Cleveland, TN · 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 Cleveland, TN, 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, TN
Year
Total registered
2016
78,712
2018
80,082
2020
87,647
2022
89,839
2024
94,867
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+1,472 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +14,372 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Cleveland, TN in Cleveland, TN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+513
2012
+831
2013
+502
2014
+762
2015
+892
2016
+394
2017
+848
2018
+1,495
2019
+750
2021
+1,583
2022
+1,290
2023
+1,430
2024
+1,610
2025
+1,472
Cleveland anchors Bradley County in the southeastern corner of Tennessee, where a manufacturing base and proximity to Chattanooga have drawn younger working families into a historically heavily Republican voting landscape that has held consistent double-digit Republican margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.4 points in 1944 and a Republican high of 60.3 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 60.3 points.
A population of 128,963, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,993 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Sevierville, TN and Duncan, OK.
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In 2024, Cleveland, TN, Tennessee voted Republican by 60.3 points (R+60.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 57,973 votes cast, 11,208 went Democratic and 46,138 went Republican.
When did Cleveland, TN, Tennessee last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Cleveland, TN, Tennessee voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Cleveland, TN, Tennessee?
Cleveland, TN, Tennessee has a population of 128,963 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Cleveland, TN, Tennessee?
Median household income in Cleveland, TN, Tennessee is $65,993 — below the national median of $80,734. The Tennessee state median is $69,595.
What is the political history of Cleveland, TN, Tennessee?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Cleveland, TN, Tennessee from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 28 went Republican.
