Manchester-Nashua, NH · 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: Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Manchester-Nashua, NH, 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 · 2026R+4.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+2.9
Manchester-Nashua, NH registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 7.6-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
270,150 registered voters · 2026
Democratic27.3%Republican32.0%Unaffiliated40.7%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+786 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −5,602 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Manchester-Nashua, NH in Manchester-Nashua, NH: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,365
2012
−1,408
2013
−1,622
2014
−420
2015
−994
2016
−528
2017
−253
2018
−554
2019
+650
2021
+87
2022
+935
2023
−876
2024
−40
2025
+786
Manchester-Nashua anchors the state's densest Democratic-leaning urban corridor, yet sits within a state famous for fierce independent-voter swings that have flipped its Electoral College votes multiple times since 2000.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 42.1 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.9 points.
A population of 426,378, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,545 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY and Worcester, MA.
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How did Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire vote in 2024?
In 2024, Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire voted Democratic by 2.9 points (D+2.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 234,443 votes cast, 118,777 went Democratic and 112,059 went Republican.
When did Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire voted Republican was 2016.
How many people live in Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire?
Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire has a population of 426,378 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire?
Median household income in Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire is $103,545 — above the national median of $80,734. The New Hampshire state median is $99,031.
What is the political history of Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Manchester-Nashua, NH, New Hampshire from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
