Albany, GA · 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 Albany, GA, 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 Albany, GA
Year
Total registered
2016
104,367
2018
106,623
2020
112,746
2022
116,386
2024
117,270
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−359 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −16,484 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Albany, GA in Albany, GA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−725
2012
−1,480
2013
−2,237
2014
−1,467
2015
−2,268
2016
−1,812
2017
−1,532
2018
−641
2019
−1,516
2021
−2,955
2022
+996
2023
−320
2024
−168
2025
−359
Albany's Dougherty County votes heavily Democratic in a region where surrounding rural counties trend strongly Republican, creating one of Georgia's sharpest intra-metro partisan contrasts within a 50-mile radius.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 57.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.6 points.
A population of 146,018, a 40% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,461 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Macon-Bibb County, GA and Rocky Mount, NC.
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In 2024, Albany, GA, Georgia voted Democratic by 2.6 points (D+2.6), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 65,183 votes cast, 33,341 went Democratic and 31,625 went Republican.
When did Albany, GA, Georgia last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Albany, GA, Georgia voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Albany, GA, Georgia?
Albany, GA, Georgia has a population of 146,018 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Albany, GA, Georgia?
Median household income in Albany, GA, Georgia is $59,461 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Albany, GA, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Albany, GA, Georgia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 27 went Democratic and 6 went Republican.
