Wheeling, WV-OH · 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
68.7%
61,115 votes · D+37.4
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 63.0%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
70.1%
44,159 votes · R+41.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 69.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
62,642votes
63.0% of the vote · D+26.6
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 61,115 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
51,618votes
56.6% of the vote · R+13.1
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 50,237 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
Michael Dukakis1988
+19.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+12.2 · U.S. R+7.7
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +18.7 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+44.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+39.6 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +41.1 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.
Wheeling, WV-OH · 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 Wheeling, WV-OH, by party and cycle.
Sanders2Clinton118,640 votes · 3 of 3 countiesprimary
Biden313,695 votes · 3 of 3 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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+11.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+41.6
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 30 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Wheeling, WV-OH
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
46,865
13,909
19,365
11,142
2,449
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−18 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −5,249 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Wheeling, WV-OH in Wheeling, WV-OH: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−256
2012
−274
2013
−151
2014
−625
2015
−432
2016
−764
2017
−1,145
2018
−582
2019
−533
2021
−235
2022
−204
2023
−177
2024
+147
2025
−18
Once a Democratic stronghold anchored by steel and glass manufacturing, the Wheeling metro has shifted sharply toward Republican margins over the past two decades as union-household share fell and working-class realignment accelerated across the Upper Ohio Valley.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 41.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 41.6 points.
A population of 136,920, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,510 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH and Hermitage, PA.
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How did Wheeling, WV-OH, West Virginia vote in 2024?
In 2024, Wheeling, WV-OH, West Virginia voted Republican by 41.6 points (R+41.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 62,959 votes cast, 17,993 went Democratic and 44,159 went Republican.
When did Wheeling, WV-OH, West Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Wheeling, WV-OH, West Virginia voted Democratic was 2000.
How many people live in Wheeling, WV-OH, West Virginia?
Wheeling, WV-OH, West Virginia has a population of 136,920 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Wheeling, WV-OH, West Virginia?
Median household income in Wheeling, WV-OH, West Virginia is $57,510 — below the national median of $80,734. The West Virginia state median is $71,389.
What is the political history of Wheeling, WV-OH, West Virginia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Wheeling, WV-OH, West Virginia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
