Cumberland, MD-WV · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles · 30 with a vote-share denominator · 33 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
62.3%
26,769 votes · D+24.6
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 61.0%
Republican
Donald Trump2016
72.2%
30,340 votes · R+48.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 71.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
26,769votes
62.3% of the vote · D+24.6
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 25,054 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
32,388votes
71.9% of the vote · R+45.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 30,926 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
William J. Bryan1908
+105.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+95.6 · U.S. R+9.6
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +63.6 pts
Republican
William McKinley1900
+52.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+59.8 · U.S. R+7.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +50.7 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Cumberland, MD-WV · 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 Cumberland, MD-WV, 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+31.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+45.9
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 14 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Cumberland, MD-WV in Cumberland, MD-WV: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−339
2012
−615
2013
−378
2014
−571
2015
−426
2016
−189
2017
−548
2018
−401
2019
−317
2021
+228
2022
+118
2023
+490
2024
+295
2025
+361
Centered on Allegany County, Maryland, this two-state metro along the Potomac shifted decisively rightward as its coal and manufacturing economy contracted over decades, now recording some of the widest Republican margins of any mid-Atlantic metro area.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.6 points in 1908 and a Republican high of 59.8 points in 1900. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.9 points.
A population of 94,306, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,386 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Huntingdon, PA and North Platte, NE.
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In 2024, Cumberland, MD-WV, Maryland voted Republican by 45.9 points (R+45.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 45,041 votes cast, 11,714 went Democratic and 32,388 went Republican.
When did Cumberland, MD-WV, Maryland last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Cumberland, MD-WV, Maryland voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Cumberland, MD-WV, Maryland?
Cumberland, MD-WV, Maryland has a population of 94,306 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Cumberland, MD-WV, Maryland?
Median household income in Cumberland, MD-WV, Maryland is $62,386 — below the national median of $80,734. The Maryland state median is $103,678.
What is the political history of Cumberland, MD-WV, Maryland?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Cumberland, MD-WV, Maryland from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 7 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
