Bloomington-Bedford, IN · 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
58.1%
52,228 votes · D+17.4
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 52.6%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
65.7%
21,763 votes · R+32.0
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · 63.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
52,228votes
58.1% of the vote · D+17.4
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 47,242 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
44,958votes
47.8% of the vote · D+2.4
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 44,194 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
James M. Cox1920
+15.5pts D vs U.S.
Place R+10.7 · U.S. R+26.2
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +10.2 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1960
+26.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.8 · U.S. D+0.2
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +26.9 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Bloomington-Bedford, IN · 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 Bloomington-Bedford, IN, 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.
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Bloomington-Bedford, IN
Year
Total registered
2016
160,712
2018
138,435
2020
145,117
2022
146,812
2024
144,548
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+625 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −1,234 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Bloomington-Bedford, IN in Bloomington-Bedford, IN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+288
2012
−292
2013
−948
2014
−340
2015
−574
2016
+145
2017
−110
2018
−713
2019
−450
2021
+4,408
2022
−454
2023
−1,485
2024
−1,334
2025
+625
Bloomington-Bedford, IN sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 18.2 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 32.0 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.4 points.
A population of 207,671, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,644 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Kalamazoo-Battle Creek-Portage, MI and Lansing-East Lansing-Owosso, MI.
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Political twins — combined metros
The combined 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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How did Bloomington-Bedford, IN, Indiana vote in 2024?
In 2024, Bloomington-Bedford, IN, Indiana voted a near-tie (D+0.4), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 90,352 votes cast, 44,577 went Democratic and 44,194 went Republican.
When did Bloomington-Bedford, IN, Indiana last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Bloomington-Bedford, IN, Indiana voted Republican was 2016.
How many people live in Bloomington-Bedford, IN, Indiana?
Bloomington-Bedford, IN, Indiana has a population of 207,671 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bloomington-Bedford, IN, Indiana?
Median household income in Bloomington-Bedford, IN, Indiana is $65,644 — below the national median of $80,734. The Indiana state median is $71,957.
What is the political history of Bloomington-Bedford, IN, Indiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bloomington-Bedford, IN, Indiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
