Cleveland, MS · which candidate this place backed 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 this place is a single county: Bolivar County, Mississippi. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Cleveland, MS, 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 Cleveland, MS
Year
Total registered
2016
27,144
2018
23,627
2020
24,319
2022
20,680
2024
20,245
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−210 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −6,544 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Cleveland, MS in Cleveland, MS: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−483
2012
+45
2013
−163
2014
−226
2015
−706
2016
−739
2017
−848
2018
−666
2019
−519
2021
−512
2022
−677
2023
−517
2024
−323
2025
−210
Cleveland anchors Bolivar County in the Mississippi Delta, a region where Black residents constitute roughly two-thirds of the population and turnout patterns reflect decades of shifting voter registration drives and local political organizing.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 91.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 73.0 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 7.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.7 points.
A population of 29,534, a 31% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $39,585 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Clarksdale, MS and Selma, AL.
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In 2024, Cleveland, MS, Mississippi voted Democratic by 23.7 points (D+23.7), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 10,435 votes cast, 6,419 went Democratic and 3,943 went Republican.
When did Cleveland, MS, Mississippi last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Cleveland, MS, Mississippi voted Republican was 1972.
How many people live in Cleveland, MS, Mississippi?
Cleveland, MS, Mississippi has a population of 29,534 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Cleveland, MS, Mississippi?
Median household income in Cleveland, MS, Mississippi is $39,585 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of Cleveland, MS, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Cleveland, MS, Mississippi from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 24 went Democratic and 3 went Republican.
