Cedar Rapids, IA · 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 Cedar Rapids, IA, 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
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+3.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+3.0
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 0.9 points.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Cedar Rapids, IA
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008
178,631
64,567
46,153
67,818
93
2010
180,340
63,408
49,056
67,683
193
2012
186,524
63,722
50,813
71,687
302
2014
185,560
62,285
49,752
72,851
672
2016
186,377
63,555
51,667
69,859
1,296
2018
186,360
62,915
50,207
71,307
1,931
2020
193,452
71,328
55,038
65,080
2,006
2022
195,326
68,875
55,388
68,991
2,072
2024
197,060
64,728
57,157
73,042
2,133
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+849 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −781 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Cedar Rapids, IA in Cedar Rapids, IA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,095
2012
−486
2013
−695
2014
+83
2015
+447
2016
+419
2017
+920
2018
+231
2019
−149
2021
−1,263
2022
−1,381
2023
−1,387
2024
+536
2025
+849
Cedar Rapids anchors Linn County, a bellwether that has swung between parties in recent cycles as its workforce blends legacy industrial employment with a growing share of degree-holders reshaping suburban precincts.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 45.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.0 points.
A population of 276,624, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,204 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA and Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL.
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In 2024, Cedar Rapids, IA, Iowa voted Democratic by 3.0 points (D+3.0), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 148,448 votes cast, 75,039 went Democratic and 70,606 went Republican.
When did Cedar Rapids, IA, Iowa last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Cedar Rapids, IA, Iowa voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in Cedar Rapids, IA, Iowa?
Cedar Rapids, IA, Iowa has a population of 276,624 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Cedar Rapids, IA, Iowa?
Median household income in Cedar Rapids, IA, Iowa is $78,204 — below the national median of $80,734. The Iowa state median is $75,059.
What is the political history of Cedar Rapids, IA, Iowa?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Cedar Rapids, IA, Iowa from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 18 went Republican.
