Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles · 31 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Woodrow Wilson1912
75.7%
12,629 votes · D+52.5
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 60.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
70.0%
38,202 votes · R+41.3
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 69.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
46,707votes
33.7% of the vote · R+30.3
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 45,228 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
88,643votes
64.0% of the vote · R+30.3
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 80,040 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+95.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+76.3 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +59.2 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+36.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.4 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +31.6 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.
Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV · 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 Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, by party and cycle.
Sanders2Clinton121,960 votes · 3 of 3 countiesprimary
Biden322,491 votes · 3 of 3 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
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○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+18.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+30.3
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 12 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,110
2012
+562
2013
+622
2014
+954
2015
+777
2016
+1,803
2017
+1,790
2018
+2,373
2019
+2,094
2021
+3,793
2022
+3,636
2023
+3,856
2024
+4,253
2025
+4,089
Straddling the Potomac, this two-state metro has shifted sharply toward Republican margins over the past decade, driven by working-class suburban growth in Berkeley County, WV, and slower population gains on the Maryland side.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 76.3 points in 1904 and a Republican high of 41.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.3 points.
A population of 302,649, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,739 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Winchester, VA-WV and York-Hanover, PA.
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How did Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, West Virginia vote in 2024?
In 2024, Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, West Virginia voted Republican by 30.3 points (R+30.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 138,531 votes cast, 46,707 went Democratic and 88,643 went Republican.
When did Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, West Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, West Virginia voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, West Virginia?
Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, West Virginia has a population of 302,649 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, West Virginia?
Median household income in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, West Virginia is $78,739 — below the national median of $80,734. The West Virginia state median is $103,678.
What is the political history of Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, West Virginia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, West Virginia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
