Spirit Lake, IA · 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: Dickinson County, Iowa. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Spirit Lake, IA, 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 · 2024R+32.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+39.9
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 7.9 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Spirit Lake, IA
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008
13,635
3,371
4,606
5,657
1
2010
13,573
3,139
4,964
5,467
3
2012
13,414
2,860
5,490
5,054
10
2014
12,717
2,537
5,340
4,815
25
2016
13,368
2,613
5,735
4,972
48
2018
13,704
2,609
6,115
4,899
81
2020
14,480
3,060
6,781
4,541
98
2022
14,654
2,841
7,077
4,616
120
2024
14,905
2,634
7,398
4,749
124
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+108 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +1,518 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Spirit Lake, IA in Spirit Lake, IA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+246
2012
+68
2013
+15
2014
+8
2015
+167
2016
+123
2017
+98
2018
+15
2019
+163
2021
+154
2022
+221
2023
+54
2024
+78
2025
+108
Spirit Lake, IA sits in the Corn Belt. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 18.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 61.9 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 6.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 39.9 points.
A population of 17,990, a 93% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $75,432 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Spencer, IA and Yankton, SD.
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In 2024, Spirit Lake, IA, Iowa voted Republican by 39.9 points (R+39.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 11,234 votes cast, 3,297 went Democratic and 7,775 went Republican.
When did Spirit Lake, IA, Iowa last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Spirit Lake, IA, Iowa voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Spirit Lake, IA, Iowa?
Spirit Lake, IA, Iowa has a population of 17,990 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Spirit Lake, IA, Iowa?
Median household income in Spirit Lake, IA, Iowa is $75,432 — below the national median of $80,734. The Iowa state median is $75,059.
What is the political history of Spirit Lake, IA, Iowa?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Spirit Lake, IA, Iowa from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 7 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
