Participation measured against the same-year citizen voting-age population. Audited cycles count total general-election participants — ballots or participating voters, not presidential candidate votes.
2022–20242 cycles · 2 audited
2024 turnout
97.1%34,083 participants ÷ 35,097 CVAP
Participation by cycle
Presidential Midterm
0%20%40%60%80%100%
74.1%
20222024
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Cycle
Participants
CVAP
Turnout
Series
Quality
34,083
35,097 ± 1,895
97.1%
Audited
E/A
2022Mid
19,739
26,623 ± 1,617
74.1%
Audited
E/A
Sources and methods
2024: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 323/229.
2022: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 322/184.
presidential history
Party record book
Lakewood Ranch, FL · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
2004–2024 · 6 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
40.3%
10,054 votes · R+18.5
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 38.5%
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
67.0%
6,515 votes · R+34.8
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 64.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
11,861votes
35.0% of the vote · R+28.7
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 10,054 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
21,581votes
63.8% of the vote · R+28.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 14,660 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
Joe Biden2020
−22.9pts D vs U.S.
Place R+18.5 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · −24.8 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+38.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.8 · U.S. D+3.9
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +29.4 pts
U.S. House elections · 2 House
U.S. House
Each row shows U.S. House votes counted inside this Place. “Vote lead” is the local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Lakewood Ranch · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Lakewood Ranch, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
Lakewood Ranch has added tens of thousands of residents in under two decades, transforming a former cattle ranch into one of the nation's top-selling planned developments and pushing Manatee County's voter rolls steadily upward.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 34.8 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 10.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 28.7 points.
A population of 43,945, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $122,925 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of East Lake and Palm City.
Akashic
Political twins — cities
The cities 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.
In 2024, Lakewood Ranch, Florida voted Republican by 28.7 points (R+28.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 33,843 votes cast, 11,861 went Democratic and 21,581 went Republican.
How many people live in Lakewood Ranch, Florida?
Lakewood Ranch, Florida has a population of 43,945 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lakewood Ranch, Florida?
Median household income in Lakewood Ranch, Florida is $122,925 — above the national median of $80,734. The Florida state median is $74,568.
What is the political history of Lakewood Ranch, Florida?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Lakewood Ranch, Florida from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 0 went Democratic and 6 went Republican.
