The Midlands · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles · 31 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
62.3%
6,892,145 votes · D+24.9
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 57.5%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
63.7%
4,937,773 votes · R+28.2
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 63.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
8,807,521votes
49.5% of the vote · D+0.6
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 8,535,007 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
8,911,489votes
50.6% of the vote · R+2.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 8,693,961 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+2.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+24.9 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +1.9 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
+10.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+28.2 · U.S. R+17.5
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +9.6 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
The Midlands · 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 Midlands, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton242Obama122Edwards284,585,404 votes · 392 of 467 countiescaucus + primary
Obama86All others1313,513 votes · 99 of 467 countiesprimary
Clinton212Sanders1913,562,281 votes · 403 of 467 countiescaucus + primary
Biden332Buttigieg36Sanders32Klobuchar3Bloomberg13,686,806 votes · 404 of 467 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.
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.
The Midlands sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 24.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 32.8 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 3.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.8 points.
A population of 35,316,105, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,393 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Yankeedom and Greater Appalachia.
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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 Midlands, United States. Akashic. https://akashic.app/nations/midlands/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
In 2024, The Midlands, United States voted Republican by 2.8 points (R+2.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 17,617,510 votes cast, 8,425,289 went Democratic and 8,911,489 went Republican.
When did The Midlands, United States last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which The Midlands, United States voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in The Midlands, United States?
The Midlands, United States has a population of 35,316,105 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in The Midlands, United States?
Median household income in The Midlands, United States is $83,393 — above the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $84,954.
What is the political history of The Midlands, United States?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in The Midlands, United States from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
