The Left Coast · 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
Joe Biden2020
67.1%
6,415,788 votes · D+37.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 66.4%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
66.6%
207,643 votes · R+44.9
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 62.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
6,415,788votes
67.1% of the vote · D+37.1
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 5,720,044 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
2,872,742votes
30.1% of the vote · D+37.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 2,804,932 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
Kamala Harris2024
+34.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+32.9 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +33.1 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+25.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+44.9 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +17.2 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
The Left Coast · 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 The Left Coast, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama38Clinton132,191,063 votes · 51 of 61 countiescaucus + primary
Obama25722,155 votes · 25 of 61 countiesprimary
Sanders51Clinton102,209,496 votes · 61 of 61 countiescaucus + primary
Biden44Sanders173,780,246 votes · 61 of 61 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+2.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+32.9
The Left Coast registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 36-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 The Left Coast
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
63,051
9,818
11,523
40,824
886
The Left Coast sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.1 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 44.9 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.9 points.
A population of 18,490,172, a 55% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $115,365 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Federal Entity and Greater Polynesia.
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Political twins — American Nations
The American Nations 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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The Left Coast, United States. Akashic. https://akashic.app/nations/left-coast/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
How did The Left Coast, United States vote in 2024?
In 2024, The Left Coast, United States voted Democratic by 32.9 points (D+32.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 8,859,340 votes cast, 5,720,044 went Democratic and 2,804,932 went Republican.
When did The Left Coast, United States last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which The Left Coast, United States voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in The Left Coast, United States?
The Left Coast, United States has a population of 18,490,172 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in The Left Coast, United States?
Median household income in The Left Coast, United States is $115,365 — above the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $83,011.
What is the political history of The Left Coast, United States?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in The Left Coast, United States from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 19 went Democratic and 14 went Republican.
