Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA · 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 Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA, 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.
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voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+11.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+13.9
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 2.4 points.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008
296,293
115,649
71,032
109,364
248
2010
301,814
113,920
75,809
111,553
532
2012
314,353
115,686
79,554
118,366
747
2014
311,353
112,558
77,684
119,723
1,388
2016
312,790
117,863
80,908
111,635
2,384
2018
313,105
117,567
77,586
114,759
3,193
2020
322,987
133,604
82,348
103,800
3,235
2022
325,034
129,075
82,479
110,197
3,283
2024
327,885
122,634
84,720
117,139
3,392
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+717 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +224 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA in Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,673
2012
+715
2013
+144
2014
+476
2015
+723
2016
+333
2017
+1,339
2018
−284
2019
−1,146
2021
−671
2022
−1,357
2023
−2,279
2024
−159
2025
+717
Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA sits in the Corn Belt. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 38.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 13.9 points.
A population of 455,824, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,954 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Madison-Janesville-Beloit, WI and Des Moines-West Des Moines-Ames, IA.
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How did Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA, Iowa vote in 2024?
In 2024, Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA, Iowa voted Democratic by 13.9 points (D+13.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 246,680 votes cast, 138,182 went Democratic and 103,812 went Republican.
When did Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA, Iowa last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA, Iowa voted Republican was 1980.
How many people live in Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA, Iowa?
Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA, Iowa has a population of 455,824 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA, Iowa?
Median household income in Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA, Iowa is $76,954 — below the national median of $80,734. The Iowa state median is $75,059.
What is the political history of Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA, Iowa?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA, Iowa from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
