Austin, MN · 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: Mower County, Minnesota. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Austin, MN, 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 Austin, MN
Year
Total registered
2016
21,358
2018
20,509
2020
22,695
2022
22,366
2024
23,742
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+18 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −2,098 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Austin, MN in Austin, MN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−30
2012
−170
2013
−218
2014
−169
2015
−318
2016
−191
2017
+1
2018
+90
2019
−372
2021
−27
2022
−397
2023
−289
2024
−26
2025
+18
Austin's large immigrant workforce—drawn by the Hormel Foods plant—has shifted its demographic profile steadily over recent decades, producing voter coalitions that diverge from the surrounding rural Minnesota baseline.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 68.3 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.5 points.
A population of 40,343, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,074 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Albert Lea, MN and Mason City, IA.
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In 2024, Austin, MN, Minnesota voted Republican by 10.5 points (R+10.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 18,969 votes cast, 8,312 went Democratic and 10,297 went Republican.
When did Austin, MN, Minnesota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Austin, MN, Minnesota voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Austin, MN, Minnesota?
Austin, MN, Minnesota has a population of 40,343 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Austin, MN, Minnesota?
Median household income in Austin, MN, Minnesota is $73,074 — below the national median of $80,734. The Minnesota state median is $89,062.
What is the political history of Austin, MN, Minnesota?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Austin, MN, Minnesota from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
