Bedford, IN · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
51.2%
8,677 votes · D+2.9
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 49.1%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
74.6%
15,830 votes · R+51.0
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 74.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
8,677votes
51.2% of the vote · D+2.9
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 8,215 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
15,830votes
74.6% of the vote · R+51.0
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 15,601 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
James M. Cox1920
+8.3pts D vs U.S.
Place R+17.9 · U.S. R+26.2
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +1.2 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+55.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+50.6 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +53.2 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Bedford, IN · 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: Lawrence County, Indiana. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Bedford, IN, 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 Bedford, IN
Year
Total registered
2016
33,441
2018
30,667
2020
32,538
2022
33,348
2024
34,761
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+500 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +1,284 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Bedford, IN in Bedford, IN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+29
2012
+40
2013
−179
2014
−132
2015
−27
2016
+35
2017
+123
2018
+114
2019
−164
2021
+210
2022
+452
2023
−53
2024
+336
2025
+500
Bedford anchors Lawrence County in southern Indiana's limestone belt, where working-class manufacturing heritage correlates with voting patterns that have shifted sharply toward Republican margins over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 13.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 51.1 points in 2016. The 2024 margin was 51.0 points.
A population of 45,102, a 93% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,468 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Wabash, IN and Peru, IN.
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In 2024, Bedford, IN, Indiana voted Republican by 51.0 points (R+51.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 21,220 votes cast, 5,010 went Democratic and 15,830 went Republican.
When did Bedford, IN, Indiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Bedford, IN, Indiana voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Bedford, IN, Indiana?
Bedford, IN, Indiana has a population of 45,102 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bedford, IN, Indiana?
Median household income in Bedford, IN, Indiana is $66,468 — below the national median of $80,734. The Indiana state median is $71,957.
What is the political history of Bedford, IN, Indiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bedford, IN, Indiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 1 went Democratic and 32 went Republican.
