Adrian, MI · which candidate this place backed 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 this place is a single county: Lenawee County, Michigan. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Adrian, MI, by party and cycle.
○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.
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
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Adrian, MI
Year
Total registered
2016
73,564
2018
72,621
2020
79,214
2022
79,894
2024
81,670
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+201 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −1,981 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Adrian, MI in Adrian, MI: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−406
2012
−553
2013
−251
2014
−193
2015
−351
2016
+91
2017
−90
2018
−304
2019
+367
2021
+90
2022
−460
2023
−431
2024
+309
2025
+201
Adrian anchors Lenawee County, a historically competitive stretch of southeastern Michigan that has shifted toward Republican margins in recent cycles while retaining a manufacturing and agricultural workforce that tracks economic indicators closely.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 19.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 54.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.0 points.
A population of 98,415, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,518 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Owosso, MI and Jackson, MI.
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In 2024, Adrian, MI, Michigan voted Republican by 23.0 points (R+23.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 55,016 votes cast, 20,787 went Democratic and 33,463 went Republican.
When did Adrian, MI, Michigan last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Adrian, MI, Michigan voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in Adrian, MI, Michigan?
Adrian, MI, Michigan has a population of 98,415 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Adrian, MI, Michigan?
Median household income in Adrian, MI, Michigan is $70,518 — below the national median of $80,734. The Michigan state median is $72,875.
What is the political history of Adrian, MI, Michigan?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Adrian, MI, Michigan from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 5 went Democratic and 29 went Republican.
