Johnson City, TN · 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 Johnson City, TN, 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
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Johnson City, TN
Year
Total registered
2016
123,848
2018
122,564
2020
133,055
2022
134,718
2024
141,316
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+2,315 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +19,790 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Johnson City, TN in Johnson City, TN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+532
2012
+988
2013
+220
2014
−281
2015
+546
2016
+1,384
2017
+907
2018
+1,379
2019
+1,091
2021
+974
2022
+4,108
2023
+3,688
2024
+1,939
2025
+2,315
Johnson City's Ballad Health campus and East Tennessee State University give the metro an unusually large healthcare and higher-education workforce, moderating the heavily Republican baseline typical of surrounding Sullivan and Washington counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 65.9 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 47.7 points.
A population of 210,729, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,506 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA and Cullman, AL.
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In 2024, Johnson City, TN, Tennessee voted Republican by 47.7 points (R+47.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 94,627 votes cast, 24,163 went Democratic and 69,342 went Republican.
How many people live in Johnson City, TN, Tennessee?
Johnson City, TN, Tennessee has a population of 210,729 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Johnson City, TN, Tennessee?
Median household income in Johnson City, TN, Tennessee is $58,506 — below the national median of $80,734. The Tennessee state median is $69,595.
What is the political history of Johnson City, TN, Tennessee?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Johnson City, TN, Tennessee from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 0 went Democratic and 33 went Republican.
