Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH · 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 Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH, 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 Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH
Year
Total registered
2016
2,549,196
2018
2,603,886
2020
2,609,294
2022
2,586,142
2024
2,611,726
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+1,987 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −137,536 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH in Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−16,899
2012
−14,751
2013
−7,178
2014
−10,057
2015
−16,405
2016
−15,527
2017
−12,213
2018
−10,550
2019
−10,603
2021
−16,220
2022
−4,571
2023
−2,236
2024
−2,313
2025
+1,987
Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 40.9 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 3.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.1 points.
A population of 3,749,107, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,028 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor, MI and Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD.
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How did Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH, Ohio vote in 2024?
In 2024, Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH, Ohio voted Republican by 1.1 points (R+1.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,857,379 votes cast, 909,857 went Democratic and 930,834 went Republican.
When did Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH, Ohio last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH, Ohio voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH, Ohio?
Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH, Ohio has a population of 3,749,107 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH, Ohio?
Median household income in Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH, Ohio is $71,028 — below the national median of $80,734. The Ohio state median is $71,389.
What is the political history of Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH, Ohio?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH, Ohio from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 19 went Democratic and 14 went Republican.
