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The Municipal Government of Kansas City, Missouri is the largest municipal government in the state of
Missouri
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and one of the largest in the
United States
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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 t ...
municipal court. It is headquartered in
City Hall
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, 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
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have served as mayor. Kansas City is heavily Democratic in the south and east, but tends to be more Republican-leaning in the north.