- Lead
- 26,566
- Total
- 133,080
- vs nation
- D+21.4
Lebanon-Claremont, NH-VT
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Vote totals, margins, and source status
- Lead
- 31,679
- Total
- 130,144
- vs nation
- D+19.9
- Lead
- 20,399
- Total
- 118,451
- vs nation
- D+15.1
- Lead
- 29,899
- Total
- 113,603
- vs nation
- D+22.5
- Lead
- 34,951
- Total
- 118,560
- vs nation
- D+22.2
- Lead
- 16,003
- Total
- 114,437
- vs nation
- D+16.4
- Lead
- 2,417
- Total
- 101,243
- vs nation
- D+1.9
- Lead
- 15,628
- Total
- 92,341
- vs nation
- D+8.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+20.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 223,5862024 5-year
- Population density
- 57 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3,903 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $83,2442024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 90.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+29.5 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+57.9 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Portland-South Portland, ME · twin score 95.9
presidential history
Party record book
Lebanon-Claremont, NH-VT · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
64.1%
75,938 votes · D+29.5
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 64.0%
Republican
William McKinley1896
76.5%
18,144 votes · R+57.9
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 75.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
79,250votes
60.9% of the vote · D+24.3
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 78,101 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
51,535votes
38.7% of the vote · D+20.0
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 48,331 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
+22.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+26.3 · U.S. D+3.9
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +22.2 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+51.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+57.9 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +44.7 pts
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 18 points more Democratic than the rolls.
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
| Year | Total registered | Democratic | Republican | Unaffiliated | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (partial) | 95,358 | 29,138 | 26,806 | 39,414 | 0 |
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+786 net domestic migration · 2025
Net +3,939 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
| Year | Net domestic migration |
|---|---|
| 2011 | −461 |
| 2012 | −893 |
| 2013 | −96 |
| 2014 | −156 |
| 2015 | −930 |
| 2016 | +244 |
| 2017 | −107 |
| 2018 | −21 |
| 2019 | +258 |
| 2021 | +1,333 |
| 2022 | +3,044 |
| 2023 | +496 |
| 2024 | +442 |
| 2025 | +786 |
This small cross-border metro anchors New Hampshire's western edge and Vermont's eastern strip, where college-town demographics around Dartmouth consistently push presidential margins closer than either state's broader rural precincts.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.5 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 57.9 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.0 points.
A population of 223,586, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,244 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Portland-South Portland, ME and Keene, NH.
The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
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Lebanon-Claremont, NH-VT, New Hampshire. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cbsa/30150/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.