Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH · 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
75.9%
1,220,574 votes · D+52.2
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 66.6%
Republican
William McKinley1896
67.6%
191,621 votes · R+39.4
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 67.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
1,743,643votes
66.6% of the vote · D+35.9
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 1,556,038 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
944,118votes
59.3% of the vote · R+18.8
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 916,900 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
George McGovern1972
+32.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+9.7 · U.S. R+23.2
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +31.4 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+33.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+39.4 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +17.2 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH · 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 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton6Obama1923,276 votes · 7 of 7 countiesprimary
Sanders4Clinton3900,828 votes · 7 of 7 countiesprimary
Biden4Sanders2Buttigieg11,078,560 votes · 7 of 7 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+6.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+28.1
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 34-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
322,518 registered voters · 2026 · down from 3,136,853 in 2025
Democratic28.0%Republican34.0%Unaffiliated38.0%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−29,132 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −255,718 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−5
2012
−2
2013
+995
2014
−6,106
2015
−14,836
2016
−19,437
2017
−18,857
2018
−23,195
2019
−23,252
2021
−35,654
2022
−38,762
2023
−31,283
2024
−16,192
2025
−29,132
Greater Boston holds one of the highest concentrations of college-educated adults in the country, a demographic reality that has steadily widened Democratic margins in federal races while leaving local contests more competitive than the regional reputation suggests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 52.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 39.4 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 7.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 28.1 points.
A population of 4,953,354, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $116,759 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD and Worcester, MA.
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How did Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Massachusetts vote in 2024?
In 2024, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Massachusetts voted Democratic by 28.1 points (D+28.1), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 2,482,071 votes cast, 1,556,038 went Democratic and 858,680 went Republican.
When did Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Massachusetts last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Massachusetts voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Massachusetts?
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Massachusetts has a population of 4,953,354 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Massachusetts?
Median household income in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Massachusetts is $116,759 — above the national median of $80,734. The Massachusetts state median is $103,960.
What is the political history of Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Massachusetts?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Massachusetts from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
