Wahpeton, ND-MN · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
68.8%
8,151 votes · D+39.9
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 58.9%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
78.2%
7,589 votes · R+58.6
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 69.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
8,151votes
68.8% of the vote · D+39.9
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 7,276 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
9,001votes
68.3% of the vote · R+37.1
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 8,347 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
+22.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+39.9 · U.S. D+17.8
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +9.2 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+38.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.4 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +38.2 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Wahpeton, ND-MN · how this place’s counties split between candidates 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 there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Wahpeton, ND-MN, 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.
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−20 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −888 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Wahpeton, ND-MN in Wahpeton, ND-MN: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−63
2012
−56
2013
−50
2014
0
2015
−191
2016
−67
2017
−81
2018
−168
2019
−132
2021
−57
2022
−27
2023
−5
2024
+29
2025
−20
Wahpeton-Breckenridge straddles the North Dakota–Minnesota line, functioning as a single small industrial and retail hub whose cross-state geography complicates clean partisan sorting in either state's data.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 39.9 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 58.6 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.9 points.
A population of 22,955, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,316 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Watertown, SD and Jamestown, ND.
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The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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In 2024, Wahpeton, ND-MN, Minnesota voted Republican by 37.9 points (R+37.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 11,614 votes cast, 3,459 went Democratic and 7,866 went Republican.
When did Wahpeton, ND-MN, Minnesota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Wahpeton, ND-MN, Minnesota voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Wahpeton, ND-MN, Minnesota?
Wahpeton, ND-MN, Minnesota has a population of 22,955 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Wahpeton, ND-MN, Minnesota?
Median household income in Wahpeton, ND-MN, Minnesota is $74,316 — below the national median of $80,734. The Minnesota state median is $89,062.
What is the political history of Wahpeton, ND-MN, Minnesota?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Wahpeton, ND-MN, Minnesota from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 5 went Democratic and 28 went Republican.
