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Missouri's 1st Congressional District
Missouri's 1st Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives is represented by Wesley Bell (D).
As of the 2020 Census, Missouri representatives represented an average of 770,035 residents. After the 2010 Census, each member represented 751,435 residents.
Elections
See also: Missouri's 1st Congressional District election, 2030
There are no official candidates yet for this election.
See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, 2028
There are no official candidates yet for this election.
See also: Missouri's 1st Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
General election for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Incumbent Wesley Bell (D) and Cori Bush (D) are running in the general election for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on November 3, 2026.
Candidate | ||
 | Wesley Bell (D) | |
 | Cori Bush (D) | |
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See also: Missouri's 1st Congressional District election, 2024
General election
General election for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Wesley Bell (D) defeated Andrew Jones Jr. (R), Rochelle Riggins (L), Don Fitz (G), and Blake Ashby (Better Party) in the general election for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Wesley Bell (D) | 75.9 | 233,312 |
 | Andrew Jones Jr. (R) | 18.4 | 56,453 | |
 | Rochelle Riggins (L) | 3.3 | 10,070 | |
 | Don Fitz (G) | 1.7 | 5,151 | |
 | Blake Ashby (Better Party) | 0.7 | 2,279 | |
| Total votes: 307,265 | |||
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Democratic primary
Democratic primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Wesley Bell (D) defeated incumbent Cori Bush (D), Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D), and Ron Harshaw (D) in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Wesley Bell | 51.1 | 63,521 |
| | Cori Bush | 45.6 | 56,723 | |
 | Maria Chappelle-Nadal | 2.6 | 3,279 | |
 | Ron Harshaw | 0.6 | 735 | |
| Total votes: 124,258 | |||
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Republican primary
Republican primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Andrew Jones Jr. (R) defeated Stan Hall (R), Michael J. Hebron Sr. (R), Laura Mitchell-Riley (R), and Timothy Gartin (R) in the Republican primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Andrew Jones Jr. | 26.9 | 4,209 |
 | Stan Hall | 25.6 | 4,008 | |
 | Michael J. Hebron Sr. | 20.7 | 3,247 | |
 | Laura Mitchell-Riley | 20.5 | 3,215 | |
 | Timothy Gartin | 6.4 | 996 | |
| Total votes: 15,675 | |||
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Libertarian Party primary
Libertarian primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Rochelle Riggins (L) advanced from the Libertarian Party primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rochelle Riggins | 100.0 | 272 |
| Total votes: 272 | |||
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See also: Missouri's 1st Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Incumbent Cori Bush (D) defeated Andrew Jones Jr. (R) and George Zsidisin (L) in the general election for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cori Bush (D) | 72.9 | 160,999 |
| | Andrew Jones Jr. (R) | 24.3 | 53,767 | |
 | George Zsidisin (L) | 2.8 | 6,192 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0% | 7 | ||
| Total votes: 220,965 | |||
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Democratic primary
Democratic primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Incumbent Cori Bush (D) defeated Steve Roberts (D), Michael Daniels (D), Ron Harshaw (D), and Earl Childress (D) in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cori Bush | 69.5 | 65,326 |
 | Steve Roberts | 26.6 | 25,015 | |
| Michael Daniels | 1.8 | 1,683 | ||
| | Ron Harshaw | 1.1 | 1,065 | |
 | Earl Childress | 1.0 | 929 | |
| Total votes: 94,018 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- David Koehr (D)
Republican primary
Republican primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Andrew Jones Jr. (R) defeated Steven Jordan (R) and Laura Mitchell-Riley (R) in the Republican primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Andrew Jones Jr. | 42.4 | 6,937 |
 | Steven Jordan | 31.5 | 5,153 | |
| | Laura Mitchell-Riley | 26.1 | 4,260 | |
| Total votes: 16,350 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- James Snider (R)
Libertarian Party primary
Libertarian primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1
George Zsidisin (L) advanced from the Libertarian Party primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | George Zsidisin | 100.0 | 206 |
| Total votes: 206 | |||
