Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 11,483,333 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
Al Gore2000
+16.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+17.1 · U.S. D+0.5
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +14.7 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+20.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.3 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +13.8 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Northeast · 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 Northeast, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton160Obama497,232,162 votes · 209 of 218 countiescaucus + primary
Sanders135Clinton746,256,584 votes · 209 of 218 countiescaucus + primary
Biden176Sanders30Buttigieg36,306,198 votes · 209 of 218 countiesprimary
○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 218 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.
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 · 2026D+15.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+9.4
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 5.6 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 Northeast
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2025 (partial)
8,570,648
2,534,055
1,263,353
4,624,440
148,800
2026 (partial)
30,722,128
13,354,715
8,734,766
7,686,692
945,955
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−205,552 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −3,651,851 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Northeast in Northeast: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−142,946
2012
−189,793
2013
−200,669
2014
−250,055
2015
−310,141
2016
−344,442
2017
−292,751
2018
−274,763
2019
−272,272
2021
−288,705
2022
−426,289
2023
−274,149
2024
−179,324
2025
−205,552
Northeast sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 36.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 37.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 7.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.4 points.
A population of 57,414,970, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,943 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of West and Midwest.
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The census regions 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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Northeast, United States. Akashic. https://akashic.app/region/northeast/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
In 2024, Northeast, United States voted Democratic by 9.4 points (D+9.4), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 27,366,958 votes cast, 14,756,616 went Democratic and 12,185,941 went Republican.
When did Northeast, United States last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Northeast, United States voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Northeast, United States?
Northeast, United States has a population of 57,414,970 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Northeast, United States?
Median household income in Northeast, United States is $92,943 — above the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $95,781.
What is the political history of Northeast, United States?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Northeast, United States from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
