Democrats flip 16 Missouri House seats, ending Republican super majority

By Rudi Keller missouriindependent.com The blue wave reached the steps of the Missouri Governor’s Mansion Tuesday when Democrats won the state House seat representing downtown Jefferson City on their way to flipping 16 seats from Republicans across the state. Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe’s official residence will be represented by Suzanne Luther, a former member of the Jefferson City Board of Education who defeated Republican Shane Kampeter. Tuesday’s results broke the Republican’s two-thirds supermajority, which has been in place since 2012. And it was almost a mirror image of the Republican’s biggest night this century, when the GOP won 17 seats in 2010. The House will have 95 Republicans and 68 Democrats when it convenes in January. “It feels really, really good to look towards the next General Assembly and not be a member of a super minority party,” said state Rep. Ashley Aune of Kansas City, the House Democratic floor leader.

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