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1892–2024
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census regionNortheast

presidential margin

2004–2024 · Democratic minus Republican

2004D+12.2
2008D+20.0
2012D+18.5
2016D+14.1
2020D+16.9
2024D+9.4
full record · 1892 → 2024

presidential returns

2024 turnout 65.3% of 41,891,061 citizens 18+

YearDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalCVAPTurnout
202414,756,61612,185,941424,40327,366,95841,891,06165.3%
202016,178,95811,433,579437,95928,050,49738,159,38873.5%
201613,657,32710,112,9171,315,61125,085,85537,659,58166.6%
201213,677,0549,344,205358,94423,380,20336,706,99363.7%
200814,521,0779,635,996308,43824,465,51036,196,53067.6%
200413,006,25310,142,996279,83123,429,08135,686,067†65.7%

† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.

2024 presidential margin for NortheastNortheast: an interactive map of its constituent counties, each colored by its Democratic-vs-Republican presidential margin from deep red through neutral to deep blue. County labels carry each county's own margin. Overall: D+9.4 in 2024.
218 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · MIT Election Lab
People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

Irish13.5%9.4%
Italian11.5%4.8%
German11.0%12.5%
English7.7%9.5%
Polish4.2%2.2%
American4.0%5.3%
French2.2%1.6%
French Canadian0.9%—
Puerto Rican4.6%1.8%
Dominican3.1%0.7%
Mexican1.9%11.3%
Ecuadorian1.0%—
Colombian0.8%0.4%
Salvadoran0.6%0.7%
Guatemalan0.5%0.5%
Cuban0.3%0.7%
African American†6.9%9.9%
Jamaican0.9%0.4%
Haitian0.7%0.3%
African0.5%0.5%
Guyanese0.3%—
West Indian0.2%—
Nigerian0.2%0.2%
Trinidadian and Tobagonian0.2%—
Chinese2.1%1.3%
Asian Indian2.0%1.4%
Filipino0.5%0.9%
Korean0.5%0.4%
Vietnamese0.3%0.6%
Pakistani0.3%—
Bangladeshi0.2%—

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

MeasureNortheastUnited States
Median age40.639.1
Age 18–249.0%9.2%
Age 65 and older18.5%17.2%

Household economy

MeasureNortheastUnited States
Median household income$92,943$84,427
Poverty rate11.7%12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)40.4%35.6%

Languages at home

MeasureNortheastUnited States
Speaks a non-English language at home24.3%22.3%
Spanish11.5%13.6%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic1.4%0.7%
Other Indo-European3.8%2.0%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)1.9%1.1%

Religious landscape

MeasureNortheastUnited States
Catholic28.7%18.6%
Evangelical Protestant6.0%16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted51.5%51.5%
Mainline Protestant5.5%5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.

