New England · 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
72.8%
3,482,590 votes · D+45.8
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 60.9%
Republican
William McKinley1896
68.7%
615,669 votes · R+41.5
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 66.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
4,867,443votes
60.9% of the vote · D+24.4
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 4,493,666 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
3,153,283votes
56.2% of the vote · R+12.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 3,095,519 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+23.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+45.8 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +19.9 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+35.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+41.5 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +17.0 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.
New England · 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 New England, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama36Clinton231,887,130 votes · 59 of 68 countiescaucus + primary
Sanders54Clinton51,724,700 votes · 59 of 68 countiescaucus + primary
Sanders30Biden26Buttigieg32,085,759 votes · 59 of 68 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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.
The counts above exclude 9 of this place’s 68 counties, which are Connecticut planning regions. Connecticut’s primary returns are keyed to the eight counties retired as county-equivalents in 2022, and the planning regions that replaced them cross those lines. The presidential record elsewhere on this page crosses that boundary because a general-election county row carries each party’s votes, and votes can be apportioned and disclosed as an estimate. A primary county row carries a leader and a lead over the runner-up and nothing else: there is no per-candidate vote to apportion, and who led is not a quantity that can be weighted. So the record is complete and published — at Connecticut’s state contest, not at this grain. See Connecticut’s Democratic presidential primary.
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 · 2026D+5.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+18.0
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 13 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 New England
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2025 (partial)
8,570,648
2,534,055
1,263,353
4,624,440
148,800
2026 (partial)
1,646,083
498,902
414,401
732,780
0
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−27,602 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −250,124 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in New England in New England: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−13,764
2012
−16,312
2013
−10,667
2014
−12,756
2015
−32,250
2016
−32,460
2017
−20,834
2018
−21,619
2019
−23,089
2021
+43,201
2022
−38,619
2023
−30,013
2024
−13,340
2025
−27,602
New England sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 45.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 41.5 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the division moved 6.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.0 points.
A population of 15,200,156, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $98,642 describe the division. The division's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Middle Atlantic and Pacific.
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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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In 2024, New England, United States voted Democratic by 18.0 points (D+18.0), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 7,773,006 votes cast, 4,493,666 went Democratic and 3,095,519 went Republican.
When did New England, United States last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which New England, United States voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in New England, United States?
New England, United States has a population of 15,200,156 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in New England, United States?
Median household income in New England, United States is $98,642 — above the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $95,781.
What is the political history of New England, United States?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in New England, United States from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 19 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
