From turnout to Trump, see 10 interesting stats from Kansas City area election results
Elections are a numbers game. But the results of the 2024 general election offer more insights than just which candidates and issues got a simple majority of the popular vote. They also reveal unexpected rifts over partisan issues, changing trends in voter turnout and much more.
We’ve compiled 10 interesting statistics that offer insight into the election’s results in the Kansas City area and beyond.
Five: The number of Missouri counties where the majority of voters supported Amendment 3 to restore abortion rights, but also favored the Donald Trump/JD Vance presidential ticket. The counties are Jackson (outside of Kansas City), Clay, Platte, Buchanan and St. Charles.
$180 million: The value of bonds that can now be sold by Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools in order to revitalize dilapidated school buildings in the district. Around 68% of voters supported the bond measure, which will not raise property taxes, after defeating a $420 million bond measure that would have raised property taxes earlier in 2024.
349: The number of votes by which the Democratic presidential ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won Shawnee County, Kansas, where Topeka is located, according to unofficial results.
Zero: The number of people of color elected to a statewide office in Missouri before the 2024 election. Vivek Malek, who won the race for state treasurer, is the first one.
53.95%: The voter turnout in the Kansas City Election Board’s jurisdiction during the 2024 election — the lowest it has seen since at least 1996, the earliest presidential election year for which turnout data is available online.
96: The number of years since Johnson County last elected a Democratic sheriff. Former Prairie Village police chief Byron Roberson just broke that streak, winning the position with 50.7% of the popular vote. Roberson is also the county’s first Black sheriff.
29: The number of counties and cities in Missouri that gave a majority of their votes to Proposition A, which will raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026 and require employers to allow workers to accrue paid sick leave.
100%: The portion of seats in Republican hands on the three-member Platte County Commission following Allyson Berberich’s win in District 1. She earned 53.52% of the vote, beating Democratic challenger Charles McDonald. Joe Vanover, another Republican, ran unopposed for the District 2 commissioner seat.
87.4%: The portion of voters in rural Wright County who voted for Trump. Voters in the south-central Missouri county showed the strongest support for the Republican presidential ticket out of any county in the state.
Wright County also showed the strongest opposition to Amendment 3, which restores abortion rights in Missouri, with only 20.4% of voters supporting it.
$13.75: Missouri’s new statewide minimum wage going into effect Jan. 1, 2025, due to the passage of Proposition A with 57.56% of the popular vote. Kansas’ minimum wage remains stagnant at $7.25 an hour, the minimum required by federal law.
Do you have more questions about the 2024 election results in Kansas or Missouri? Ask the Service Journalism team at kcq@kcstar.com.
This story was originally published November 12, 2024 at 2:06 PM.
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