West 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. Roosevelt1932
83.5%
1,726,524 votes · D+67.4
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 79.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
67.6%
4,190,524 votes · R+37.0
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 63.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
7,043,071votes
43.3% of the vote · R+11.6
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 6,498,624 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
9,397,556votes
58.2% of the vote · R+18.0
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 8,927,131 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
+59.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+34.0 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · +57.1 pts
Republican
John McCain2008
+23.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+15.8 · U.S. D+7.3
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +22.5 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.
West 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 West South Central, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton394Obama72All others13,990,773 votes · 467 of 470 countiesprimary
Obama275All others118865,582 votes · 393 of 470 countiesprimary
Clinton377Sanders932,304,534 votes · 470 of 470 countiesprimary
Biden423Sanders41Bloomberg5Warren12,895,115 votes · 470 of 470 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.
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+28.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+18.0
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 10 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 West South Central
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
2,406,168
609,265
1,282,277
491,294
23,332
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+81,879 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +1,852,566 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in West South Central in West South Central: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+136,426
2012
+148,303
2013
+117,734
2014
+155,342
2015
+174,394
2016
+104,477
2017
+50,028
2018
+53,905
2019
+105,952
2021
+215,315
2022
+215,062
2023
+197,880
2024
+95,869
2025
+81,879
West South Central sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 67.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 37.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the division moved 6.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.0 points.
A population of 41,878,410, a 45% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $75,507 describe the division. The division's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of East South Central and Mountain.
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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 West South Central, United States vote in 2024?
In 2024, West South Central, United States voted Republican by 18.0 points (R+18.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 16,144,498 votes cast, 6,498,624 went Democratic and 9,397,556 went Republican.
When did West South Central, United States last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which West South Central, United States voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in West South Central, United States?
West South Central, United States has a population of 41,878,410 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in West South Central, United States?
Median household income in West South Central, United States is $75,507 — below the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $60,773.
What is the political history of West South Central, United States?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in West South Central, United States from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
