United States Senate election in Missouri, 2024

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U.S. Senate, Missouri
	Democratic primary; Republican primary; General election
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: Likely Republican; Inside Elections: Solid Republican; Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Republican
Ballotpedia analysis
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Missouri 2024 elections

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Voters in Missouri elected one member to the U.S. Senate in the general election on November 5, 2024. The primary was August 6, 2024. The filing deadline was March 26, 2024.

The election filled the Class I Senate seat held by Josh Hawley (R), who first took office in 2019.

The outcome of this race affected the partisan balance of the U.S. Senate in the 119th Congress. Thirty-four of 100 seats were up for election, including one special election. Of the seats up for election in 2024, Democrats held 19, Republicans held 11, and independents held four.

At the time of the election, Democrats had a 50-49 majority.^[1] As a result of the election, Republicans gained a 53-47 majority in the U.S. Senate.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag To read more about the 2024 U.S. Senate elections, click here.

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Candidates and election results

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Missouri

The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Missouri on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Josh Hawley (R)	55.6	1,651,907
		Lucas Kunce (D)	41.8	1,243,728
	Submit photo	W. C. Young (L)	1.2	35,671
		Jared Young (Better Party)	0.7	21,111
		Nathan Kline (G)	0.7	20,123
		Gina Bufe (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	19

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,972,559
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Zack Exley (Independent)
Doris Canaday (Socialist Equality Party)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Missouri

Lucas Kunce defeated Karla May, December Harmon, and Mita Biswas in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Missouri on August 6, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Lucas Kunce	67.6	255,775
	Karla May	23.2	87,908
	December Harmon	7.1	26,804
	Mita Biswas	2.0	7,647

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 378,134
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Wesley Bell (D)
Samuel Rutherford (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Missouri

Incumbent Josh Hawley advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Missouri on August 6, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Josh Hawley	100.0	607,602

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 607,602
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Christopher Murphy (R)

Libertarian primary election

Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate Missouri

W. C. Young advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate Missouri on August 6, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	W. C. Young	100.0	2,437

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,437
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Candidate profiles

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Nathan Kline

Party: Green Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography: "I am running as the Green Party candidate to be the next Senator from Missouri. I am a lifelong resident of Kansas City, MO and a long-time homeowner in the Plaza-Westport neighborhood. A graduate of Kansas City Art Institute, I am a dedicated public servant and creative problem solver who has a strong and varied background in both the public and private sector, management and administration. With twenty-five years of hospitality management experience, I brought my skill set to the public sector in 2013 to work for the City Planning and Development Department of the City of Kansas City, MO where I am currently honored to help serve my city and its citizens. I have been a supporter of the Green Party since the 1996 Ralph Nader campaign for president after finally coming to the realization that the two corporate parties are irredeemably corrupt. Having run as a Green Party candidate previously for Jackson County, MO Executive in 2018 and for MO Senate District 7 in 2020, I currently serve as Outreach Officer for the Green Party of Kansas City, MO. As an avid student of history, political science, economics, philosophy and the arts, I continually seek to bridge the gap between theory and practice to achieve a sustainable, just and peaceful society. I believe that the Green Party, is the only political party in the US that is not wholly captured by corporations & billionaires that has the ballot status necessary to achieve these goals."

Key Messages

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Democracy: Americans across the political spectrum know that our democracy has long been sold out to the highest bidders. Neither of the two corporate parties, who built the pay-to-play political system together in this country, are going to reform it. At this point, we are the only country in the world that allows for the full, legalized bribery of our elected officials. Only a mass political movement that offers candidates that refuse to take corporate money, and inspires Americans to vote only for those corporate-free candidates, can resurrect American democracy from the grave that the Democrats and Republicans have buried it in. There is only one such political movement in this country today and that is the Green Party.

