Mountain · 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
William J. Bryan1896
81.2%
308,327 votes · D+63.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 64.6%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
66.1%
3,131,423 votes · R+33.5
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 63.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
5,846,744votes
47.8% of the vote · R+1.7
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 5,633,983 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
6,356,036votes
51.9% of the vote · R+5.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 6,054,092 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
William J. Bryan1896
+69.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+63.1 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +16.1 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+33.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+31.9 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · +22.1 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
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.
Mountain · 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 Mountain, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama192Clinton891,079,706 votes · 281 of 281 countiescaucus + primary
○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
Party registration · 2026R+10.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+5.9
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 4.1 points more Democratic than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Mountain
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
10,225,537
2,739,463
3,758,833
3,346,650
380,591
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+62,734 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +1,783,322 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Mountain in Mountain: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+36,216
2012
+70,519
2013
+79,882
2014
+99,154
2015
+137,566
2016
+179,956
2017
+173,303
2018
+211,330
2019
+211,383
2021
+220,677
2022
+148,323
2023
+73,506
2024
+78,773
2025
+62,734
Mountain sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 63.1 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 33.5 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the division moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.9 points.
A population of 25,571,750, a 60% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,529 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.
Akashic
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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In 2024, Mountain, United States voted Republican by 5.9 points (R+5.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 12,256,686 votes cast, 5,633,983 went Democratic and 6,356,036 went Republican.
When did Mountain, United States last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Mountain, United States voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Mountain, United States?
Mountain, United States has a population of 25,571,750 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Mountain, United States?
Median household income in Mountain, United States is $84,529 — above the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $79,964.
What is the political history of Mountain, United States?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Mountain, United States from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
