Sweetwater, TX · 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: Nolan County, Texas. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Sweetwater, TX, 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 Sweetwater, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
8,747
2018
8,789
2020
8,871
2022
8,751
2024
8,494
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+9 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −1,317 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Sweetwater, TX in Sweetwater, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−74
2012
−250
2013
+99
2014
+8
2015
−60
2016
−125
2017
−224
2018
−106
2019
−115
2021
−104
2022
−138
2023
−156
2024
−81
2025
+9
Sweetwater anchors Nolan County in the heart of the Permian Basin's outer edge, where energy-sector employment and a sparse, majority-rural population have produced Republican margins exceeding 30 points in recent presidential cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.5 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 59.2 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 59.2 points.
A population of 14,454, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $50,747 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Snyder, TX and Big Spring, TX.
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In 2024, Sweetwater, TX, Texas voted Republican by 59.2 points (R+59.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 5,115 votes cast, 1,020 went Democratic and 4,048 went Republican.
When did Sweetwater, TX, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Sweetwater, TX, Texas voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Sweetwater, TX, Texas?
Sweetwater, TX, Texas has a population of 14,454 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Sweetwater, TX, Texas?
Median household income in Sweetwater, TX, Texas is $50,747 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Sweetwater, TX, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Sweetwater, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 19 went Democratic and 10 went Republican.
