Cortland, NY · 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: Cortland County, New York. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Cortland, NY, 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 · 2026R+7.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+6.4
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.1 points.
Domestic migration in Cortland, NY in Cortland, NY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+39
2012
−375
2013
−91
2014
−280
2015
−523
2016
−426
2017
−193
2018
−136
2019
−210
2021
−191
2022
−227
2023
−119
2024
+40
2025
−194
Cortland County's electorate reflects the pull of a mid-size state university campus alongside a declining manufacturing workforce, producing a competitive mix that has shifted measurably in presidential cycles over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 60.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.4 points.
A population of 46,246, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,418 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Oneonta, NY and Elmira, NY.
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In 2024, Cortland, NY, New York voted Republican by 6.4 points (R+6.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 22,063 votes cast, 10,290 went Democratic and 11,706 went Republican.
When did Cortland, NY, New York last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Cortland, NY, New York voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Cortland, NY, New York?
Cortland, NY, New York has a population of 46,246 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Cortland, NY, New York?
Median household income in Cortland, NY, New York is $70,418 — below the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.
What is the political history of Cortland, NY, New York?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Cortland, NY, New York from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 5 went Democratic and 29 went Republican.
