Salisbury, MD · 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 Salisbury, MD, by party and cycle.
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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.
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voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+0.2
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+7.5
Salisbury, MD registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 7.7-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
Domestic migration in Salisbury, MD in Salisbury, MD: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+81
2012
−545
2013
−478
2014
−507
2015
−102
2016
−76
2017
−273
2018
+112
2019
+239
2021
−62
2022
+147
2023
+261
2024
−48
2025
+95
Salisbury anchors the Delmarva Peninsula's commercial and healthcare hub, drawing retirees from the Mid-Atlantic corridor while its poultry-processing workforce adds a growing Latino demographic that has gradually shifted the area's electoral composition.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 43.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 39.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.5 points.
A population of 129,736, a 57% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,054 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Savannah, GA and Greenville, NC.
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In 2024, Salisbury, MD, Maryland voted Republican by 7.5 points (R+7.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 57,049 votes cast, 25,567 went Democratic and 29,870 went Republican.
When did Salisbury, MD, Maryland last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Salisbury, MD, Maryland voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Salisbury, MD, Maryland?
Salisbury, MD, Maryland has a population of 129,736 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Salisbury, MD, Maryland?
Median household income in Salisbury, MD, Maryland is $74,054 — below the national median of $80,734. The Maryland state median is $103,678.
What is the political history of Salisbury, MD, Maryland?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Salisbury, MD, Maryland from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
