Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI · 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 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, 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.
Where a cell reads All others, no named candidate led — the source’s residual bucket did. That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes. It is a total, not a person, so it carries no candidate colour.
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 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
Year
Total registered
2016
3,264,665
2018
3,219,615
2020
3,503,779
2022
3,547,866
2024
3,634,050
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−5,850 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −249,395 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−22,644
2012
−14,853
2013
−18,143
2014
−18,414
2015
−22,420
2016
−18,923
2017
−14,918
2018
−14,470
2019
−16,655
2021
−18,924
2022
−28,418
2023
−22,883
2024
−11,880
2025
−5,850
The Detroit metro delivers lopsided Democratic margins in Wayne County while Macomb County swings between parties, making the combined suburban-urban balance a reliable bellwether for statewide outcomes.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 45.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 70.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 6.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.1 points.
A population of 4,376,828, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,535 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN and St. Louis, MO-IL.
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How did Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, Michigan vote in 2024?
In 2024, Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, Michigan voted Democratic by 7.1 points (D+7.1), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 2,422,398 votes cast, 1,268,213 went Democratic and 1,095,203 went Republican.
When did Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, Michigan last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, Michigan voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, Michigan?
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, Michigan has a population of 4,376,828 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, Michigan?
Median household income in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, Michigan is $77,535 — below the national median of $80,734. The Michigan state median is $72,875.
What is the political history of Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, Michigan?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, Michigan from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 11 went Republican.
