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Boone County, Missouri's 2020 to 2024 partisan movement set against its five-cycle arc and the statewide and national swings that frame it.
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Boone in Missouri, drawn against the state outline.
Cycle-by-cycle arc
Boone County moved 2.8 points right between 2020 and 2024, settling at D+9.7 after D+12.5 four cycles earlier. Across the full 16-year span the net drift is only 2.2 points right, with Boone ending D+9.7 against D+12.0 in 2008. The trough came in 2012 at D+3.1, an 8.9-point rightward swing from the Obama '08 peak. From there the county climbed back 2.8 points left in 2016 and another 6.7 points left in 2020 before the 2024 reversal.
Shifted 2.2 pts left across 16 years.
Population, income, education
Boone County is 83.7% non-Hispanic white across 135,000 people, with 41.7% of adults holding a bachelor's degree. Median household income sits at $37,485 and the poverty rate runs 14.5%, while the foreign-born share is 4.5%. The education profile is the demographic feature most relevant to the county's partisan position relative to Missouri.
Against county, state, and national
| Geography | 2016 | 2020 | 2024 | Change since 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boone | D+5.9 | D+12.5 | D+9.7 | -2.2 pts |
| Missouri | R+18.5 | R+15.4 | R+18.4 | +0.1 pts |
| MO-3 | R+27.5 | R+17.0 | R+19.9 | +7.5 pts |
| United States | D+2.1 | D+4.5 | R+1.4 | -3.5 pts |
Akashic Atlas, "Boone County, Missouri's 2020 to 2024 partisan movement set against its five-cycle arc and the statewide and national swings that frame it", answer ID ZhxHTSvxCJlA, generated 2026-04-28, retrieved 2026-04-29. https://akashicedge.com/atlas/a/ZhxHTSvxCJlA
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