Elizabeth City, NC · 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: Pasquotank County, North Carolina. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Elizabeth City, NC, 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 · 2024D+8.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+4.9
Elizabeth City, NC registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 13-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Elizabeth City, NC
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008
26,675
14,687
5,672
6,296
20
2012
29,446
15,385
5,856
8,117
88
2016
28,677
13,602
6,004
8,924
147
2020
28,763
11,698
6,973
9,869
223
2022
29,225
11,196
7,329
10,492
208
2024
32,029
10,937
8,226
12,518
348
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+614 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −373 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Elizabeth City, NC in Elizabeth City, NC: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−480
2012
−61
2013
−984
2014
−332
2015
−243
2016
−112
2017
−113
2018
+94
2019
+112
2021
+229
2022
+360
2023
+323
2024
+220
2025
+614
Elizabeth City anchors a rural northeastern North Carolina metro with one of the state's higher shares of Black residents, a demographic mix that has kept presidential margins tighter here than in surrounding counties despite a recent Republican lean of roughly 9 points.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 81.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 28.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 5.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.9 points.
A population of 40,834, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,589 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Henderson, NC and Cleveland, MS.
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How did Elizabeth City, NC, North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Elizabeth City, NC, North Carolina voted Republican by 4.9 points (R+4.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 20,343 votes cast, 9,549 went Democratic and 10,537 went Republican.
When did Elizabeth City, NC, North Carolina last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Elizabeth City, NC, North Carolina voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in Elizabeth City, NC, North Carolina?
Elizabeth City, NC, North Carolina has a population of 40,834 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Elizabeth City, NC, North Carolina?
Median household income in Elizabeth City, NC, North Carolina is $66,589 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Elizabeth City, NC, North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Elizabeth City, NC, North Carolina from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 26 went Democratic and 7 went Republican.
