Columbus, IN · 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: Bartholomew County, Indiana. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Columbus, IN, 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 Columbus, IN
Year
Total registered
2016
55,689
2018
50,325
2020
52,748
2022
53,497
2024
54,086
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−19 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −499 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Columbus, IN in Columbus, IN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+275
2012
+681
2013
−2
2014
+123
2015
+212
2016
−161
2017
−637
2018
−440
2019
+151
2021
+1
2022
−12
2023
−286
2024
−385
2025
−19
Anchored by Cummins Inc.'s global headquarters, Columbus punches above its weight economically for a city of roughly 50,000, yet its Bartholomew County core has delivered Republican presidential margins above 25 points in each of the last three cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 42.4 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.3 points.
A population of 83,536, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,901 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Fort Wayne, IN and Elkhart-Goshen, IN.
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In 2024, Columbus, IN, Indiana voted Republican by 27.3 points (R+27.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 35,488 votes cast, 12,525 went Democratic and 22,220 went Republican.
When did Columbus, IN, Indiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Columbus, IN, Indiana voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Columbus, IN, Indiana?
Columbus, IN, Indiana has a population of 83,536 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Columbus, IN, Indiana?
Median household income in Columbus, IN, Indiana is $79,901 — below the national median of $80,734. The Indiana state median is $71,957.
What is the political history of Columbus, IN, Indiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Columbus, IN, Indiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 24 went Republican.
