Stillwater, OK · 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: Payne County, Oklahoma. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Stillwater, OK, 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+29.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+25.3
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 4.1 points more Democratic than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Stillwater, OK in Stillwater, OK: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−143
2012
−166
2013
+165
2014
+17
2015
−289
2016
−290
2017
−508
2018
−367
2019
−1,014
2021
+350
2022
+218
2023
+126
2024
−432
2025
−301
Stillwater anchors Payne County, where a large student and faculty population tempers the otherwise reliably Republican lean of surrounding rural Oklahoma, producing margins that shift noticeably with student turnout cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 49.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.3 points.
A population of 82,972, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,809 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Manhattan, KS and College Station-Bryan, TX.
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In 2024, Stillwater, OK, Oklahoma voted Republican by 25.3 points (R+25.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 29,279 votes cast, 10,560 went Democratic and 17,962 went Republican.
When did Stillwater, OK, Oklahoma last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Stillwater, OK, Oklahoma voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Stillwater, OK, Oklahoma?
Stillwater, OK, Oklahoma has a population of 82,972 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Stillwater, OK, Oklahoma?
Median household income in Stillwater, OK, Oklahoma is $49,809 — below the national median of $80,734. The Oklahoma state median is $65,039.
What is the political history of Stillwater, OK, Oklahoma?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Stillwater, OK, Oklahoma from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 24 went Republican.