Sustainability: We must stop burning fossil fuels. Renewable energy is gaining a market foothold, but they will never replace the energy produced by fossil fuels. As renewable energy has grown, so has the burning of fossil fuels due to our insatiable growth-based economy. We must transition to a degrowth economy in which we use much less energy so as to live in balance with the natural world. It is a myth that Democrats are better than Republicans on this most important issue. Both Biden and Obama issued more new drilling permits per year than Trump. We must replace both of these fossil fuel funded parties with good ancestors who will put the welfare of future generations ahead of the short-term profits of billionaire sociopaths.

Foreign Policy: Democrats & Republicans have one answer to every foreign policy challenge. Whatever makes their weapons manufacturing donors the most money. They divide any conflict into good guys & evil doers (it’s never that simple), give LOTS of high tech weapons to the “good guys” who wreak havoc until we get sick of it. We then act like it never happened. Usually the “evil doers” take control of their destroyed country, after we’ve wasted billions of dollars, leaving us not enough to invest in our real priorities. We have 800+ foreign military bases. No other country has five. Empires rot from the inside as they spend their energy on unnecessary war while the homeland withers. The Green Party is the only party of peace & negotiation.

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

Jared Young

Party: Better Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography: "Jared Young has courageously stepped forward to lead a transformation of our national government away from politics-as-usual to a better form of representation – people first, parties and self-interest never. Jared is running as an independent U.S. Senate candidate so he will be able to make decisions free of partisan influence; in other words—do what is right simply because it is right. He is a Harvard-educated lawyer, a proven CEO, and a family-first father and husband who has worked with Missourians up close and personal, both in business and community service. Jared will represent normal, everyday Missourians, rather than those loudly yelling at the extremes of the political spectrum."

Key Messages

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Extreme, uncompromising voices on both sides of the political spectrum have hijacked our leadership and our policymaking, leaving most Americans—the moderate majority—feeling unrepresented, dissatisfied, and pessimistic about the direction of the nation.

The inability of the two major parties to work together constructively has led to political gridlock, leaving urgent issues unaddressed, wasting precious taxpayer money, and leaving people frustrated with lack of productive progress by our political leaders.

Change by well-intentioned politicians from inside the two major parties has mostly failed. As an independent, Jared will be able to focus on leading efforts to find moderate solutions to key issues such as immigration, economic progress, public safety, and election reform.

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

Voting information

See also: Voting in Missouri

Election information in Missouri: Nov. 5, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

In-person: Oct. 9, 2024
By mail: Postmarked by Oct. 9, 2024
Online: Oct. 9, 2024

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

No

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

In-person: Nov. 4, 2024
By mail: Received by Oct. 23, 2024
Online: N/A

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

In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
By mail: Received by Nov. 5, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

Yes

What were the early voting start and end dates?

Oct. 22, 2024 to Nov. 4, 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)

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Nathan Kline (G)

Democracy: Americans across the political spectrum know that our democracy has long been sold out to the highest bidders. Neither of the two corporate parties, who built the pay-to-play political system together in this country, are going to reform it. At this point, we are the only country in the world that allows for the full, legalized bribery of our elected officials. Only a mass political movement that offers candidates that refuse to take corporate money, and inspires Americans to vote only for those corporate-free candidates, can resurrect American democracy from the grave that the Democrats and Republicans have buried it in. There is only one such political movement in this country today and that is the Green Party.

Sustainability: We must stop burning fossil fuels. Renewable energy is gaining a market foothold, but they will never replace the energy produced by fossil fuels. As renewable energy has grown, so has the burning of fossil fuels due to our insatiable growth-based economy. We must transition to a degrowth economy in which we use much less energy so as to live in balance with the natural world. It is a myth that Democrats are better than Republicans on this most important issue. Both Biden and Obama issued more new drilling permits per year than Trump. We must replace both of these fossil fuel funded parties with good ancestors who will put the welfare of future generations ahead of the short-term profits of billionaire sociopaths.

