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Missouri's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 6 Democratic primary)

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Missouri's 7th Congressional District
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Democratic primary
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Election details
Filing deadline: March 26, 2024
Primary: August 6, 2024
General: November 5, 2024
How to vote
Poll times: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Voting in Missouri
Race ratings
Cook Political Report: Solid Republican
DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Republican
Inside Elections: Solid Republican
Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Republican
Ballotpedia analysis
U.S. Senate battlegrounds
U.S. House battlegrounds
Federal and state primary competitiveness
Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2024
See also
Missouri's 7th Congressional District
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A Democratic Party primary took place on August 6, 2024, in Missouri's 7th Congressional District to determine which Democratic candidate would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.

Missi Hesketh advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Missouri District 7.

All 435 seats were up for election. At the time of the election, Republicans had a 220 to 212 majority with three vacancies.[1] As of June 2024, 45 members of the U.S. House had announced they were not running for re-election. To read more about the U.S. House elections taking place this year, click here.

In the 2022 election in this district, the Republican candidate won 70.9%-26.8%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Donald Trump (R) would have defeated Joe Biden (D) 69.8%-28.4%.[2]

Candidate filing deadline Primary election General election
March 26, 2024
August 6, 2024
November 5, 2024


A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Missouri utilizes an open primary system, in which registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.[3][4][5]

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on Missouri's 7th Congressional District Democratic primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Republican primary and the general election, see the following pages:

Candidates and election results

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Missouri District 7

Missi Hesketh advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Missouri District 7 on August 6, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Missi Hesketh Candidate Connection
 
100.0
 
21,854

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 21,854
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Candidate profiles

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Missi Hesketh

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Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I was born outside of Chicago on the opposite end of 1971 from my sister. Our dad is a Vietnam veteran and that kind of set the tone for rather tumultuous formative years. But the experiences helped instill a tenacity in me that I exhibit in my will to make life better for those I serve. I moved to Forsyth, MO with my family in 1983. I worked two jobs in HS while participating in extracurriculars and maintaining Honor Roll. After graduating from FHS in 1990, I flunked out of Mizzou in one quick semester and entered the school of life. I worked in food service, clerical, and then finance before a forced transition post-9/11 steered me toward education. I have earned my A.A. -Business Administration, B.S. - Elementary Education, M.A. - Gifted Education, & Ed.S. - Special Education & Assessment. I am a mom to three wonderful humans. Sophia is in college for nursing and Leo is working toward video editing. Cole is set to graduate FHS in 2026. I understand the hard work that goes into being a single-parent while working full-time and also being a public servant. I want to ensure folks have access to all of the resources that make them feel supported. I am also the mayor of Forsyth. This is my seventh year of public service having also served on city council. Too often we hear "somebody should" or "they need to do something," and I'm grateful to be in a position to work toward getting things done."

Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.

We need to end the division in this country by setting an example at the highest levels. It is beyond time to return decency and decorum to Congress, and with that comes transparency, honesty, integrity, and doing the actual work. The 118th Congress has underperformed any Congress ever. The Missouri 7th has received nothing from the current Representative in the form of investment dollars that might actually make a difference in lives here. We deserve representation that yields results through hard work, negotiation, and compromise.

It is time to focus on issues that enhance lives in our district and stop fighting the same values issues that career politicians bring up every cycle in order to fire up their base. Abortion access, reproductive freedom, family planning, birth control - enough! We need to codify Roe and be done with the issue.. Republicans want smaller government yet want to control every aspect of womens lives. I am pro-choice. The current Representative is pro-life and would support a national abortion ban. He says he is pro-life yet when those who are forced to give birth due to rape, or unable to terminate an unplanned pregnancy, where is the support? We have no right making these very difficult decisions for others.

We need leaders willing to do the work to protect us and our way of life. This means protecting our natural resources and not cowtowing to donors to lift environmental protections. This means electing leaders who are not put into office via PACs and special interests. This means electing leaders not owned by the NRA who will finally get some common sense gun laws in place to stop the killing of innocents at schools, stores, parades, churches. No one is coming for your guns, we just want to make sure you lock your piece up so the five-year-old doesn't get accidentally shot by the six-year-old, or that the individual in mental distress can't obtain an AR-15 and an hour later show up at a school. Leaders need to protect their people.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Missouri District 7 in 2024.

Voting information

See also: Voting in Missouri

Election information in Missouri: Aug. 6, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

  • In-person: July 10, 2024
  • By mail: Postmarked by July 10, 2024
  • Online: July 10, 2024

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

No

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

  • In-person: Aug. 5, 2024
  • By mail: Received by July 24, 2024
  • Online: N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

  • In-person: Aug. 6, 2024
  • By mail: Received by Aug. 6, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

N/A

What were the early voting start and end dates?

