Salem, OH · 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: Columbiana County, Ohio. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Salem, OH, 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 Salem, OH
Year
Total registered
2016
65,637
2018
66,688
2020
66,293
2022
65,493
2024
65,979
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+206 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −4,108 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Salem, OH in Salem, OH: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−402
2012
−765
2013
−518
2014
−207
2015
−642
2016
−740
2017
−533
2018
−332
2019
−382
2021
+96
2022
−82
2023
+107
2024
+86
2025
+206
Salem anchors a compact industrial corridor in Columbiana County, a consistently Republican-leaning corner of eastern Ohio where deindustrialization and blue-collar identity have driven some of the state's sharpest partisan swings over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 55.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 49.0 points.
A population of 100,704, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,180 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Cambridge, OH and Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH.
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In 2024, Salem, OH, Ohio voted Republican by 49.0 points (R+49.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 48,053 votes cast, 12,064 went Democratic and 35,607 went Republican.
When did Salem, OH, Ohio last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Salem, OH, Ohio voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Salem, OH, Ohio?
Salem, OH, Ohio has a population of 100,704 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Salem, OH, Ohio?
Median household income in Salem, OH, Ohio is $58,180 — below the national median of $80,734. The Ohio state median is $71,389.
What is the political history of Salem, OH, Ohio?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Salem, OH, Ohio from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 7 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
