When was the last time Kansas or Missouri voted for a Democrat for president?
Donald Trump is set to become the 47th president of the United States after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday, Nov. 5’s general election.
Trump secured the White House with victories in battleground states like Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Early Wednesday morning, Wisconsin tipped the balance to Trump, pushing his tally of electoral votes to 277 — more than the 270 needed to win the presidency.
Trump also won Kansas and Missouri and their combined 16 electoral votes. He won both states in 2016 and 2020, continuing the long trend of the state voting in favor of the Republican candidate.
But how old is that trend? When was the last time Kansas picked the Democratic nominee in the presidential election? What about Missouri? Here’s the history.
Kansas
Kansas has voted for the Republican nominee in the last 15 presidential elections. The last Democrat to win the state was Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 election.
Johnson won the presidency in a landslide, defeating Republican nominee Barry M. Goldwater by winning 486 of 538 electoral votes.
After that, the state voted for Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Kansas-born Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney.
Missouri
Missouri has voted in favor of the Republican nominee in the last seven presidential elections. Bill Clinton was the last Democrat to win Missouri in 1996. He also won the state in his first election, in 1992.
Clinton defeated Dole in 1996 by winning 379 of 538 electoral votes and defeated George H.W. Bush in 1992 by claiming 370 electoral votes. Missouri had voted Republican in the three elections before 1992, voting for Reagan twice and George H.W. Bush once.
Barack Obama was close to winning Missouri in 2008. He lost to McCain by the slimmest of margins, 49.4% to 49.3%.
