Bismarck, ND · 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 Bismarck, ND, 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.
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+358 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +12,223 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Bismarck, ND in Bismarck, ND: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,156
2012
+2,071
2013
+2,768
2014
+1,972
2015
+2,035
2016
+814
2017
−136
2018
−694
2019
−43
2021
+705
2022
+393
2023
+280
2024
+544
2025
+358
Bismarck's metro tilts heavily Republican in statewide contests, reflecting its energy-sector workforce and largely non-Native demographic composition, while the city itself hosts the governmental institutions that draw a modestly more diverse professional class.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 43.3 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 68.3 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.8 points.
A population of 136,216, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,869 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Dickinson, ND and Minot, ND.
Akashic
Political twins — metros
The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
Compare two places, side by side
Twelve curated comparisons line up election history, demographics, and the divergence story for two places at a glance. Browse all comparisons →
Cite this page
All citations released under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Akashic Intelligence.
Bismarck, ND, North Dakota. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cbsa/13900/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
License: CC BY 4.0
Embed this page
A live widget for your site — no API key, attribution built in, CC BY 4.0. All widgets & sizes →
In 2024, Bismarck, ND, North Dakota voted Republican by 45.8 points (R+45.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 70,386 votes cast, 18,119 went Democratic and 50,343 went Republican.
When did Bismarck, ND, North Dakota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Bismarck, ND, North Dakota voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Bismarck, ND, North Dakota?
Bismarck, ND, North Dakota has a population of 136,216 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bismarck, ND, North Dakota?
Median household income in Bismarck, ND, North Dakota is $84,869 — above the national median of $80,734. The North Dakota state median is $76,657.
What is the political history of Bismarck, ND, North Dakota?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bismarck, ND, North Dakota from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 4 went Democratic and 29 went Republican.
