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
Hillary Clinton2016
+23.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+25.1 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +21.2 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+21.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+41.0 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · +19.2 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.
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.
Pacific · 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 Pacific, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama84Clinton535,775,370 votes · 137 of 167 countiescaucus + primary
Obama882,076,339 votes · 88 of 167 countiesprimary
Sanders135Clinton325,875,499 votes · 167 of 167 countiescaucus + primary
Biden103Sanders648,016,475 votes · 167 of 167 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
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+12.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+18.8
Pacific registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 31-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Pacific
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
600,489
69,792
141,851
378,720
10,126
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−231,012 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −2,191,338 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Pacific in Pacific: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−14,257
2012
−23,188
2013
−37,160
2014
−14,570
2015
−16,238
2016
−20,298
2017
−60,628
2018
−104,005
2019
−163,403
2021
−488,980
2022
−378,298
2023
−385,013
2024
−254,288
2025
−231,012
Pacific sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.4 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 44.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the division moved 6.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.8 points.
A population of 53,538,660, a 41% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $100,258 describe the division. The division's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Middle Atlantic and New England.
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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Pacific, United States. Akashic. https://akashic.app/division/pacific/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
In 2024, Pacific, United States voted Democratic by 18.8 points (D+18.8), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 22,889,091 votes cast, 13,215,698 went Democratic and 8,910,219 went Republican.
When did Pacific, United States last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Pacific, United States voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Pacific, United States?
Pacific, United States has a population of 53,538,660 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Pacific, United States?
Median household income in Pacific, United States is $100,258 — above the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $92,788.
What is the political history of Pacific, United States?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Pacific, United States from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
