Gillette, WY · 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: Campbell County, Wyoming. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Gillette, WY, 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 · 2026R+85.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+76.3
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 8.8 points more Democratic than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Gillette, WY in Gillette, WY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−146
2012
+759
2013
−305
2014
−363
2015
+601
2016
−1,097
2017
−2,905
2018
−497
2019
−268
2021
−831
2022
+312
2023
+226
2024
+171
2025
−223
Gillette anchors Campbell County, Wyoming's top coal-producing county, where energy industry cycles translate directly into voter sentiment and turnout patterns that analysts use as a bellwether for resource-extraction communities nationwide.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.6 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 79.4 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 0.5 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 76.3 points.
A population of 47,240, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $89,869 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Vernal, UT and Stephenville, TX.
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In 2024, Gillette, WY, Wyoming voted Republican by 76.3 points (R+76.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 18,342 votes cast, 2,004 went Democratic and 16,006 went Republican.
When did Gillette, WY, Wyoming last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Gillette, WY, Wyoming voted Democratic was 1936.
How many people live in Gillette, WY, Wyoming?
Gillette, WY, Wyoming has a population of 47,240 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Gillette, WY, Wyoming?
Median household income in Gillette, WY, Wyoming is $89,869 — above the national median of $80,734. The Wyoming state median is $76,176.
What is the political history of Gillette, WY, Wyoming?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Gillette, WY, Wyoming from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 4 went Democratic and 25 went Republican.
