Fargo, ND-MN · 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
59.7%
18,682 votes · D+26.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 58.4%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
79.6%
5,973 votes · R+66.3
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 75.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
56,668votes
47.9% of the vote · R+0.8
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 56,425 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
63,838votes
51.6% of the vote · R+6.0
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 57,662 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
George McGovern1972
+6.0pts D vs U.S.
Place R+17.1 · U.S. R+23.2
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +2.4 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+46.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+66.3 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1892 · +40.6 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Fargo, ND-MN · 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 Fargo, ND-MN, by party and cycle.
Biden1Sanders19,931 votes · 2 of 2 countiescaucus + primary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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.
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+502 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +20,733 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Fargo, ND-MN in Fargo, ND-MN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,392
2012
+1,928
2013
+3,273
2014
+2,004
2015
+2,171
2016
+1,616
2017
+1,045
2018
+564
2019
−468
2021
+3,173
2022
+1,786
2023
+1,685
2024
+62
2025
+502
Fargo anchors the Red River Valley with a population split between North Dakota and a sliver of Minnesota, and despite North Dakota State University's student presence, the metro delivered one of the widest presidential margins of any mid-sized city in 2024.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 26.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 66.3 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 5.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.0 points.
A population of 259,459, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,985 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Grand Forks, ND-MN and Sioux Falls, SD-MN.
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In 2024, Fargo, ND-MN, Minnesota voted Republican by 6.0 points (R+6.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 123,725 votes cast, 56,425 went Democratic and 63,838 went Republican.
When did Fargo, ND-MN, Minnesota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Fargo, ND-MN, Minnesota voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Fargo, ND-MN, Minnesota?
Fargo, ND-MN, Minnesota has a population of 259,459 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Fargo, ND-MN, Minnesota?
Median household income in Fargo, ND-MN, Minnesota is $76,985 — below the national median of $80,734. The Minnesota state median is $89,062.
What is the political history of Fargo, ND-MN, Minnesota?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Fargo, ND-MN, Minnesota from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 24 went Republican.
