Grand Forks, ND-MN · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
68.6%
20,559 votes · D+41.7
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 63.6%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
72.3%
6,356 votes · R+55.0
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 71.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
23,954votes
51.5% of the vote · D+4.9
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 21,792 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
28,285votes
60.4% of the vote · R+23.2
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 26,852 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
William J. Bryan1896
+19.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+13.4 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +17.4 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+35.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+55.0 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · +24.4 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Grand Forks, ND-MN · 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 Grand Forks, ND-MN, by party and cycle.
Biden1Sanders13,927 votes · 2 of 2 countiescaucus + primary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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.
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−87 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −7,635 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Grand Forks, ND-MN in Grand Forks, ND-MN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,166
2012
+92
2013
+916
2014
−270
2015
−394
2016
−538
2017
−973
2018
−978
2019
−1,577
2021
−1,334
2022
−1,021
2023
−38
2024
−267
2025
−87
Home to the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks trends more competitive than its surrounding region, with the student and faculty population tempering the broader rural Republican lean that dominates both the North Dakota and Minnesota sides of the metro.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 41.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 55.0 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.2 points.
A population of 103,628, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,566 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Fargo, ND-MN and Brookings, SD.
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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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How did Grand Forks, ND-MN, Minnesota vote in 2024?
In 2024, Grand Forks, ND-MN, Minnesota voted Republican by 23.2 points (R+23.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 46,830 votes cast, 17,436 went Democratic and 28,285 went Republican.
When did Grand Forks, ND-MN, Minnesota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Grand Forks, ND-MN, Minnesota voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in Grand Forks, ND-MN, Minnesota?
Grand Forks, ND-MN, Minnesota has a population of 103,628 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Grand Forks, ND-MN, Minnesota?
Median household income in Grand Forks, ND-MN, Minnesota is $69,566 — below the national median of $80,734. The Minnesota state median is $89,062.
What is the political history of Grand Forks, ND-MN, Minnesota?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Grand Forks, ND-MN, Minnesota from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 20 went Republican.
