HarrisDemocratic52.4%16,548,697TrumpRepublican45.8%14,474,018OtherAll other candidates1.8%574,599
D+6.6- Lead
- 2,074,679
- Total
- 31,597,314
- vs nation
- D+8.0
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Yankeedom · 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.
| Party | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Clinton230Obama202All others6Edwards17,351,553 votes · 439 of 470 countiescaucus + primary | Obama39157,643 votes · 39 of 470 countiesprimary | Sanders387Clinton747,398,646 votes · 461 of 470 countiescaucus + primary | Biden376Sanders53Buttigieg20Klobuchar11Warren18,003,205 votes · 461 of 470 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.
The counts above exclude 9 of this place’s 470 counties, which are Connecticut planning regions. Connecticut’s primary returns are keyed to the eight counties retired as county-equivalents in 2022, and the planning regions that replaced them cross those lines. The presidential record elsewhere on this page crosses that boundary because a general-election county row carries each party’s votes, and votes can be apportioned and disclosed as an estimate. A primary county row carries a leader and a lead over the runner-up and nothing else: there is no per-candidate vote to apportion, and who led is not a quantity that can be weighted. So the record is complete and published — at Connecticut’s state contest, not at this grain. See Connecticut’s Democratic presidential primary.
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.