Gainesville, FL · 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 Gainesville, FL, 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 · 2024D+5.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+5.3
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 0.4 points.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Gainesville, FL
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2017
210,705
94,737
67,575
46,763
1,630
2018
223,202
100,209
70,444
50,258
2,291
2019
221,731
98,993
69,986
50,155
2,597
2020
236,268
106,625
75,355
50,664
3,624
2021
234,932
104,465
74,423
52,028
4,016
2023
194,196
81,285
68,055
40,554
4,302
2024
217,910
87,669
76,858
46,974
6,409
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+185 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +15,498 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Gainesville, FL in Gainesville, FL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−537
2012
−897
2013
−1,286
2014
+818
2015
+2,099
2016
+3,064
2017
+968
2018
+1,742
2019
−139
2021
+3,289
2022
+3,137
2023
+2,432
2024
+623
2025
+185
Home to the University of Florida's 50,000-plus students, the Gainesville metro tilts Democratic in city precincts while surrounding Alachua County's rural edges pull the margin back toward statewide competitiveness.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 84.3 points in 1892 and a Republican high of 19.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 7.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.3 points.
A population of 349,923, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,360 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Durham-Chapel Hill, NC and Tallahassee, FL.
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In 2024, Gainesville, FL, Florida voted Democratic by 5.3 points (D+5.3), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 171,612 votes cast, 89,234 went Democratic and 80,115 went Republican.
When did Gainesville, FL, Florida last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Gainesville, FL, Florida voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Gainesville, FL, Florida?
Gainesville, FL, Florida has a population of 349,923 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Gainesville, FL, Florida?
Median household income in Gainesville, FL, Florida is $61,360 — below the national median of $80,734. The Florida state median is $74,568.
What is the political history of Gainesville, FL, Florida?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Gainesville, FL, Florida from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 28 went Democratic and 4 went Republican.
