Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR · 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
96.5%
79,348 votes · D+93.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 90.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
66.1%
209,131 votes · R+34.2
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 51.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
334,354votes
56.7% of the vote · D+14.1
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 322,871 votes
Republican
John McCain2008
251,209votes
42.6% of the vote · D+14.1
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 247,658 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1940
+70.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+80.7 · U.S. D+9.9
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +70.6 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+22.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+0.2 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +11.1 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.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR · 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 Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama7Clinton4139,914 votes · 11 of 11 countiesprimary
○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
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
818,408
2018
876,951
2020
909,105
2022
910,980
2024
938,489
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−10,806 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −99,682 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−4,059
2012
−2,432
2013
−9,567
2014
−8,731
2015
−8,604
2016
−7,617
2017
−6,440
2018
−4,641
2019
−4,505
2021
−6,003
2022
−6,713
2023
−9,064
2024
−10,500
2025
−10,806
Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR sits in the Deep South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 93.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 34.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 6.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.9 points.
A population of 1,384,864, a 40% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,557 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Columbia-Sumter-Orangeburg, SC and Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL.
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The combined metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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How did Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi vote in 2024?
In 2024, Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi voted Democratic by 6.9 points (D+6.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 517,850 votes cast, 272,304 went Democratic and 236,481 went Republican.
When did Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi?
Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi has a population of 1,384,864 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi?
Median household income in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi is $66,557 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 29 went Democratic and 3 went Republican.
