Lumberton, NC · which candidate this place backed 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 this place is a single county: Robeson County, North Carolina. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Lumberton, NC, 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
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024D+22.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+27.6
Lumberton, NC registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 50-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Lumberton, NC
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008
67,876
51,698
7,470
8,689
19
2012
75,393
54,250
8,599
12,433
111
2016
76,044
50,808
9,596
15,462
178
2020
76,831
42,706
11,997
21,816
312
2022
71,851
36,366
12,908
22,359
218
2024
79,176
33,538
15,691
29,324
623
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−171 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −7,978 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Lumberton, NC in Lumberton, NC: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−113
2012
−329
2013
−1,058
2014
−870
2015
−976
2016
−1,529
2017
−1,197
2018
−1,101
2019
−1,636
2021
−149
2022
+225
2023
+751
2024
+175
2025
−171
Lumberton anchors one of the most demographically distinctive metros in the South, where the Lumbee Tribe constitutes a substantial share of the electorate and no single racial group commands a majority.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 86.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 27.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 9.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.6 points.
A population of 116,902, a 23% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $41,978 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Laurinburg, NC and Rockingham, NC.
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The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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How did Lumberton, NC, North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Lumberton, NC, North Carolina voted Republican by 27.6 points (R+27.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 46,770 votes cast, 16,728 went Democratic and 29,647 went Republican.
When did Lumberton, NC, North Carolina last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Lumberton, NC, North Carolina voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Lumberton, NC, North Carolina?
Lumberton, NC, North Carolina has a population of 116,902 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lumberton, NC, North Carolina?
Median household income in Lumberton, NC, North Carolina is $41,978 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Lumberton, NC, North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Lumberton, NC, North Carolina from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 30 went Democratic and 4 went Republican.
