Missouri's 7th congressional district


Missouri's 7th congressional district consists of Southwest Missouri. The district includes Springfield, the home of Missouri State University, and the popular tourist destination city of Branson. Located along the borders of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Northwest Arkansas, the district occupies part of the Bible Belt with a strong socially conservative trend. George W. Bush defeated John Kerry here 67% to 32% in the 2004 election. Republican John McCain defeated Democrat Barack Obama 63.1% to 35.3% in the 2008 election. Republican and Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney defeated Barack Obama 67.6% to 30.3% in the 2012 election. In the 2016 election, Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton 70.4% to 24.7%. As of 2017, this district is the second most strongly Republican district in Missouri and is one of the most strongly Republican districts in the United States.
The district is currently represented by Republican Billy Long of Springfield. He survived primary challenges on August 7, 2018. He defeated Democrat Jamie Schoolcraft, physician's assistant and former mayor of Willard in the final election in November.

List of members representing the district

Election results from presidential races

Counties

There are a total of 10 counties included in MO-07.

Largest cities

The 10 largest cities in MO-07 are as follows.
RankCityCountyPopulation Population
1SpringfieldGreene/Christian159,498166,810
2JoplinJasper/Newton50,15051,818
3NixaChristian19,02220,984
4OzarkChristian17,82019,120
5RepublicChristian/Greene14,75116,005
6CarthageJasper14,37814,319
7NeoshoNewton11,83512,156
8BransonTaney/Stone10,52011,431
9Webb CityJasper10,99611,165
10BolivarPolk10,32510,714

Median household incomes

Median family incomes

Election results

Congressional

Presidential

2008
The table below shows how individual counties in MO-07 voted in the 2008 presidential election. U.S. Senator John McCain swept the district with 63.07 percent of the vote while U.S. Senator Barack Obama received 35.39 percent, a 27.68-percent margin of victory for the GOP. McCain received less than 60 percent in only Greene County, where Obama may have been helped by the college subplot presence of Missouri State University.
CountyJohn McCainBarack ObamaDifference
Newton69.4229.32R + 40.10
McDonald67.6030.17R + 37.43
Stone68.0230.69R + 37.33
Taney68.0230.85R + 37.17
Lawrence67.7030.64R + 37.06
Christian67.3331.52R + 35.81
Barry66.6331.62R + 35.01
Jasper65.6732.62R + 33.05
Polk65.3933.24R + 32.15
Greene57.0641.26R + 15.08

Primaries

2008
Republican
The table below shows how individual counties in MO-07 voted in the 2008 Missouri Republican Presidential Primary. Former Governor Mike Huckabee carried every county in MO-07 over U.S. Senator John McCain and former Governor Mitt Romney.
CountyMike HuckabeeJohn McCainMitt RomneyDifference
Taney55.8925.9014.17H + 29.99
Polk51.3325.2818.65H + 26.05
Christian48.4624.3722.75H + 24.09
McDonald48.7125.5514.75H + 23.16
Lawrence48.7526.1918.96H + 22.56
Barry49.6928.3115.33H + 21.38
Newton45.4925.9522.82H + 19.54
Jasper42.2325.8226.03H + 16.20
Greene42.4827.0925.17H + 15.39
Stone45.0131.8218.80H + 13.19

Democratic
The table below shows how individual counties in MO-07 voted in the 2008 Missouri Democratic Presidential Primary. Former U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton carried every county in the district by convincing margins over U.S. Senator Barack Obama.
CountyHillary ClintonBarack ObamaDifference
McDonald68.3926.00C + 42.39
Barry65.5230.47C + 35.05
Newton65.5531.46C + 34.09
Polk63.8133.28C + 30.53
Taney63.6933.74C + 29.95
Lawrence61.5834.86C + 26.72
Stone61.7635.17C + 26.59
Jasper60.4236.39C + 24.03
Christian57.6839.93C + 17.75
Greene54.9442.77C + 12.17

Gubernatorial

2008
The table below shows how individual counties in MO-07 voted in the 2008 Missouri gubernatorial election. Former Attorney General and now Governor Jay Nixon lost the district to his challenger, former U.S. Representative Kenny Hulshof.
CountyKenny HulshofJay NixonDifference
Newton61.8536.29R + 25.56
McDonald59.7436.63R + 23.11
Jasper58.6139.42R + 19.19
Jasper58.6139.42R + 19.19
Taney51.1646.31R + 4.85
Stone49.5347.46R + 2.07
Christian49.6547.73R + 1.92
Barry49.4847.90R + 1.58
Lawrence49.1547.94R + 1.21
Polk45.7649.52D + 3.76
Greene42.8454.45D + 11.61