Salinas, CA · 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: Monterey County, California. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Salinas, CA, 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+30.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+29.9
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 0.8 points.
213,603 registered voters · 2024 · up from 209,448 in 2022
Domestic migration in Salinas, CA in Salinas, CA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−509
2012
−360
2013
−2,605
2014
−2,924
2015
−2,843
2016
−1,264
2017
−3,179
2018
−3,544
2019
−2,850
2021
−3,830
2022
−7,768
2023
−6,334
2024
−5,891
2025
−2,697
Salinas anchors one of the nation's most productive agricultural valleys, where a majority-Latino workforce has steadily shifted the metro's electorate toward high Democratic margins while local ballot measures on water and housing remain competitive.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.3 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 49.7 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 11.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 29.9 points.
A population of 437,613, a 27% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $97,230 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA and El Paso, TX.
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In 2024, Salinas, CA, California voted Democratic by 29.9 points (D+29.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 146,718 votes cast, 93,060 went Democratic and 49,226 went Republican.
When did Salinas, CA, California last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Salinas, CA, California voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Salinas, CA, California?
Salinas, CA, California has a population of 437,613 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Salinas, CA, California?
Median household income in Salinas, CA, California is $97,230 — above the national median of $80,734. The California state median is $99,122.
What is the political history of Salinas, CA, California?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Salinas, CA, California from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
