Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL · 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
66.9%
28,409 votes · D+33.9
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · 60.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
66.2%
21,797 votes · R+37.8
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 62.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
28,409votes
66.9% of the vote · D+33.9
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 24,877 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
27,310votes
59.1% of the vote · R+18.5
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 25,466 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
Michael Dukakis1988
+29.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.2 · U.S. R+7.7
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +21.6 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+26.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+16.9 · U.S. D+9.9
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +22.4 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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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.
Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL · 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 Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama2Clinton11,478 votes · 3 of 3 countiescaucus + primary
Clinton2Sanders14,351 votes · 3 of 3 countiescaucus + primary
Buttigieg2Biden13,646 votes · 3 of 3 countiescaucus + primary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2014D+22.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+22.5
Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 44-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
53,553
25,493
10,436
17,596
28
2010 (partial)
53,035
23,897
11,202
17,892
44
2012 (partial)
53,806
23,606
11,481
18,657
62
2014 (partial)
52,251
22,359
10,888
18,906
98
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−91 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −5,100 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL in Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−559
2012
−2
2013
−215
2014
−439
2015
−390
2016
−801
2017
−526
2018
−582
2019
−410
2021
−366
2022
−524
2023
−113
2024
−82
2025
−91
Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL sits in the Corn Belt. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 37.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 7.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 22.5 points.
A population of 77,573, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,641 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Youngstown-Warren-Salem, OH and Davenport-Moline, IA-IL.
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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 Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL, Iowa vote in 2024?
In 2024, Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL, Iowa voted Republican by 22.5 points (R+22.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 38,716 votes cast, 14,620 went Democratic and 23,315 went Republican.
When did Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL, Iowa last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL, Iowa voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL, Iowa?
Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL, Iowa has a population of 77,573 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL, Iowa?
Median household income in Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL, Iowa is $62,641 — below the national median of $80,734. The Iowa state median is $83,390.
What is the political history of Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL, Iowa?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Burlington-Fort Madison, IA-IL, Iowa from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 18 went Republican.
