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The Municipal Government of Kansas City, Missouri is the largest municipal government in the state of
Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
and one of the largest in the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
. It employs over 2,000 people at all levels and consists of the
Mayor of Kansas City
The Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri is the highest official in the Kansas City, Missouri Municipal Government.
Since the 1920s the city has had a council-manager government in which a city manager runs most of the day-to-day operations of t ...
Kansas City
The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more ...
municipal court. It is headquartered in
City Hall
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses ...
, but has offices in various places throughout the city. The municipal government of Kansas City has a budget exceeding $1 billion, due to the citywide 1% tax on income earned in city limits, making it have one of the largest municipal budgets in the nation.
The government of Kansas City is officially non-partisan; however, Democrats have long held a significant dominance of politics throughout the city. In the last 100 years, only four Republicans have served as mayor. Kansas City is heavily Democratic in the south and east, but tends to be more Republican-leaning in the north.