Foreign Policy: Democrats & Republicans have one answer to every foreign policy challenge. Whatever makes their weapons manufacturing donors the most money. They divide any conflict into good guys & evil doers (it’s never that simple), give LOTS of high tech weapons to the “good guys” who wreak havoc until we get sick of it. We then act like it never happened. Usually the “evil doers” take control of their destroyed country, after we’ve wasted billions of dollars, leaving us not enough to invest in our real priorities. We have 800+ foreign military bases. No other country has five. Empires rot from the inside as they spend their energy on unnecessary war while the homeland withers. The Green Party is the only party of peace & negotiation.

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Jared Young (Better)

Extreme, uncompromising voices on both sides of the political spectrum have hijacked our leadership and our policymaking, leaving most Americans—the moderate majority—feeling unrepresented, dissatisfied, and pessimistic about the direction of the nation.

The inability of the two major parties to work together constructively has led to political gridlock, leaving urgent issues unaddressed, wasting precious taxpayer money, and leaving people frustrated with lack of productive progress by our political leaders.

Change by well-intentioned politicians from inside the two major parties has mostly failed. As an independent, Jared will be able to focus on leading efforts to find moderate solutions to key issues such as immigration, economic progress, public safety, and election reform.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Nathan Kline (G)

Wealth: 30 years ago, the middle class had twice the wealth of the top 1%. Now the top 1% has more than the middle.

Health Care: We pay twice the cost per person than any county for health care but often have worse outcomes. Education: Many countries guarantee higher education. We import 140,000 professionals per year from abroad due to failing to invest in education. Housing: We have largely stopped providing affordable housing. Speculators are allowed to set housing prices & availability, pricing out working families.

Democrats & Republicans maintain the failed status quo as their wealthy donors profit from it. The Green Party will redistribute wealth & make health care, higher education & housing human rights for all.

Jared Young (Better)

National Finances: Decades of irresponsible spending have left our country on the brink of fiscal disaster. Our national debt has exploded over the past two decades. Social Security is quickly approaching insolvency. We must elect leaders with real political courage who can implement a plan to stabilize America’s finances, save Social Security, and begin reducing our crippling national debt.

Election Reform: Partisan fearmongering has caused most people to lose faith in our electoral system. We must adopt policies that ensure the integrity of our elections while also allowing every eligible voter to easily cast a ballot. We must also reign in the partisan gerrymandering that worsens our country’s polarization. Public Safety: We must stop villainizing our brave police forces and instead provide them with the resources and training they need to do their jobs better. To address growing threats from abroad, we must shore up our military strength and refocus the military on its core values, while at the same time holding the Defense Department and their defense contractors accountable for wasteful spending.

Immigration: Business leaders throughout Missouri and across the country are clamoring for more skilled and able-bodied workers to meet their companies’ needs. The problem will only get worse as more and more baby boomers retire. We need immigration policy that secures our borders while also making it easier for more hard-working immigrants to come to our country legally.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Nathan Kline (G)

Of the many role models, both historical and current that I could choose to emulate at this time, I choose Abraham Lincoln as that model. Lincoln and his allies confronted a great moral challenge to our nation. The moral challenge was slavery. This moral abomination had been allowed to fester under the misrule of an ossified two party system. Lincoln and his allies found a way to innovate and bring to prominence a new political party to confront and overturn (at least formally) slavery, and in the process revolutionized the political status quo forever. The Democratic Party and the Whig Party had failed to do what needed to be done to end slavery and Lincoln saw that they probably never would. He saw that a new political party was necessary to upend this immoral status quo. He know that it would not be an easy task for an upstart party to accomplish this goal, but he knew that it was the only way forward. He was right.

We now find ourselves in a very similar conundrum. Neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican party have done, or are prepared to do, what must be done to confront the great moral challenge of our day, That moral challenge is the Climate Crisis. Climate scientists have been warning us for at least 40 years that our growth based, fossil fuel powered human economy was unsustainable and that if we did not profoundly change our way of life to come back into balance with the natural world, that there would be no more future for our descendants in the very near future.

