Burlington, IA-IL · 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
67.6%
16,165 votes · D+35.5
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 60.2%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
66.5%
11,034 votes · R+41.3
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 65.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
16,165votes
67.6% of the vote · D+35.5
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 14,725 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
15,021votes
59.5% of the vote · R+19.3
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · 14,252 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
Michael Dukakis1988
+26.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+18.5 · U.S. R+7.7
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +23.4 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+34.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+24.9 · U.S. D+9.9
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +23.9 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
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.
Burlington, IA-IL · 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 Burlington, IA-IL, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama21,323 votes · 2 of 2 countiescaucus + primary
Clinton1Sanders12,651 votes · 2 of 2 countiescaucus + primary
Biden1Buttigieg12,419 votes · 2 of 2 countiescaucus + primary
○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 · 2014D+19.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+18.7
Burlington, IA-IL registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 38-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Burlington, IA-IL
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
29,105
14,090
6,189
8,813
13
2010 (partial)
29,212
13,226
6,657
9,311
18
2012 (partial)
29,401
12,904
6,809
9,659
29
2014 (partial)
28,313
12,003
6,492
9,766
52
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+6 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −2,519 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Burlington, IA-IL in Burlington, IA-IL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−300
2012
+8
2013
+83
2014
−290
2015
−234
2016
−387
2017
−332
2018
−303
2019
−191
2021
−220
2022
−286
2023
+37
2024
−110
2025
+6
The Burlington metro straddles the Iowa-Illinois state line, and its two sides have historically split their presidential-level votes by several points, making cross-river comparison a useful stress test for regional partisan models.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 41.3 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 6.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.7 points.
A population of 44,680, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,831 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Fort Madison, IA and Galesburg, IL.
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In 2024, Burlington, IA-IL, Illinois voted Republican by 18.7 points (R+18.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 22,518 votes cast, 8,961 went Democratic and 13,163 went Republican.
When did Burlington, IA-IL, Illinois last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Burlington, IA-IL, Illinois voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Burlington, IA-IL, Illinois?
Burlington, IA-IL, Illinois has a population of 44,680 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Burlington, IA-IL, Illinois?
Median household income in Burlington, IA-IL, Illinois is $62,831 — below the national median of $80,734. The Illinois state median is $83,390.
What is the political history of Burlington, IA-IL, Illinois?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Burlington, IA-IL, Illinois from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 18 went Republican.