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See also: Missouri's 1st Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Cori Bush (D) defeated Anthony Rogers (R), Alex Furman (L), and Martin Baker (Independent) in the general election for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cori Bush (D) | 78.8 | 249,087 |
 | Anthony Rogers (R) | 19.0 | 59,940 | |
 | Alex Furman (L) | 2.1 | 6,766 | |
 | Martin Baker (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.1 | 378 | |
| Total votes: 316,171 | |||
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Democratic primary
Democratic primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Cori Bush (D) defeated incumbent William Lacy Clay (D) and Katherine Bruckner (D) in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cori Bush | 48.5 | 73,274 |
 | William Lacy Clay | 45.6 | 68,887 | |
| Katherine Bruckner | 5.9 | 8,850 | ||
| Total votes: 151,011 | |||
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Republican primary
Republican primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Anthony Rogers (R) defeated Winnie Heartstrong (R) in the Republican primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Anthony Rogers | 61.5 | 6,979 |
 | Winnie Heartstrong | 38.5 | 4,367 | |
| Total votes: 11,346 | |||
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Libertarian Party primary
Libertarian primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Alex Furman (L) advanced from the Libertarian Party primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Alex Furman | 100.0 | 337 |
| Total votes: 337 | |||
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See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, 2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Incumbent William Lacy Clay (D) defeated Robert Vroman (R) and Robb Cunningham (L) in the general election for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | William Lacy Clay (D) | 80.1 | 219,781 |
 | Robert Vroman (R) | 16.7 | 45,867 | |
 | Robb Cunningham (L) | 3.2 | 8,727 | |
| Total votes: 274,3750 | |||
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Democratic primary
Democratic primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Incumbent William Lacy Clay (D) defeated Cori Bush (D), Joshua Shipp (D), and Demarco Davidson (D) in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on August 7, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | William Lacy Clay | 56.7 | 81,812 |
| | Cori Bush | 36.9 | 53,250 | |
 | Joshua Shipp | 3.4 | 4,974 | |
 | Demarco Davidson | 2.9 | 4,243 | |
| Total votes: 144,279 (100% precincts reporting) | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Susan Bolhafner (D)
Republican primary
Republican primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Robert Vroman (R) defeated Edward Van Deventer Jr. (R) and Camille Lombardi-Olive (R) in the Republican primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on August 7, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Robert Vroman | 34.5 | 5,101 |
 | Edward Van Deventer Jr. | 32.9 | 4,876 | |
 | Camille Lombardi-Olive | 32.6 | 4,829 | |
| Total votes: 14,806 (100% precincts reporting) | |||
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Libertarian Party primary
Libertarian primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1
Robb Cunningham (L) advanced from the Libertarian Party primary for U.S. House Missouri District 1 on August 7, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Robb Cunningham | 100.0 | 478 |
| Total votes: 478 (100% precincts reporting) | |||
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District map
Redistricting
2025-2026
On August 29, 2025, Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) called a special legislative session for mid-decade congressional redistricting and proposed a map that would draw parts of Kansas City into surrounding rural districts.[12] The special session began on September 3, 2025.[13] The Missouri House approved the maps on September 9, 2025, by a 90-65 vote.[14] The Missouri Senate approved the map by a 21-11 vote on September 12, 2025.[15] Kehoe signed the map into law on September 28, 2025. The map takes effect for the 2026 elections.[16]
The following maps compare the state's existing congressional districts with the congressional districts passed in 2025.
2020-2021
After the 2020 census, Missouri enacted new congressional district boundaries on May 18, 2022, when Gov. Mike Parson (R) signed them into law. According to Rudi Keller of the Missouri Independent, "No change in the partisan makeup of the Missouri delegation, currently six Republicans and two Democrats, is expected as a result of the map." Keller also wrote, "nine counties that have shifted almost wholly or entirely into new districts. Boundaries shifted in the five large-population counties that were previously split and a new split was introduced in Boone County in central Missouri."[17] This map took effect for Missouri’s 2022 congressional elections.
