Midland, TX · 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 Midland, TX, 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 Midland, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
83,457
2018
87,841
2020
93,859
2022
99,862
2024
102,501
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+990 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +24,365 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Midland, TX in Midland, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,964
2012
+5,307
2013
+3,281
2014
+2,200
2015
+3,271
2016
−970
2017
−902
2018
+5,133
2019
+2,181
2021
−3,637
2022
+1,475
2023
+2,429
2024
+1,643
2025
+990
Midland anchors one of the nation's most petroleum-dependent metros, and its electorate has backed Republican presidential candidates by some of the widest margins in Texas for decades, reflecting a workforce and culture tightly bound to extraction industries.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 85.3 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 63.9 points in 2004. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 61.0 points.
A population of 180,019, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,899 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of San Angelo, TX and Amarillo, TX.
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In 2024, Midland, TX, Texas voted Republican by 61.0 points (R+61.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 60,891 votes cast, 11,598 went Democratic and 48,769 went Republican.
When did Midland, TX, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Midland, TX, Texas voted Democratic was 1948.
How many people live in Midland, TX, Texas?
Midland, TX, Texas has a population of 180,019 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Midland, TX, Texas?
Median household income in Midland, TX, Texas is $92,899 — above the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Midland, TX, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Midland, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 20 went Republican.
