Clewiston, FL · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1924–2024 · 26 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
79.6%
1,211 votes · D+59.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 75.2%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
78.8%
3,782 votes · R+58.2
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 70.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
6,379votes
44.8% of the vote · R+9.4
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 6,354 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
13,287votes
70.9% of the vote · R+42.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 11,688 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
John W. Davis1924
+71.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+46.2 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +41.3 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
+41.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+42.5 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +35.0 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Clewiston, FL · 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 Clewiston, FL, 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 · 2024R+23.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+42.5
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 19 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Clewiston, FL
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2017
24,001
10,855
8,650
4,418
78
2018
24,745
10,573
9,407
4,618
147
2019
24,257
9,882
9,526
4,636
213
2020
26,582
10,071
11,232
4,928
351
2021
25,497
9,306
10,975
4,848
368
2023
24,285
7,394
11,827
4,605
459
2024
25,297
6,963
12,981
4,714
639
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+991 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +3,919 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Clewiston, FL in Clewiston, FL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−669
2012
−1,826
2013
−561
2014
+511
2015
+250
2016
+237
2017
+422
2018
−211
2019
+299
2021
+587
2022
+1,002
2023
+1,726
2024
+1,161
2025
+991
Clewiston, FL sits in the Gulf South and peninsula. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 59.1 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 58.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 12.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 42.5 points.
A population of 54,945, a 34% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,987 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Beeville, TX and Town of Pecos, TX.
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In 2024, Clewiston, FL, Florida voted Republican by 42.5 points (R+42.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 18,739 votes cast, 5,318 went Democratic and 13,287 went Republican.
When did Clewiston, FL, Florida last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Clewiston, FL, Florida voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Clewiston, FL, Florida?
Clewiston, FL, Florida has a population of 54,945 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Clewiston, FL, Florida?
Median household income in Clewiston, FL, Florida is $53,987 — below the national median of $80,734. The Florida state median is $74,568.
What is the political history of Clewiston, FL, Florida?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Clewiston, FL, Florida from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
