Missouri's 4th congressional district

Missouri's 4th congressional district
Missouri's 4th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Current Representative		Vicky Hartzler (R–Harrisonville)
Cook PVI	R+11^[1]

Missouri's 4th Congressional District consists of west central Missouri. The district is predominantly rural and relatively conservative; George W. Bush defeated John Kerry 64% to 35% in Election 2004 and John McCain defeated Barack Obama 61% to 38% in Election 2008. The district is currently represented by Vicky Hartzler, a Republican.

This district had historically been a Democratic Party stronghold. Antipathy to the Republican Party had its origins in the American Civil War and the infamous General Order 11. While Republicans found some success in this area after the Civil War, it gradually developed a character similar to Yellow Dog Democrat districts in the South. Until 2010, only one Republican had been elected here since the Great Depression, and only for one term. Bill Clinton carried this district by a lopsided margin in 1992 and carried it again by a smaller margin in 1996.

However, several demographic trends have converged to erode the Democratic base in this district. First, as the New York Times election maps show, the predominantly rural counties lining the Missouri River have sharply trended Republican between the 2000 Senate election and the 2006 election.^[2] Secondly, population losses in the Kansas City-based 5th district resulted in the 4th losing most of its share of heavily Democratic Jackson County. Until the 1970s, the district stretched as far as Independence. To compensate for this, large portions of heavily Republican Southwest Missouri were moved in from the neighboring 7th district.^[3] The result of these aforementioned trends resulted in a spectacular collapse of Democratic support in the district. Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barack Obama won less than 40% of the vote here. In the 2010 general election, Hartzler defeated 34-year Democratic incumbent Ike Skelton.

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	District home	Notes
District created March 4, 1847
Willard P. Hall	Democratic	March 4, 1847 – March 4, 1853
Mordecai Oliver	Whig	March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1855
Mordecai Oliver	Opposition	March 4, 1855 – March 4, 1857
James Craig	Democratic	March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861
Elijah H. Norton	Democratic	March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1863
Sempronius H. Boyd	Unconditional Unionist	March 4, 1863 – March 4, 1865
John R. Kelso	Independent Republican	March 4, 1865 – March 4, 1867
Joseph J. Gravely	Republican	March 4, 1867 – March 4, 1869
Sempronius H. Boyd	Republican	March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1871
Harrison E. Havens	Republican	March 4, 1871 – March 4, 1873		Redistricted to the 6th district
Robert A. Hatcher	Democratic	March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1879
Lowndes H. Davis	Democratic	March 4, 1879 – March 4, 1883		Redistricted to the 14th district
James N. Burnes	Democratic	March 4, 1883 – January 23, 1889		Died
Vacant		January 23, 1889 – February 19, 1889
Charles F. Booher	Democratic	February 19, 1889 – March 4, 1889
Vacant		March 4, 1889 – December 2, 1889
Robert P. C. Wilson	Democratic	December 2, 1889 – March 4, 1893		elected in special election after Rep-elect James N. Burnes died before commencement of congress
Daniel D. Burnes	Democratic	March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1895
George C. Crowther	Republican	March 4, 1895 – March 4, 1897
Charles F. Cochran	Democratic	March 4, 1897 – March 4, 1905
Frank B. Fulkerson	Republican	March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1907
Charles F. Booher	Democratic	March 4, 1907 – January 21, 1921		Died
Vacant		January 21, 1921 – March 4, 1921
Charles L. Faust	Republican	March 4, 1921 – December 17, 1928		Died
Vacant		December 17, 1928 – February 5, 1929
David W. Hopkins	Republican	February 5, 1929 – March 4, 1933
March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	District inactive, all representatives elected At-large on a general ticket
C. Jasper Bell	Democratic	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1949
Leonard Irving	Democratic	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1953
Jeffrey P. Hillelson	Republican	January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1955
George H. Christopher	Democratic	January 3, 1955 – January 23, 1959		Died
Vacant		January 23, 1959 – March 3, 1959
William J. Randall	Democratic	March 3, 1959 – January 3, 1977
Ike Skelton	Democratic	January 3, 1977 – January 3, 2011		defeated for re-election to 18th term in 2010
Vicky Hartzler	Republican	January 3, 2011 – present	Harrisonville	Incumbent

Counties

There is a total of 26 counties included in MO-04.

2008 Presidential Election Results by County

The table below shows how individual counties in MO-04 voted in the 2008 presidential election. U.S. Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) won every single county in MO-04 and swept the district with 60.58 percent of the vote while U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) received 37.87 percent, a 22.71-percent margin of victory for the GOP.

County	John McCain	Barack Obama	Difference
Barton	74.21	24.46	R + 49.75
Dade	69.65	28.79	R + 40.86
Moniteau	67.02	31.27	R + 35.75
Laclede	66.62	31.97	R + 34.65
Cedar	66.01	32.42	R + 33.59
Polk	65.39	33.24	R + 32.15
Dallas	63.71	34.57	R + 29.14
Webster	63.77	34.76	R + 29.01
Pulaski	63.68	34.99	R + 28.69
Camden	63.59	35.12	R + 28.47
Cole	62.94	36.03	R + 26.91
Pettis	60.51	38.07	R + 22.44
Benton	60.20	37.93	R + 22.27
Vernon	60.08	38.08	R + 22.00
St. Clair	59.76	37.81	R + 21.95
Morgan	59.58	38.97	R + 20.61
Cass	59.18	39.55	R + 19.63
Bates	58.35	39.49	R + 18.86
Lafayette	56.88	41.58	R + 15.30
Hickory	55.72	42.44	R + 13.28
Johnson	55.18	42.93	R + 12.25
Henry	54.62	43.63	R + 10.99
Ray	50.60	47.42	R + 3.18
Saline	50.39	47.85	R + 2.54

2008 Missouri Democratic Presidential Primary Election Results by County

The table below shows how individual counties in MO-04 voted in the 2008 Missouri Democratic Presidential Primary. Former U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) swept the district by a convincing margin over U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois). Clinton won every county in the district with the exception of Cole County, home of the State Capitol.

County	Hillary Clinton	Barack Obama	Difference
Benton	68.77	26.95	C + 41.82
St. Clair	67.52	26.12	C + 41.40
Hickory	67.95	27.86	C + 40.09
Ray	65.29	30.31	C + 34.98
Bates	63.51	30.08	C + 33.43
Dallas	63.75	32.01	C + 31.74
Henry	63.18	32.10	C + 31.08
Barton	63.43	32.85	C + 30.58
Polk	63.81	33.28	C + 30.53
Vernon	61.55	31.42	C + 30.13
Dade	62.22	33.12	C + 29.10
Laclede	62.48	33.77	C + 28.71
Morgan	62.05	33.58	C + 28.47
Cedar	60.30	33.00	C + 27.30
Webster	61.20	34.46	C + 26.74
Lafayette	60.75	35.40	C + 25.35
Moniteau	60.38	36.38	C + 24.00
Cass	59.76	36.73	C + 23.03
Saline	57.46	37.85	C + 19.61
Camden	57.99	38.75	C + 19.24
Pulaski	56.07	39.35	C + 16.72
Pettis	54.76	41.38	C + 13.38
Johnson	53.22	43.07	C + 10.15
Cole	45.07	51.16	O + 6.09

Historical district boundaries

2003 - 2013

References

↑ "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-10.
↑ "Senate Races". The New York Times.
↑ http://archive.fairvote.org/redistricting/reports/remanual/monews2.htm

Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

Missouri's congressional districts

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Coordinates: 38°16′57″N 93°19′08″W / 38.28250°N 93.31889°W / 38.28250; -93.31889

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