July 23, 2024 to Aug. 5, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

6:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (CST)


Campaign finance

Name Party Receipts* Disbursements** Cash on hand Date
Missi Hesketh Democratic Party $47,169 $37,515 $5,138 As of January 30, 2025

Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee."
** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

  • District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
  • Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
  • Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
  • State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.


Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

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See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Missouri.

Missouri U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Office Districts/
offices 		Seats Open seats Candidates Possible primaries Contested Democratic primaries Contested Republican primaries % of contested primaries Incumbents in contested primaries % of incumbents in contested primaries
2024 8 8 1 43 16 6 6 75.0% 5 71.4%
2022 8 8 2 57 16 6 8 87.5% 6 100.0%
2020 8 8 0 40 16 4 6 62.5% 6 75.0%
2018 8 8 0 39 16 5 6 68.8% 5 62.5%
2016 8 8 0 45 16 5 8 81.3% 8 100.0%
2014 8 8 0 36 16 4 6 62.5% 5 62.5%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Missouri in 2024. Information below was calculated on June 4, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Forty-three candidates ran for Missouri’s eight U.S. House districts, including 16 Democrats and 27 Republicans. That's an average of 5.38 candidates per district. That’s lower than the 7.13 candidates per district in 2022 but more than the 5.00 in 2020.

The 3rd Congressional District was the only open district. That’s one less than in 2022 when two seats were open. There were no open seats in 2020, 2018, 2016, and 2014.

Incumbent Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-03) did not run for re-election because he retired from public office.

Two congressional districts—the 1st and the 3rd—were tied for the most candidates running in a district in 2024. Four Democrats and five Republicans ran in the 1st Congressional District, and two Democrats and seven Republicans ran in the 3rd Congressional District.

Twelve primaries—six Democratic and six Republican—were contested in 2024. Between 2022 and 2014, there was an average of 11.6 contested primaries per year.

Five incumbents—one Democrat and four Republicans—were in contested primaries tin 2024, tying with 2018 and 2014 for the fewest this decade.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all eight districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was R+24. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 24 percentage points more Republican than the national average. This made Missouri's 7th the 19th most Republican district nationally.[6]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Missouri's 7th based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden Democratic Party Donald Trump Republican Party
28.4% 69.8%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district.[7] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline Democratic Party Republican Baseline Republican Party Difference
27.2 69.6 R+42.4

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Missouri, 2020

Missouri presidential election results (1900-2020)

  • 14 Democratic wins
  • 17 Republican wins
Year 1900 1904 1908 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Winning Party D R R D D R R R D D D D D R D D D R R D R R R D D R R R R R R
See also: Party control of Missouri state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Missouri's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Missouri
Party U.S. Senate U.S. House Total
Democratic 0 2 2
Republican 2 6 8
Independent 0 0 0
Vacancies 0 0 0
Total 2 8 10

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Missouri's top four state executive offices as May 2024.

State executive officials in Missouri, May 2024
Office Officeholder
Governor Republican Party Mike Parson
Lieutenant Governor Republican Party Mike Kehoe
Secretary of State Republican Party Jay Ashcroft
Attorney General Republican Party Andrew Bailey

State legislature

Missouri State Senate

Party As of February 2024
     Democratic Party 10
     Republican Party 24
     Other 0
     Vacancies 0
Total 34

Missouri House of Representatives

Party As of February 2024
     Democratic Party 51
     Republican Party 111
     Other 0
     Vacancies 1
Total 163

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

Missouri Party Control: 1992-2024
Eight years of Democratic trifectas  •  Twelve years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Governor R D D D D D D D D D D D D R R R R D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R
Senate D D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
House D D D D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Missouri in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Missouri, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State Office Party Signatures required Filing fee Filing deadline Source
Missouri U.S. House Ballot-qualified party N/A $300.00 3/26/2024 Source
Missouri U.S. House Unaffiliated 2% of votes cast for the office in the last election, or 10,000, whichever is less N/A 7/29/2024 Source

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ A majority in the U.S. House when there are no vacancies is 218 seats.
  2. ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2020 presidential results by congressional district, for new and old districts," accessed September 15, 2022
  3. ↑ NCSL,"State Primary Election Types," accessed April 4, 2023
  4. ↑ Ballotpedia research conducted December 26, 2013, through January 3, 2014, researching and analyzing various state websites and codes.
  5. ↑ John R. Ashcroft Missouri Secretary of State,"Frequently Asked Questions," accessed April 4, 2023
  6. ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed January 10, 2024
  7. ↑ Inside Elections, "Methodology: Inside Elections’ Baseline by Congressional District," December 8, 2023


Missouri's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators
Josh Hawley (R)
Eric Schmitt (R)
Representatives
District 1
District 2
District 3
Bob Onder (R)
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
District 8
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Democratic Party (2)


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