Tyler, 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: Smith 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 Tyler, 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 Tyler, TX
Year
Total registered
2016
135,567
2018
135,935
2020
146,149
2022
153,936
2024
162,009
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+2,112 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +25,305 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Tyler, TX in Tyler, TX: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,031
2012
+808
2013
+357
2014
+1,649
2015
+1,404
2016
+1,474
2017
+822
2018
+1,660
2019
+2,120
2021
+3,079
2022
+4,261
2023
+2,521
2024
+2,007
2025
+2,112
Tyler anchors Smith County, where petroleum industry employment and a large evangelical Christian population have produced Republican presidential margins exceeding 30 points in recent cycles, even as modest demographic diversification continues.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 82.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 49.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 5.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.1 points.
A population of 241,740, a 58% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,192 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Amarillo, TX and Longview, TX.
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In 2024, Tyler, TX, Texas voted Republican by 45.1 points (R+45.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 103,879 votes cast, 28,041 went Democratic and 74,862 went Republican.
When did Tyler, TX, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Tyler, TX, Texas voted Democratic was 1948.
How many people live in Tyler, TX, Texas?
Tyler, TX, Texas has a population of 241,740 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Tyler, TX, Texas?
Median household income in Tyler, TX, Texas is $74,192 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Tyler, TX, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Tyler, TX, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 20 went Republican.
