Akron, OH · 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 Akron, OH, 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 Akron, OH
Year
Total registered
2016
467,949
2018
482,453
2020
488,557
2022
480,129
2024
493,857
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+1,155 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −14,511 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Akron, OH in Akron, OH: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,861
2012
−2,736
2013
−778
2014
−1,092
2015
−2,499
2016
−2,875
2017
−881
2018
−1,044
2019
−1,190
2021
−4,244
2022
+2,391
2023
+678
2024
+465
2025
+1,155
Once the global center of tire manufacturing, Akron's metro has shifted steadily toward Democrats at the presidential level as its blue-collar base contracted and a younger, college-educated workforce grew around the University of Akron and area health systems.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 43.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.7 points.
A population of 699,820, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,581 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Cleveland, OH and Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD.
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In 2024, Akron, OH, Ohio voted Democratic by 1.7 points (D+1.7), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 356,797 votes cast, 179,764 went Democratic and 173,591 went Republican.
When did Akron, OH, Ohio last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Akron, OH, Ohio voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in Akron, OH, Ohio?
Akron, OH, Ohio has a population of 699,820 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Akron, OH, Ohio?
Median household income in Akron, OH, Ohio is $72,581 — below the national median of $80,734. The Ohio state median is $71,389.
What is the political history of Akron, OH, Ohio?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Akron, OH, Ohio from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 11 went Republican.
