West North 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
60.6%
3,972,620 votes · D+21.5
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 60.6%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
64.3%
2,768,887 votes · R+33.6
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 61.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
5,004,527votes
49.5% of the vote · D+0.8
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 4,940,084 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
6,040,229votes
55.0% of the vote · R+11.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,925,363 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
Michael Dukakis1988
+5.9pts D vs U.S.
Place R+1.8 · U.S. R+7.7
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +5.7 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+15.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+14.2 · U.S. D+1.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +15.1 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.
West North 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 West North Central, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton234Obama196Edwards291,189,068 votes · 459 of 618 countiescaucus + primary
Sanders317Clinton1941,061,099 votes · 511 of 618 countiescaucus + primary
Biden371Sanders74Buttigieg53Klobuchar14Warren11,814,260 votes · 513 of 618 countiescaucus + primary
○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.
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.
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+23,154 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −197,642 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in West North Central in West North Central: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−21,161
2012
−17,387
2013
−1,281
2014
−21,483
2015
−30,951
2016
−39,004
2017
−20,662
2018
−17,621
2019
−22,536
2021
−3,068
2022
−26,077
2023
−6,511
2024
+6,946
2025
+23,154
West North Central sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.5 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 33.6 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the division moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.8 points.
A population of 21,759,939, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,138 describe the division. The division's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of East South Central and East 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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West North Central, United States. Akashic. https://akashic.app/division/west-north-central/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
How did West North Central, United States vote in 2024?
In 2024, West North Central, United States voted Republican by 11.8 points (R+11.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 10,989,569 votes cast, 4,738,882 went Democratic and 6,040,229 went Republican.
When did West North Central, United States last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which West North Central, United States voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in West North Central, United States?
West North Central, United States has a population of 21,759,939 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in West North Central, United States?
Median household income in West North Central, United States is $79,138 — below the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $75,059.
What is the political history of West North Central, United States?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in West North Central, United States from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 24 went Republican.
