Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY · 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-Schenectady-Troy, NY, 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
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+11.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+9.9
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.7 points.
Domestic migration in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,515
2012
−1,478
2013
−759
2014
−2,553
2015
−2,321
2016
−2,800
2017
−163
2018
−1,674
2019
−3,375
2021
+5,678
2022
−2,246
2023
−373
2024
+1,346
2025
+2,380
The Albany metro's large public-sector workforce and several anchoring colleges produce consistently high Democratic margins in city precincts, while surrounding rural counties temper the overall spread to single digits in most statewide contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 33.3 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.9 points.
A population of 906,052, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,339 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Syracuse, NY and Kingston, NY.
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How did Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, New York vote in 2024?
In 2024, Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, New York voted Democratic by 9.9 points (D+9.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 446,332 votes cast, 243,858 went Democratic and 199,499 went Republican.
When did Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, New York last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, New York voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, New York?
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, New York has a population of 906,052 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, New York?
Median household income in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, New York is $88,339 — above the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.
What is the political history of Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, New York?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, New York from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
