Lansing-East Lansing, MI · 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 Lansing-East Lansing, MI, 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 Lansing-East Lansing, MI
Year
Total registered
2016
341,754
2018
341,614
2020
364,994
2022
369,089
2024
378,102
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+846 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −17,736 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Lansing-East Lansing, MI in Lansing-East Lansing, MI: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,838
2012
−3,081
2013
−2,329
2014
−1,815
2015
−2,113
2016
−438
2017
−216
2018
−2,200
2019
−883
2021
−12,359
2022
+10,504
2023
−443
2024
−1,371
2025
+846
Ingham County anchors a metro where state-government employment and a large student population at Michigan State University consistently push turnout patterns and partisan margins apart from surrounding rural counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 22.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 63.0 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.3 points.
A population of 472,669, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,596 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Kalamazoo-Portage, MI and Madison, WI.
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How did Lansing-East Lansing, MI, Michigan vote in 2024?
In 2024, Lansing-East Lansing, MI, Michigan voted Democratic by 14.3 points (D+14.3), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 263,295 votes cast, 148,048 went Democratic and 110,417 went Republican.
When did Lansing-East Lansing, MI, Michigan last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Lansing-East Lansing, MI, Michigan voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Lansing-East Lansing, MI, Michigan?
Lansing-East Lansing, MI, Michigan has a population of 472,669 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lansing-East Lansing, MI, Michigan?
Median household income in Lansing-East Lansing, MI, Michigan is $72,596 — below the national median of $80,734. The Michigan state median is $72,875.
What is the political history of Lansing-East Lansing, MI, Michigan?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Lansing-East Lansing, MI, Michigan from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 13 went Democratic and 20 went Republican.
