○ 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.

A national total sums every state that reported, primaries and caucuses alike. A caucus is a different franchise — different participation rules, and a reported measure that is often state-delegate equivalents rather than raw attendees — so a national vote figure is a sum across universes rather than one comparable electorate. Follow a cycle to its states to see which ran which.

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.