Flagstaff, AZ · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1912–2024 · 29 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
69.8%
2,689 votes · D+41.0
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 67.3%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
63.5%
4,044 votes · R+27.2
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 63.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
44,698votes
60.7% of the vote · D+24.0
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 41,504 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
27,576votes
39.4% of the vote · D+19.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 27,052 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
+23.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+41.0 · U.S. D+17.8
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +21.4 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1968
+27.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+28.6 · U.S. R+0.7
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · +27.0 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Flagstaff, AZ · 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: Coconino County, Arizona. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Flagstaff, AZ, 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 · 2026D+11.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+19.9
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 8.1 points more Democratic than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Flagstaff, AZ in Flagstaff, AZ: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,559
2012
+672
2013
−629
2014
−364
2015
+370
2016
+501
2017
−162
2018
+890
2019
+313
2021
−2,460
2022
+771
2023
−143
2024
−725
2025
−879
Home to Northern Arizona University and a large Native American population from surrounding tribal lands, Flagstaff's Coconino County posts Democratic margins uncommon in rural Arizona, driven by student voters and reservation turnout patterns.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 41.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 28.6 points in 1968. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.9 points.
A population of 144,508, a 52% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,966 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Lawrence, KS and Corvallis, OR.
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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, Flagstaff, AZ, Arizona voted Democratic by 19.9 points (D+19.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 70,067 votes cast, 41,504 went Democratic and 27,576 went Republican.
When did Flagstaff, AZ, Arizona last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Flagstaff, AZ, Arizona voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Flagstaff, AZ, Arizona?
Flagstaff, AZ, Arizona has a population of 144,508 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Flagstaff, AZ, Arizona?
Median household income in Flagstaff, AZ, Arizona is $72,966 — below the national median of $80,734. The Arizona state median is $79,964.
What is the political history of Flagstaff, AZ, Arizona?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Flagstaff, AZ, Arizona from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.
