Newport, 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: Lincoln 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 Newport, 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 · 2024D+11.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+18.3
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 6.7 points more Democratic than the rolls.
41,263 registered voters · 2024 · up from 39,619 in 2022
Domestic migration in Newport, OR in Newport, OR: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−11
2012
+419
2013
+255
2014
+101
2015
+757
2016
+938
2017
+1,122
2018
+714
2019
+959
2021
+863
2022
+118
2023
+368
2024
+261
2025
+261
Lincoln County anchors Newport's metro and has backed Democratic presidential candidates by double-digit margins in recent cycles, driven partly by a college-educated coastal population and the economic footprint of Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 44.9 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.3 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.3 points.
A population of 50,964, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,165 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Astoria, OR and Port Townsend, WA.
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In 2024, Newport, OR, Oregon voted Democratic by 18.3 points (D+18.3), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 29,804 votes cast, 17,112 went Democratic and 11,645 went Republican.
When did Newport, OR, Oregon last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Newport, OR, Oregon voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in Newport, OR, Oregon?
Newport, OR, Oregon has a population of 50,964 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Newport, OR, Oregon?
Median household income in Newport, OR, Oregon is $63,165 — below the national median of $80,734. The Oregon state median is $83,011.
What is the political history of Newport, OR, Oregon?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Newport, OR, Oregon from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 14 went Republican.
