Ellensburg, WA · 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: Kittitas County, Washington. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Ellensburg, WA, 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 Ellensburg, WA
Year
Total registered
2016
27,280
2018
28,669
2020
32,673
2022
33,478
2024
34,929
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+637 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +6,838 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Ellensburg, WA in Ellensburg, WA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+347
2012
−127
2013
+17
2014
+582
2015
+289
2016
+1,630
2017
+1,044
2018
+998
2019
+376
2021
−1,072
2022
+1,518
2023
+375
2024
+224
2025
+637
Central Washington University's enrollment shapes Ellensburg's demographics and turns out younger voters in a county that otherwise trends conservative, producing split-ticket patterns uncommon in surrounding rural precincts.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 43.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 45.9 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.5 points.
A population of 47,172, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,804 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Moscow, ID and Laramie, WY.
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In 2024, Ellensburg, WA, Washington voted Republican by 14.5 points (R+14.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 26,499 votes cast, 10,810 went Democratic and 14,645 went Republican.
When did Ellensburg, WA, Washington last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Ellensburg, WA, Washington voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Ellensburg, WA, Washington?
Ellensburg, WA, Washington has a population of 47,172 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Ellensburg, WA, Washington?
Median household income in Ellensburg, WA, Washington is $73,804 — below the national median of $80,734. The Washington state median is $98,141.
What is the political history of Ellensburg, WA, Washington?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Ellensburg, WA, Washington from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
