Medford, OR · 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: Jackson County, Oregon. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Medford, OR, 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 · 2024R+4.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+6.4
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 2.4 points.
165,335 registered voters · 2024 · up from 160,299 in 2022
Domestic migration in Medford, OR in Medford, OR: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,072
2012
+1,166
2013
+1,425
2014
+1,985
2015
+2,232
2016
+2,854
2017
+2,468
2018
+2,863
2019
+1,652
2021
+1,368
2022
−1,545
2023
−219
2024
+434
2025
+1,137
Medford anchors Jackson County, which has trended more conservative than Oregon's urban centers despite steady in-migration from California. Its retiree-heavy demographic and timber-era roots keep it competitive in a reliably blue state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 25.5 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 52.4 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.4 points.
A population of 222,645, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,999 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Bend, OR and Truckee-Grass Valley, CA.
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In 2024, Medford, OR, Oregon voted Republican by 6.4 points (R+6.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 119,572 votes cast, 54,065 went Democratic and 61,743 went Republican.
When did Medford, OR, Oregon last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Medford, OR, Oregon voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in Medford, OR, Oregon?
Medford, OR, Oregon has a population of 222,645 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Medford, OR, Oregon?
Median household income in Medford, OR, Oregon is $73,999 — below the national median of $80,734. The Oregon state median is $83,011.
What is the political history of Medford, OR, Oregon?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Medford, OR, Oregon from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 7 went Democratic and 25 went Republican.
