Congressional district · Boundaries of the 119th Congress

Missouri's 1st district

Missouri's 1st district has 751,634 residents on 248 mi² of land. It is represented by Wesley Bell (D-MO-1). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $7.3B in FY2026.

Residents
751,634
Land area
248 mi²
Counties
2
Representative
Wesley Bell
Map of Missouri's 1st district within Missouri

Members for this district

Members who held this seat while these boundaries were in force, newest first.

Senators

The state's senators today, or on the last day of these boundaries for an older plan.

Counties

Share of the district's residents living in each county, and share of the county's residents living in the district (2020 census tracts weighted by their overlap).

  1. St. Louis County62% of the district · 47% of the county
  2. St. Louis city38% of the district · 100% of the county

Federal contracts

Contract obligations attributed to the district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines.

Obligations · FY2026
$7.3B
Per resident
$9,754
Rank in Missouri
1 of 8
Contract actions
101.9K
New awards: 97.3K

By fiscal year

  1. 7.4BFY2017
  2. 12.5BFY2018
  3. 11.2BFY2019
  4. 11.5BFY2020
  5. 8.7BFY2021
  6. 5.9BFY2022
  7. 10.3BFY2023
  8. 10.8BFY2024
  9. 8.9BFY2025
  10. 7.3BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Defense
  2. Department of Defense
  3. Department of Defense
  4. Department of Defense
  5. Department of Defense
  6. Department of Agriculture
  7. General Services Administration

Top recipients

  1. 381 awards
  2. 2,577 awards
  3. 1 award
  4. 174 awards
  5. 1 award
  6. 94,510 awards
  7. GUIDEHOUSE INC.$25.7M0.4%
    2 awards
  8. 4 awards
  9. 1 award
  10. 7 awards

Other boundaries

District lines change between plans; each plan keeps its own page.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.