The Missouri House of Representatives approved the final version of the new congressional districts on May 9, 2022, by a vote of 101-47. Eighty-six Republicans and 15 Democrats approved the new map and 28 Democrats and 19 Republicans voted against it.[18] The state Senate approved the legislation (known as HB 2909) on May 11, 2022, by a vote of 22-11. Sixteen Republicans and six Democrats voted to approve the new map and seven Republicans and four Democrats voted against.[19]
After the Senate passed the maps, Keller wrote, "The first plan, released in December with backing from the Republican leaders of both chambers, essentially kept the partisan breakdown of the state’s delegation unchanged, with six safe Republican districts and two Democratic districts in Kansas City and St. Louis. The House passed that bill in January and, after weeks of on-and-off debate, the Senate passed a significantly altered version in late March. The seven members of the Senate’s conservative caucus demanded a map that cracked the Kansas City district and combined it with a huge swath of rural counties to make it possible for the GOP to capture the seat. The “6-2” vs. “7-1” debate came to a head in February when the conservative caucus began a filibuster that blocked progress not only on the redistricting plan but also on basically every other bill. At one point, two Republican Senators got into a shouting match and had to be physically separated."[20]
How does redistricting in Missouri work? In Missouri, congressional district boundaries are drawn by the state legislature. These lines are subject to veto by the governor.[21]
In 2018, the voters passed a citizens’ initiative called Amendment 1 that reshaped the redistricting process; in 2020, the voters narrowly passed a legislatively referred initiative called Amendment 3 that reshaped the process again.
Two distinct politician commissions are ultimately responsible for state legislative redistricting, one for the Missouri State Senate and another for the Missouri House of Representatives. Membership on these commissions is determined as follows:[21]
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Missouri’s congressional districts are drawn by the state legislature, as a regular statute, subject to gubernatorial veto. The state legislative lines are drawn by two separate politician commissions — one for state Senate districts, one for state House districts. For each commission, each major party’s congressional district committee nominates 2 members per congressional district, and the state committee nominates 5 members; the Governor chooses 1 per district per party and two per party from the statewide lists, for a total commission of 20.[22] |
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2020
2024
2010-2011
In 2011, the Missouri State Legislature re-drew the congressional districts based on updated population information from the 2010 census.
District analysis
- See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index
- See also: FiveThirtyEight's elasticity scores
2026
Heading into the 2026 elections, based on results from the 2024 and 2020 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district is D+29. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 29 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Missouri's 1st the 17th most Democratic district nationally.[23]
2024
Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+27. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 27 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Missouri's 1st the 25th most Democratic district nationally.[24]
Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have defeated Donald Trump (R) 78.4%-20.0%.[25]
2022
Heading into the 2022 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+27. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 27 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Missouri's 1st the 27th most Democratic district nationally.[26]
Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have received 78.4% of the vote in this district and Donald Trump (R) would have received 20.0%.[27]
2018
Heading into the 2018 elections, based on results from the 2016 and 2012 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+29. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 29 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Missouri's 1st Congressional District the 30th most Democratic nationally.[28]
FiveThirtyEight's September 2018 elasticity score for states and congressional districts measured "how sensitive it is to changes in the national political environment." This district's elasticity score was 0.98. This means that for every 1 point the national political mood moved toward a party, the district was expected to move 0.98 points toward that party.[29]
See also
- Redistricting in Missouri
- Missouri's 1st Congressional District election, 2024
- Missouri's 1st Congressional District election, 2022
- Missouri's 1st Congressional District election, 2020
- Missouri's 1st Congressional District election, 2018
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Missouri Secretary of State, "UNOFFICIAL Candidate Filing List," accessed March 30, 2016
- ↑ Politico, "Missouri House Primaries Results," August 2, 2016
- ↑ CNN, "Missouri House 01 Results," November 8, 2016
- ↑ Politico, "2012 Election Map, Missouri," accessed November 7, 2012
- ↑ Missouri Secretary of State, "August 2012 Primary Election," accessed September 5, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 2008," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 2006," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2004," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 5, 2002," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 2000," accessed March 28, 2013
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- ↑ Missouri Independent, "Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signs new congressional redistricting plan," May 18, 2022
- ↑ Missouri House of Representatives, "101st General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (HB2909)," accessed May 24, 2022
- ↑ Missouri Senate, "Journal of the Senate, May 11, 2022," accessed May 24, 2022
- ↑ Missouri Independent, "Missouri Senate adjourns early after passing congressional redistricting map," May 12, 2022
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 All About Redistricting, "Missouri," accessed April 16, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "2025 Cook PVI℠: District Map and List (119th Congress)," accessed July 1, 2025
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed January 10, 2024
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2020 presidential results by congressional district, for new and old districts," accessed September 15, 2022
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed February 6, 2023
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2020 presidential results by congressional district, for new and old districts," accessed September 15, 2022
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Introducing the 2017 Cook Political Report Partisan Voter Index," April 7, 2017
- ↑ FiveThirtyEight, "Election Update: The Most (And Least) Elastic States And Districts," September 6, 2018
