El Dorado, AR · 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: Union County, Arkansas. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in El Dorado, AR, 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 El Dorado, AR
Year
Total registered
2018
27,756
2020
27,974
2022
26,531
2024
27,463
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−167 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −4,405 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in El Dorado, AR in El Dorado, AR: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−122
2012
−593
2013
−217
2014
−410
2015
−72
2016
−252
2017
−444
2018
−226
2019
−386
2021
−434
2022
−428
2023
−354
2024
−300
2025
−167
El Dorado anchors a corner of south Arkansas where petroleum refining and chemical manufacturing built the regional economy, producing an electorate that has trended heavily toward Republican candidates in federal races even as local contests remain more competitive.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 90.3 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 54.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 33.5 points.
A population of 37,900, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $55,259 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Magnolia, AR and Camden, AR.
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In 2024, El Dorado, AR, Arkansas voted Republican by 33.5 points (R+33.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 15,448 votes cast, 5,019 went Democratic and 10,196 went Republican.
When did El Dorado, AR, Arkansas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which El Dorado, AR, Arkansas voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in El Dorado, AR, Arkansas?
El Dorado, AR, Arkansas has a population of 37,900 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in El Dorado, AR, Arkansas?
Median household income in El Dorado, AR, Arkansas is $55,259 — below the national median of $80,734. The Arkansas state median is $60,773.
What is the political history of El Dorado, AR, Arkansas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in El Dorado, AR, Arkansas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
