Mankato, MN · 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 Mankato, MN, 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 Mankato, MN
Year
Total registered
2016
61,407
2018
59,298
2020
63,759
2022
61,207
2024
66,215
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+139 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −903 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Mankato, MN in Mankato, MN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−125
2012
+99
2013
−790
2014
+265
2015
−98
2016
+217
2017
+332
2018
+176
2019
−125
2021
−317
2022
+444
2023
−782
2024
−338
2025
+139
Anchored by Minnesota State University, Mankato anchors a mid-size metro that has trended more competitive than its surrounding Greater Minnesota counties, with younger, education-driven in-migration reshaping its precinct-level margins over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 20.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 64.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.0 points.
A population of 104,282, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,219 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Eau Claire, WI and La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN.
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In 2024, Mankato, MN, Minnesota voted Republican by 1.0 points (R+1.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 55,859 votes cast, 26,999 went Democratic and 27,541 went Republican.
When did Mankato, MN, Minnesota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Mankato, MN, Minnesota voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in Mankato, MN, Minnesota?
Mankato, MN, Minnesota has a population of 104,282 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Mankato, MN, Minnesota?
Median household income in Mankato, MN, Minnesota is $76,219 — below the national median of $80,734. The Minnesota state median is $89,062.
What is the political history of Mankato, MN, Minnesota?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Mankato, MN, Minnesota from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 22 went Republican.
