Rock Springs, WY · 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: Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Rock Springs, WY, 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+61.2
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+52.8
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 8.4 points more Democratic than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Rock Springs, WY in Rock Springs, WY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+65
2012
+702
2013
−279
2014
−547
2015
−648
2016
−830
2017
−1,058
2018
−831
2019
−750
2021
−631
2022
−313
2023
−169
2024
−124
2025
−167
Sweetwater County anchors Wyoming's trona and natural gas economy, and its working-class extraction workforce has driven double-digit Republican margins in recent cycles while keeping union-adjacent labor issues on the local agenda.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 54.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 52.8 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 52.8 points.
A population of 41,542, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $75,034 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Winnemucca, NV and Fallon, NV.
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In 2024, Rock Springs, WY, Wyoming voted Republican by 52.8 points (R+52.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 16,698 votes cast, 3,731 went Democratic and 12,541 went Republican.
When did Rock Springs, WY, Wyoming last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Rock Springs, WY, Wyoming voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Rock Springs, WY, Wyoming?
Rock Springs, WY, Wyoming has a population of 41,542 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Rock Springs, WY, Wyoming?
Median household income in Rock Springs, WY, Wyoming is $75,034 — below the national median of $80,734. The Wyoming state median is $76,176.
What is the political history of Rock Springs, WY, Wyoming?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Rock Springs, WY, Wyoming from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