Due to the Democrats and Republicans taking billions of dollars in campaign donations (read: bribes) from the fossil fuel industry neither has done anything significant to transition from fossil fuels despite the existential threat this inaction poses to all future generations. Just as Lincoln and his allies found that only a new political party could break out of immoral inaction in his day, we in the Green Party have the courage to do what is necessary in ours.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

Nathan Kline (G)

The first world historical event that I have a firm memory of happening at the time of its occurrence was the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. I would have been 6 years old at the time. I remember distinctly setting in our family living room with my father watching the evening news when the newscaster announced the fall of Saigon and the effective end of the war. I remember my father's reaction to be one of sober relief that this terrible episode in US history had finally come to a close.

My father had served as a medical corpsman in theater earlier in the war. He was a conscientious objector that daily witnessed the horrors of the war in the mutilated bodies of US soldiers. He had, like thousands of Vietnam War veterans once returned stateside, joined the antiwar movement. He was thoughtful and careful in the lessons that he taught me and my siblings about war, but always honest and forthright. I learned that war is always a mistake and that pouring more firepower on a bad situation very rarely or never makes it better.

It is a lesson that that our country has been slow to realize despite unfortunately having many later opportunities to learn it. At a time when our country has over 800 foreign military bases, as no other country has 5; it is way passed time that we try a different way to resolve conflicts other than to bomb them unrelentingly.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

Nathan Kline (G)

As the son of working class parents I went to work just as soon as I was legally allowed to. At age 16 I went door to door in my neighborhood looking for work and was hired as a busboy at a local full service Mexican themed restaurant and bar. I worked there after school and on weekends full time for about a year and a half. In that time I ended up doing every job in building that was not a management position. I bused tables, hosted, waited tables, washed dishes, and cooked in the kitchen. Like all hospitality industry jobs it was physically demanding and required precise choreography and cooperation between staff members to provide high quality food, beverage, and service in a timely manner. I learned a lot from my coworkers and managers, both through positive and negative examples of what works and what does not.

What is your favorite book? Why?

Nathan Kline (G)

I'm currently re-reading Henry David Thoreau's Waldon which is truly an amazing example of someone being way ahead of his time. Prior to the US civil war he sees the crisis that expansionist human civilization presents to both the natural world and to human fulfilment, long before almost anyone else does. The book is both a joy to read and a shockingly up to date warning of the dangers of casually overrunning and destroying everything that makes life worth living.

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

Nathan Kline (G)

Bob Dylan's. A Hard Rain’s A‐gonna Fall. Wow, what a prescient warning of where we are heading that ends a defiantly hopeful rallying cry in the face of despair.

What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Nathan Kline (G)

The greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced, is human induced climate change. Six years ago the United Nations announced that humanity had 12 years to radically reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases or face civilizational collapse and potentially human extinction within just a few generations. Most climate scientists are not that optimistic, with a growing number worrying publicly that we may have already reached the point of no return.

To respond to this crisis almost every nation of the world agreed to reduce their carbon emissions to meet agreed upon goals in the Paris Climate Accord of 2015. This is a non-binding agreement with no enforcement mechanism, that no country is currently meeting their commitments to. The US in fact has rapidly continued to increase it's emissions every year except during the Covid-19 induced recession.

US emission reductions caused by the pandemic shutdowns were around 5%. These reductions were considerably below our 2020 Paris climate accord goal of 7.5% in reductions per year. The Accord then commits the US to the same 7.5% reductions each year for the rest of the 2020s. Thousands of PhD's in dozens of fields studying the climate agree that that these reductions are necessary for human civilization to have a chance to survive. Our challenge therefore is that we must voluntarily far exceed the reduction in economic activity that we saw during the pandemic worldwide for each year or face eminent catastrophe.

