifted heavily to the right, making Missouri a safe Republican state on the whole. The last Democrat to win the state's electoral votes was [[1996 United States presidential election in Missouri|Bill Clinton in 1996]]. It rejected Democrat [[Barack Obama]] of neighboring Illinois in both of his successful campaigns in 2008 and 2012. Missouri voted for [[Mitt Romney]] by nearly 10% in 2012 and voted for [[Donald Trump]] by over 18% in 2016 and 15% in 2020. On October 24, 2012, there were 4,190,936 registered voters.<ref name="registered">{{cite web |url=http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/registeredvoters.asp?rvmID=0012 |title=Registered Voters in Missouri 2012 |publisher=Missouri Secretary of State |date=October 24, 2012 |access-date=October 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025023240/http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/registeredvoters.asp?rvmID=0012 |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> At the state level, both Democratic Senator [[Claire McCaskill]] and Democratic Governor [[Jay Nixon]] were re-elected. On November 3, 2020, there were 4,318,758 registered voters, with 3,026,028 voting (70.1%).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/ElectionResultStatistics/Nov2020OfficialVoterTurnout.pdf |title=Voter Turnout Report: 2020 General Election |publisher=Missouri Secretary of State |date=December 8, 2020 |access-date=June 14, 2021 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> By this time, the state had favored more Republican candidates for federal offices. The offices held by Democratic party officials a decade before were subsequently held by Republican Senator [[Josh Hawley]] and Republican Governor [[Mike Parson]]. Missouri's accuracy rate for the last 29 presidential elections is now 89.66%. This percentage is on par with that of Ohio, which has voted for the winner of every presidential election since 1896, except in [[1944 United States presidential election|1944]], [[1960 United States presidential election|1960]] and [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]], with no Republican ever winning the White House without the state. Nevada has been carried by the winner of every presidential election since 1912, with only two exceptions: [[1976 United States presidential election|1976]] and [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]]. New Mexico has voted for the winner of every presidential election since its statehood in 1912, except in [[1976 United States presidential election|1976]], [[2000 United States presidential election|2000]] and [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]]. {{PresHead|place=Missouri|whig=yes|source=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=2008&fips=29&f=1&off=0&elect=0&type=state|title=Presidential General Election Results Comparison—Missouri|publisher=US Election Atlas|access-date=December 16, 2020|author=Leip, David}}</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2020|Republican|1,718,736|1,253,014|58,998|Missouri}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|1,594,511|1,071,068|162,687|Missouri}} {{PresRow|2012|Republican|1,482,440|1,223,796|57,453|Missouri}} {{PresRow|2008|Republican|1,445,814|1,441,911|41,386|Missouri}} {{PresRow|2004|Republican|1,455,713|1,259,171|16,480|Missouri}} {{PresRow|2000|Republican|1,189,924|1,111,138|58,830|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1996|Democratic|890,016|1,025,935|242,114|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1992|Democratic|811,159|1,053,873|526,533|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1988|Republican|1,084,953|1,001,619|6,656|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|1,274,188|848,583|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1980|Republican|1,074,181|931,182|94,461|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1976|Democratic|927,443|998,387|27,770|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|1,154,058|698,531|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1968|Republican|811,932|791,444|206,126|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|653,535|1,164,344|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1960|Democratic|962,221|972,201|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1956|Democratic|914,289|918,273|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|959,429|929,830|2,803|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1948|Democratic|655,039|917,315|6,274|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1944|Democratic|761,524|807,804|3,146|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1940|Democratic|871,009|958,476|4,244|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|697,891|1,111,043|19,701|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|564,713|1,025,406|19,775|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|834,080|662,562|4,079|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1924|Republican|648,486|572,753|86,719|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|727,162|574,799|30,839|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1916|Democratic|369,339|398,032|19,398|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1912|Democratic|207,821|330,746|159,999|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1908|Republican|347,203|346,574|22,150|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1904|Republican|321,449|296,312|26,100|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1900|Democratic|314,092|351,922|17,642|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1896|Democratic|304,940|363,667|5,299|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1892|Democratic|227,646|268,400|45,537|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1888|Democratic|236,252|261,943|23,165|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1884|Democratic|203,081|236,023|2,164|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1880|Democratic|153,647|208,600|35,042|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1876|Democratic|145,027|202,086|3,497|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1872|Democratic|119,196|151,434|2,429|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1868|Republican|86,860|65,628|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1864|Republican|72,750|31,596|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1860|Democratic|17,028|58,801|89,734|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1856|Democratic|0|57,964|48,522|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1852|Democratic|29,984|38,817|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1848|Democratic|32,671|40,077|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1844|Democratic|31,200|41,322|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1840|Democratic|22,954|29,969|0|Missouri}} {{PresFoot|1836|Democratic|7,337|10,995|0|Missouri}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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