Visalia, CA · 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: Tulare County, California. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Visalia, CA, 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+5.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+20.7
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 15 points more Republican than the rolls.
215,580 registered voters · 2024 · up from 207,361 in 2022
Domestic migration in Visalia, CA in Visalia, CA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,118
2012
−1,856
2013
−2,137
2014
−2,183
2015
−2,826
2016
−2,596
2017
−1,078
2018
−1,241
2019
−1,960
2021
+192
2022
−2,392
2023
−1,940
2024
−2,187
2025
−1,748
Visalia anchors Tulare County, one of California's top dairy and citrus-producing regions, and its electorate leans considerably more conservative than the coastal metros — a durable pattern rooted in the area's agricultural economy and fast-growing Latino working-class population.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 42.3 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 33.3 points in 2004. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 12.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.7 points.
A population of 478,693, a 26% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,300 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Hanford-Corcoran, CA and Bakersfield-Delano, CA.
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In 2024, Visalia, CA, California voted Republican by 20.7 points (R+20.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 138,271 votes cast, 53,221 went Democratic and 81,854 went Republican.
When did Visalia, CA, California last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Visalia, CA, California voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Visalia, CA, California?
Visalia, CA, California has a population of 478,693 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Visalia, CA, California?
Median household income in Visalia, CA, California is $71,300 — below the national median of $80,734. The California state median is $99,122.
What is the political history of Visalia, CA, California?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Visalia, CA, California from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
