Fort Wayne, IN · 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 Fort Wayne, 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 Fort Wayne, IN
Year
Total registered
2016
319,319
2018
297,247
2020
307,001
2022
313,516
2024
329,264
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+890 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +3,176 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Fort Wayne, IN in Fort Wayne, IN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−260
2012
−1,324
2013
−448
2014
−734
2015
−225
2016
−773
2017
+289
2018
+947
2019
+1,409
2021
+1,279
2022
+825
2023
+528
2024
+773
2025
+890
Fort Wayne, IN sits in the Upper Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 35.9 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.1 points.
A population of 455,416, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,372 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN and Evansville, IN.
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In 2024, Fort Wayne, IN, Indiana voted Republican by 19.1 points (R+19.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 195,013 votes cast, 77,085 went Democratic and 114,411 went Republican.
When did Fort Wayne, IN, Indiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Fort Wayne, IN, Indiana voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Fort Wayne, IN, Indiana?
Fort Wayne, IN, Indiana has a population of 455,416 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Fort Wayne, IN, Indiana?
Median household income in Fort Wayne, IN, Indiana is $71,372 — below the national median of $80,734. The Indiana state median is $71,957.
What is the political history of Fort Wayne, IN, Indiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Fort Wayne, IN, Indiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 25 went Republican.
