East South Central · 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
68.7%
1,265,550 votes · D+38.5
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 67.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
69.5%
2,723,419 votes · R+41.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 63.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
3,305,094votes
37.4% of the vote · R+23.5
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 3,210,009 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
5,514,719votes
63.9% of the vote · R+29.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,376,955 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
John W. Davis1924
+37.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+11.9 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +34.1 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+33.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+11.0 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +28.3 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.
East South Central · 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 East South Central, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton258Obama1062,297,310 votes · 364 of 364 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.
Where a cell reads All others, no named candidate led — the source’s residual bucket did. That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes. It is a total, not a person, so it carries no candidate colour.
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
Registered voters
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in East South Central
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
6,182,713
2018 (partial)
9,708,443
2020 (partial)
10,297,674
2022 (partial)
10,323,821
2024
14,380,658
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+72,099 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +596,248 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in East South Central in East South Central: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+14,376
2012
+15,525
2013
+8,925
2014
+5,219
2015
+5,041
2016
+19,013
2017
+39,363
2018
+32,071
2019
+33,115
2021
+69,814
2022
+114,362
2023
+93,969
2024
+73,356
2025
+72,099
East South Central sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 38.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 41.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the division moved 5.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 29.1 points.
A population of 19,634,754, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,426 describe the division. The division's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of West South Central and West North Central.
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Political twins — divisions
The census divisions 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.
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How did East South Central, United States vote in 2024?
In 2024, East South Central, United States voted Republican by 29.1 points (R+29.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 8,631,570 votes cast, 2,999,388 went Democratic and 5,514,719 went Republican.
When did East South Central, United States last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which East South Central, United States voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in East South Central, United States?
East South Central, United States has a population of 19,634,754 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in East South Central, United States?
Median household income in East South Central, United States is $66,426 — below the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of East South Central, United States?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in East South Central, United States from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