Northeast, United States

presidential history

Presidential margin, 1892–2024

Democratic minus Republican, by election

Presidential margin over timeDemocratic-minus-Republican presidential margin from 1892 to 2024. Most recent: +9.4% in 2024.flipped D · 1992+9.4%DR18922024
Presidential margin over time
YearMargin (D minus R)
1892−2.1%
1896−26.3%
1900−17.1%
1904−23.5%
1908−19.3%
1912+10.7%
1916−9.0%
1920−37.8%
1924−35.0%
1928−13.3%
1932+4.0%
1936+15.9%
1940+5.0%
1944+4.0%
1948−0.6%
1952−11.0%
1956−21.7%
1960+5.6%
1964+36.8%
1968+7.2%
1972−16.1%
1976+3.4%
1980−5.9%
1984−11.2%
1988−1.4%
1992+11.3%
1996+21.7%
2000+17.1%
2004+12.2%
2008+20.0%
2012+18.5%
2016+14.1%
2020+16.9%
2024+9.4%
DemocraticRepublican
34 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
YearWonDemocraticRepublicanOtherMarginSwingvs U.S.Total
D
53.9%Harris14,756,616
44.5%Trump12,185,941
1.6%
D+9.4R+7.5D+10.927,366,958
D
57.7%Biden16,178,958
40.8%Trump11,433,579
1.6%
D+16.9D+2.8D+12.528,050,497
D
54.4%Clinton13,657,327
40.3%Trump10,112,917
5.2%
D+14.1R+4.4D+12.025,085,855
D
58.5%Obama13,677,054
40.0%Romney9,344,205
1.5%
D+18.5R+1.4D+14.723,380,203
D
59.4%Obama14,521,077
39.4%McCain9,635,996
1.3%
D+20.0D+7.7D+12.724,465,510
D
55.5%Kerry13,006,253
43.3%Bush10,142,996
1.2%
D+12.2R+4.8D+14.723,429,081
D
56.2%Gore11,805,921
39.1%Bush8,221,060
4.7%
D+17.1R+4.7D+16.521,018,219
D
55.4%Clinton10,863,779
33.7%Dole6,606,885
10.9%
D+21.7D+10.4D+13.219,598,389
D
46.1%Clinton9,940,136
34.8%Bush7,507,411
19.1%
D+11.3D+12.6D+5.721,579,797
R
48.8%Dukakis9,689,324
50.2%Bush9,960,763
1.0%
R+1.4D+9.8D+6.419,851,102
R
44.2%Mondale9,045,999
55.3%Reagan11,335,999
0.5%
R+11.2R+5.3D+7.020,482,696
R
41.8%Carter8,018,869
47.6%Reagan9,146,699
10.6%
R+5.9R+9.2D+3.919,204,685
D
50.9%Carter9,928,836
47.5%Ford9,271,189
1.6%
D+3.4D+19.4D+1.319,514,061
R
41.5%McGovern8,278,110
57.6%Nixon11,483,333
0.9%
R+16.1R+23.2D+7.119,947,469
D
50.2%Humphrey9,657,520
43.0%Nixon8,278,621
6.8%
D+7.2R+29.6D+7.919,237,979
D
68.3%Johnson13,394,371
31.5%Goldwater6,174,056
0.3%
D+36.8D+31.2D+14.219,621,300
D
52.7%Kennedy10,562,147
47.1%Nixon9,436,475
0.3%
D+5.6D+27.3D+5.520,053,456
R
39.1%Stevenson7,333,308
60.7%Eisenhower11,399,514
0.2%
R+21.7R+10.7R+6.318,776,606
R
44.2%Stevenson8,304,053
55.1%Eisenhower10,364,828
0.7%
R+11.0R+10.3R+0.218,800,832
R
47.2%Truman7,457,364
47.8%Dewey7,554,843
5.0%
R+0.6R+4.6R+5.115,801,359
D
51.8%Roosevelt8,192,491
47.8%Dewey7,556,268
0.4%
D+4.0R+1.0R+3.515,818,668
D
52.2%Roosevelt8,461,711
47.3%Willkie7,654,813
0.5%
D+5.0R+11.0R+5.016,195,771
D
56.6%Roosevelt8,517,748
40.6%Landon6,117,103
2.8%
D+15.9D+11.9R+8.315,062,241
D
50.2%Roosevelt6,151,531
46.1%Hoover5,656,792
3.7%
D+4.0D+17.3R+13.812,258,637
R
42.6%Smith5,143,755
55.9%Hoover6,749,463
1.4%
R+13.3D+21.7D+4.212,066,673
R
25.8%Davis2,241,856
60.8%Coolidge5,289,293
13.4%
R+35.0D+2.7R+9.98,696,070
R
28.0%Cox2,136,982
65.8%Harding5,018,436
6.2%
R+37.8R+28.8R+11.67,629,074
R
43.5%Wilson2,010,781
52.5%Hughes2,425,659
4.0%
R+9.0R+19.7R+12.14,621,412
D
37.6%Wilson1,609,414
27.0%Taft1,152,662
35.4%
D+10.7D+29.9R+8.94,276,466
R
37.5%Bryan1,627,829
56.8%Taft2,463,656
5.7%
R+19.3D+4.3R+9.74,340,758
R
36.0%Parker1,521,529
59.5%Roosevelt2,516,214
4.5%
R+23.5R+6.4R+3.94,228,317
R
39.8%Bryan1,604,483
57.0%McKinley2,295,385
3.2%
R+17.1D+9.2R+9.64,030,062
R
35.1%Bryan1,362,058
61.4%McKinley2,385,174
3.6%
R+26.3R+24.2R+20.33,885,901
R
46.9%Cleveland1,585,797
49.0%Harrison1,657,833
4.1%
R+2.1—R+3.83,383,193
voter registration

Registered voters

By party of registration, over time

Party registration · 2026D+15.0
Presidential vote · 2024D+9.4

Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 5.6 points more Democratic.

Voter registration in NortheastRegistered voters by party of registration, 2025–2026. Latest total 30,722,128 in 2026.7.7M15.4M23M30.7M20252026
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties

† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.

Voter registration in Northeast
YearTotal registeredDemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther
2025 (partial)8,570,6482,534,0551,263,3534,624,440148,800
2026 (partial)30,722,12813,354,7158,734,7667,686,692945,955
Source: State election authorities
domestic migration

Who moves in and out

Net domestic migration over time

−205,552 net domestic migration · 2025

Net domestic migration in Northeast, 2011–2025Yearly net domestic migration (arrivals minus departures). Cumulative −3,651,851 over the window. Sage = net gain, amber = net loss.
20112025

Net −3,651,851 over 2011–2025 · gain loss

Domestic migration in Northeast in Northeast: net domestic migration by year
YearNet 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
Source: Census Population Estimates (net) · IRS SOI (flows)

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.

Political twins — regions

The census regions whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.

West
3.8twin score
2016–2024 trajectorymedian income≠ 12-yr trend
Midwest
0.0twin score
12-yr trendPolish ancestrypopulation scale≠ 2000 margin
South
0.0twin score
German ancestry≠ 2004 margin

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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Frequently asked questions

How did Northeast, United States vote in 2024?
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.