Forrest City, AR · 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: St. Francis County, Arkansas. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Forrest City, AR, 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 Forrest City, AR
Year
Total registered
2018
12,415
2020
11,609
2022
9,872
2024
10,437
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−195 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −5,212 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Forrest City, AR in Forrest City, AR: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−289
2012
−146
2013
−539
2014
−519
2015
−547
2016
−406
2017
−432
2018
−511
2019
−508
2021
−316
2022
−304
2023
−288
2024
−212
2025
−195
Forrest City, AR sits in the Mid-South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 88.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 35.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.7 points.
A population of 22,400, a 39% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $42,574 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Pine Bluff, AR and Natchez, MS-LA.
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In 2024, Forrest City, AR, Arkansas voted Democratic by 0.7 points (D+0.7), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 5,979 votes cast, 2,953 went Democratic and 2,909 went Republican.
When did Forrest City, AR, Arkansas last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Forrest City, AR, Arkansas voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in Forrest City, AR, Arkansas?
Forrest City, AR, Arkansas has a population of 22,400 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Forrest City, AR, Arkansas?
Median household income in Forrest City, AR, Arkansas is $42,574 — below the national median of $80,734. The Arkansas state median is $60,773.
What is the political history of Forrest City, AR, Arkansas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Forrest City, AR, Arkansas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 28 went Democratic and 5 went Republican.
