Elkhart-Goshen, IN · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
51.7%
21,679 votes · D+4.3
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 50.3%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
74.8%
20,876 votes · R+50.1
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 72.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
31,398votes
43.9% of the vote · R+11.2
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 26,108 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
46,972votes
63.1% of the vote · R+28.0
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 45,652 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
+7.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+26.8 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +5.3 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
+38.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+40.7 · U.S. R+2.5
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · +37.9 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Elkhart-Goshen, IN · 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: Elkhart County, Indiana. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Elkhart-Goshen, IN, 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 Elkhart-Goshen, IN
Year
Total registered
2016
135,800
2018
121,175
2020
124,785
2022
126,855
2024
126,874
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−949 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −11,391 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Elkhart-Goshen, IN in Elkhart-Goshen, IN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−675
2012
−685
2013
−204
2014
−248
2015
+87
2016
−999
2017
−806
2018
−238
2019
−870
2021
−1,011
2022
−1,352
2023
−1,965
2024
−1,476
2025
−949
Elkhart County produces roughly 80% of North American recreational vehicles, making its manufacturing employment figures a closely watched leading indicator of consumer confidence and working-class voter sentiment across northern Indiana.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 26.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 50.1 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.4 points.
A population of 207,132, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,561 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Frankfort, IN and Crawfordsville, IN.
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The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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In 2024, Elkhart-Goshen, IN, Indiana voted Republican by 32.4 points (R+32.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 69,765 votes cast, 23,082 went Democratic and 45,652 went Republican.
When did Elkhart-Goshen, IN, Indiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Elkhart-Goshen, IN, Indiana voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Elkhart-Goshen, IN, Indiana?
Elkhart-Goshen, IN, Indiana has a population of 207,132 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Elkhart-Goshen, IN, Indiana?
Median household income in Elkhart-Goshen, IN, Indiana is $68,561 — below the national median of $80,734. The Indiana state median is $71,957.
What is the political history of Elkhart-Goshen, IN, Indiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Elkhart-Goshen, IN, Indiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 2 went Democratic and 31 went Republican.
