Bloomington, 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
Barack Obama2008
63.1%
45,020 votes · D+27.3
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 57.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1960
64.3%
18,213 votes · R+29.3
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 63.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
45,020votes
63.1% of the vote · D+27.3
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 42,281 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
29,357votes
40.2% of the vote · D+17.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 28,364 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
+20.6pts D vs U.S.
Place R+5.6 · U.S. R+26.2
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +20.0 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1960
+29.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.3 · U.S. D+0.2
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +21.1 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Bloomington, IN · 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 Bloomington, 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 Bloomington, IN
Year
Total registered
2016
127,271
2018
107,768
2020
112,579
2022
113,464
2024
109,787
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+125 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −2,518 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Bloomington, IN in Bloomington, IN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+259
2012
−332
2013
−769
2014
−208
2015
−547
2016
+110
2017
−233
2018
−827
2019
−286
2021
+4,198
2022
−906
2023
−1,432
2024
−1,670
2025
+125
Home to Indiana University's flagship campus, the Bloomington metro votes markedly more Democratic than its surrounding rural counties, with Biden carrying Monroe County by roughly 30 points in 2020.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.3 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 29.3 points in 1960. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.2 points.
A population of 162,569, a 83% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,416 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Columbia, MO and Missoula, MT.
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In 2024, Bloomington, IN, Indiana voted Democratic by 16.2 points (D+16.2), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 69,132 votes cast, 39,567 went Democratic and 28,364 went Republican.
When did Bloomington, IN, Indiana last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Bloomington, IN, Indiana voted Republican was 2000.
How many people live in Bloomington, IN, Indiana?
Bloomington, IN, Indiana has a population of 162,569 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bloomington, IN, Indiana?
Median household income in Bloomington, IN, Indiana is $65,416 — below the national median of $80,734. The Indiana state median is $71,957.
What is the political history of Bloomington, IN, Indiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bloomington, IN, Indiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 19 went Republican.
