Amarillo, TX · 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 Amarillo, TX, 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 Amarillo, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
143,093
2018
150,512
2020
158,317
2022
160,906
2024
166,852
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+673 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −4,895 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Amarillo, TX in Amarillo, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,097
2012
−447
2013
−1,205
2014
−656
2015
−1,489
2016
−644
2017
−591
2018
−1,345
2019
−824
2021
+739
2022
−316
2023
+534
2024
−421
2025
+673
Amarillo anchors the Texas Panhandle, a high-plains energy and agriculture economy where voter registration and turnout patterns track closely with rural commodity cycles and evangelical church density, making it one of the most reliably one-sided metros in the state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 77.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 61.0 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 56.6 points.
A population of 271,917, a 57% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,728 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Abilene, TX and Wichita Falls, TX.
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In 2024, Amarillo, TX, Texas voted Republican by 56.6 points (R+56.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 104,282 votes cast, 22,124 went Democratic and 81,111 went Republican.
When did Amarillo, TX, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Amarillo, TX, Texas voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Amarillo, TX, Texas?
Amarillo, TX, Texas has a population of 271,917 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Amarillo, TX, Texas?
Median household income in Amarillo, TX, Texas is $70,728 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Amarillo, TX, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Amarillo, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 19 went Republican.
