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
+20.0pts D vs U.S.
Place R+5.2 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +18.7 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+26.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+24.7 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +25.0 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Greater Appalachia · 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 Greater Appalachia, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton787Obama127Edwards1All others17,443,902 votes · 916 of 935 countiesprimary
Obama205All others101606,251 votes · 306 of 935 countiesprimary
Clinton525Sanders3924,531,194 votes · 917 of 935 countiesprimary
Biden883Sanders30Bloomberg3Warren15,146,764 votes · 917 of 935 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 That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes.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 · 2026R+23.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+23.8
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 0.2 points.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Greater Appalachia
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
2,732,759
1,099,429
1,002,481
629,230
1,619
2012 (partial)
2,944,126
1,118,530
1,039,392
777,865
8,339
2025 (partial)
566,870
122,546
255,353
179,853
9,118
2026 (partial)
4,418,806
1,196,433
2,239,787
883,794
98,792
Greater Appalachia sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 36.4 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 3.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.8 points.
A population of 63,238,915, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,128 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Deep South and The Midlands.
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How did Greater Appalachia, United States vote in 2024?
In 2024, Greater Appalachia, United States voted Republican by 23.8 points (R+23.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 28,623,719 votes cast, 10,694,403 went Democratic and 17,504,056 went Republican.
When did Greater Appalachia, United States last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Greater Appalachia, United States voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Greater Appalachia, United States?
Greater Appalachia, United States has a population of 63,238,915 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Greater Appalachia, United States?
Median household income in Greater Appalachia, United States is $76,128 — below the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Greater Appalachia, United States?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Greater Appalachia, United States from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
