Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, 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 Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, 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 Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH
Year
Total registered
2016
1,647,960
2018
1,715,413
2020
1,734,700
2022
1,738,824
2024
1,773,490
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+5,506 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +48,816 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH in Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,466
2012
−683
2013
+4,819
2014
+7,277
2015
+5,671
2016
+3,363
2017
+12,860
2018
+5,918
2019
+3,237
2021
−7,080
2022
+3,523
2023
+2,154
2024
+785
2025
+5,506
Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 12.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 37.9 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 3.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.4 points.
A population of 2,641,778, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $80,515 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS and Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA.
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How did Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH, Ohio vote in 2024?
In 2024, Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH, Ohio voted Republican by 2.4 points (R+2.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,258,802 votes cast, 607,758 went Democratic and 638,162 went Republican.
When did Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH, Ohio last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH, Ohio voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH, Ohio?
Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH, Ohio has a population of 2,641,778 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH, Ohio?
Median household income in Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH, Ohio is $80,515 — below the national median of $80,734. The Ohio state median is $71,389.
What is the political history of Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH, Ohio?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH, Ohio from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 7 went Democratic and 27 went Republican.
