Clarksville, TN-KY · 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
74.9%
24,139 votes · D+49.9
Runner-up · Harry S. Truman, 1948 · 67.4%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
62.2%
72,952 votes · R+25.9
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 60.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
43,791votes
38.3% of the vote · R+20.9
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 42,618 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
72,952votes
62.2% of the vote · R+25.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 67,704 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
Adlai Stevenson1956
+48.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+32.9 · U.S. R+15.4
Runner-up · Adlai Stevenson, 1952 · +41.2 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+27.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+25.7 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +25.4 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.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Clarksville, TN-KY · 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 Clarksville, TN-KY, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton425,887 votes · 4 of 4 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Clinton3Sanders115,662 votes · 4 of 4 countiesprimary
Biden419,825 votes · 4 of 4 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
Registered voters
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Clarksville, TN-KY
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
119,901
2018 (partial)
118,329
2020 (partial)
140,750
2022 (partial)
148,997
2024
227,129
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−530 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +11,621 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Clarksville, TN-KY in Clarksville, TN-KY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−701
2012
+4,161
2013
−6,350
2014
+380
2015
−1,141
2016
−2,765
2017
+2,022
2018
+3,160
2019
+696
2021
+5,250
2022
+3,839
2023
+901
2024
+2,699
2025
−530
The Clarksville metro's outsized military presence drives unusually high population turnover, compressing long-term partisan loyalty and making registration patterns a lagging indicator of actual voting-age composition.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 49.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 25.9 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.9 points.
A population of 334,564, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,081 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Valdosta, GA and Tuscaloosa, AL.
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How did Clarksville, TN-KY, Kentucky vote in 2024?
In 2024, Clarksville, TN-KY, Kentucky voted Republican by 25.9 points (R+25.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 117,242 votes cast, 42,618 went Democratic and 72,952 went Republican.
When did Clarksville, TN-KY, Kentucky last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Clarksville, TN-KY, Kentucky voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Clarksville, TN-KY, Kentucky?
Clarksville, TN-KY, Kentucky has a population of 334,564 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Clarksville, TN-KY, Kentucky?
Median household income in Clarksville, TN-KY, Kentucky is $70,081 — below the national median of $80,734. The Kentucky state median is $63,726.
What is the political history of Clarksville, TN-KY, Kentucky?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Clarksville, TN-KY, Kentucky from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
