Lawton, OK · 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 Lawton, OK, 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.
Where a cell reads All others, no named candidate led — the source’s residual bucket did. That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes. It is a total, not a person, so it carries no candidate colour.
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+17.2
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+26.3
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 9.1 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Lawton, OK in Lawton, OK: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−895
2012
−1,434
2013
−3,081
2014
−1,337
2015
−2,255
2016
−3,233
2017
−731
2018
−1,893
2019
−510
2021
+864
2022
−251
2023
−1,100
2024
−974
2025
−177
Lawton's economy and culture revolve around Fort Sill, one of the Army's primary artillery and air defense training centers, giving the metro an unusually large active-duty and veteran population that shapes both its demographics and its consistent Republican margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 62.1 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 59.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.3 points.
A population of 127,310, a 55% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,660 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Clarksville, TN-KY and Anniston-Oxford, AL.
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In 2024, Lawton, OK, Oklahoma voted Republican by 26.3 points (R+26.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 36,790 votes cast, 13,215 went Democratic and 22,890 went Republican.
When did Lawton, OK, Oklahoma last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Lawton, OK, Oklahoma voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Lawton, OK, Oklahoma?
Lawton, OK, Oklahoma has a population of 127,310 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lawton, OK, Oklahoma?
Median household income in Lawton, OK, Oklahoma is $60,660 — below the national median of $80,734. The Oklahoma state median is $65,039.
What is the political history of Lawton, OK, Oklahoma?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Lawton, OK, Oklahoma from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
