Iron Mountain, MI-WI · 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
69.3%
8,950 votes · D+38.6
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 60.5%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
87.4%
3,546 votes · R+78.4
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · 83.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
8,989votes
60.5% of the vote · D+24.4
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 8,950 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
12,680votes
68.7% of the vote · R+38.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 11,750 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
George McGovern1972
+16.8pts D vs U.S.
Place R+6.4 · U.S. R+23.2
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · +16.0 pts
Republican
William McKinley1900
+62.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+69.8 · U.S. R+7.5
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +58.8 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.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Iron Mountain, MI-WI · 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 Iron Mountain, MI-WI, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton1Obama11,982 votes · 2 of 2 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Sanders22,561 votes · 2 of 2 countiesprimary
Biden23,159 votes · 2 of 2 countiesprimary
○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
+158 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +677 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Iron Mountain, MI-WI in Iron Mountain, MI-WI: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+46
2012
+143
2013
−48
2014
−113
2015
−102
2016
−99
2017
+8
2018
−23
2019
−40
2021
+121
2022
+392
2023
+176
2024
+58
2025
+158
Straddling the Michigan-Wisconsin border in the Menominee iron range, this thinly populated metro has shifted steadily toward Republican presidential candidates over two decades, posting a 21-point margin in 2024.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 38.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 78.4 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 38.6 points.
A population of 30,600, a 93% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,538 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of St. Marys, PA and Marinette, WI-MI.
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Political twins — metros
The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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How did Iron Mountain, MI-WI, Michigan vote in 2024?
In 2024, Iron Mountain, MI-WI, Michigan voted Republican by 38.6 points (R+38.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 18,470 votes cast, 5,546 went Democratic and 12,680 went Republican.
When did Iron Mountain, MI-WI, Michigan last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Iron Mountain, MI-WI, Michigan voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Iron Mountain, MI-WI, Michigan?
Iron Mountain, MI-WI, Michigan has a population of 30,600 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Iron Mountain, MI-WI, Michigan?
Median household income in Iron Mountain, MI-WI, Michigan is $64,538 — below the national median of $80,734. The Michigan state median is $72,875.
What is the political history of Iron Mountain, MI-WI, Michigan?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Iron Mountain, MI-WI, Michigan from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 22 went Republican.
