Deep South · 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. Roosevelt1936
88.8%
1,357,404 votes · D+78.0
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 88.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
71.0%
4,773,308 votes · R+43.2
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 61.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
9,644,058votes
45.7% of the vote · R+7.3
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 8,984,271 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,752,578votes
56.0% of the vote · R+13.2
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 11,189,656 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
+82.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+57.1 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +73.9 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+36.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+13.5 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +20.0 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Deep South · 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 Deep South, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama304Clinton185Edwards114,627,848 votes · 500 of 500 countiesprimary
Obama121All others18387,513 votes · 139 of 500 countiesprimary
Clinton487Sanders133,340,342 votes · 500 of 500 countiesprimary
Biden499Sanders13,959,930 votes · 500 of 500 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.
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 · 2023R+9.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+13.2
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 3.6 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Deep South
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
916,209
468,200
252,231
195,198
580
2012 (partial)
1,011,480
480,965
275,558
252,041
2,916
2017 (partial)
8,115,453
2,895,326
3,096,169
2,079,773
44,185
2019 (partial)
8,582,476
3,013,507
3,257,913
2,214,296
96,760
2021 (partial)
9,042,759
3,075,614
3,485,489
2,317,603
164,053
2023 (partial)
8,561,859
2,686,185
3,505,053
2,163,074
207,547
Deep South sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 78.2 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 43.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 5.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 13.2 points.
A population of 46,731,541, a 55% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,434 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Greater Appalachia and New France.
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In 2024, Deep South, United States voted Republican by 13.2 points (R+13.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 20,972,693 votes cast, 8,984,271 went Democratic and 11,752,578 went Republican.
When did Deep South, United States last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Deep South, United States voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Deep South, United States?
Deep South, United States has a population of 46,731,541 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Deep South, United States?
Median household income in Deep South, United States is $71,434 — below the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $74,568.
What is the political history of Deep South, United States?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Deep South, United States from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 20 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.