Our current growth-based capitalist economy is completely inappropriate to address these challenges and indeed has ignored the warnings of scientists for over 40 years. It is time for bold, visionary leadership that can imagine our path toward a peaceful, just, and sustainable future. Only the eco-socialist program of the Green Party is up to task. We can no longer ignore this reality. This is the most important decade in human history. Everything that we hold dear is a stake.

Do you believe that it’s beneficial for senators to have previous experience in government or politics?

Nathan Kline (G)

I think that it is beneficial for Senators to have a wide variety of experiences, only one of which is previous governmental or political experience. Currently, over 50% of US Senators are lawyers, while lawyers make up less than .05% of Americans. This is an example of a poor mix of experiential background that hampers the Senate from representing all Americans. The knowledge of experienced politicians can help better manage government, as they often have good functional understanding of the processes and organizational structures of the governmental bodies that they write the rules for. On the other hand that same experience can lock these leaders into being overly focused on how to optimize the current structures and processes, while not being able to see the necessity and opportunities to at crucial times overhaul and restructure these systems. The vision of new, less jaded leaders, who are focused on new visions of what government could do and how it could do it, is essential to push the boundaries of the possible. It is the tension (but cooperation) between these types of leaders that produces the best possible legislative bodies. We need both the old guard constantly challenging new ideas for functionality and the new idealistic faction pushing the organization to evolve to meet new challenges and grow so as to reflect the evolving desires and dreams of the citizens.

What kind of relationships would you build with other senators?

Nathan Kline (G)

I'm sure that the other Senators would not be happy to have me around.

As a Green Party Senator, I would be a wildcard that would change the dynamic of any committee I served on very positively. Currently the two groups of corporate party representatives fight like dogs in public, but engage in almost identical immoral behavior behind the scenes. They both spend most of their time meeting with lobbyists, calling donors, and turning in bills written by their donors' legislation factories. They have colluded to make all of this immoral behavior legal and they do not call each other out on these and other behaviors that misserve the communities they should be serving. Their actual constituents are their wealthy campaign contributors.

Having a Green Party Senator in the room will make the process more uncomfortable for these politicians, as the dirty method of making legislation will be highlighted in an ongoing way, and a better, democratic alternative continually offered. At first the power of embarrassment should make the whole process work better for the public. Eventually, as the public gets behind the Clean Green Party option and more Green Party legislators are elected, these immoral behaviors will be made illegal again, taking money out of politics so that it works for communities and voters.

Campaign finance

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Josh Hawley	Republican Party	$27,468,286	$27,645,539	$298,263	As of December 31, 2024
Mita Biswas	Democratic Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
December Harmon	Democratic Party	$18,463	$16,759	$1,703	As of August 19, 2024
Lucas Kunce	Democratic Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Karla May	Democratic Party	$62,033	$61,772	$261	As of December 31, 2024
Jared Young	Better Party	$1,004,183	$1,004,183	$0	As of November 25, 2024
Nathan Kline	Green Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
W. C. Young	Libertarian Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Gina Bufe	Independent	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
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. * Candidate either did not report any receipts or disbursements to the FEC, or Ballotpedia did not find an FEC candidate ID.

General election race ratings

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Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.^[2]
Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Race ratings: U.S. Senate election in Missouri, 2024
Race tracker	Race ratings
	November 5, 2024	October 29, 2024	October 22, 2024	October 15, 2024
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter	Solid Republican	Solid Republican	Solid Republican	Solid Republican
Decision Desk HQ and The Hill	Likely Republican	Likely Republican	Likely Republican	Likely Republican
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales	Solid Republican	Solid Republican	Solid Republican	Solid Republican
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball	Safe Republican	Safe Republican	Safe Republican	Safe Republican
Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week.

Ballot access requirements

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. Senate 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. Senate candidates, 2024
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Missouri	U.S. Senate	Ballot-qualified party	N/A	$500.00	3/26/2024	Source
Missouri	U.S. Senate	Unaffiliated	10,000	N/A	7/29/2024	Source

Election history

The section below details election results for this state's U.S. Senate elections dating back to 2016.