Williston, ND · 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: Williams County, North Dakota. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Williston, ND, 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
+352 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +8,960 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Williston, ND in Williston, ND: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,696
2012
+2,037
2013
+2,489
2014
+2,089
2015
+2,620
2016
−1,608
2017
−1,296
2018
+1,483
2019
+1,601
2021
−2,949
2022
−1,012
2023
+676
2024
+782
2025
+352
Williston's population roughly doubled during the 2010s fracking boom, pulling in transient workers and reshaping housing and services. Energy prices and extraction-industry sentiment have since become the dominant lens through which local voters read federal candidates.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 67.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 67.6 points.
A population of 39,555, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,595 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Minot, ND and Gillette, WY.
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In 2024, Williston, ND, North Dakota voted Republican by 67.6 points (R+67.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 15,122 votes cast, 2,276 went Democratic and 12,501 went Republican.
When did Williston, ND, North Dakota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Williston, ND, North Dakota voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Williston, ND, North Dakota?
Williston, ND, North Dakota has a population of 39,555 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Williston, ND, North Dakota?
Median household income in Williston, ND, North Dakota is $85,595 — above the national median of $80,734. The North Dakota state median is $76,657.
What is the political history of Williston, ND, North Dakota?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Williston, ND, North Dakota from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
