Participation measured against the same-year citizen voting-age population. Audited cycles count total general-election participants — ballots or participating voters, not presidential candidate votes.
2020–20243 cycles · 3 audited
2024 turnout
75.3%10,023 participants ÷ 13,316 CVAP
2020→2022 drop-off
+37.4 ptsPresidential-dependent
Drop-off vs state
+4.6 ptsPositive means a larger decline than the statewide pattern
Mechanical 2026
37.9%Recent-cycle and two-cycle persistence scenarios; not a forecast
Participation by cycle
Presidential Midterm
0%20%40%60%80%
40.7%
202020222024
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Cycle
Participants
CVAP
Turnout
Series
Quality
10,023
13,316 ± 1,007
75.3%
Audited
E/A
2022Mid
5,432
13,345 ± 867
40.7%
Audited
E/A
10,438
13,372 ± 874
78.1%
Audited
E/A
Sources and methods
2024: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 323/229.
2022: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 322/184.
2020: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 321/4.
presidential history
Party record book
Preakness, NJ · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
2004–2024 · 6 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
46.8%
4,842 votes · R+5.8
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 45.6%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
59.6%
5,096 votes · R+19.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 56.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
4,842votes
46.8% of the vote · R+5.8
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 4,089 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
5,559votes
56.0% of the vote · R+16.3
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,445 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
Joe Biden2020
−10.3pts D vs U.S.
Place R+5.8 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · −11.7 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
+17.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+19.5 · U.S. R+2.5
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +16.2 pts
U.S. House elections · 1 House
U.S. House
Each row shows U.S. House votes counted inside this Place. “Vote lead” is the local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Preakness · 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. The figures below are Passaic County, New Jersey, the county containing Preakness — Preakness’s own primary vote sits inside those totals and is not separately reported.
Presidential nominating contests in Preakness, 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.
Preakness is a census-designated place within Wayne, Passaic County, where Latino residents form a substantial share of a majority-minority population that has driven competitive margins in state legislative races.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 19.5 points in 2004. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 10.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.3 points.
A population of 18,520, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $133,205 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Ringwood and Wanaque.
Akashic
Political twins — cities
The cities whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Preakness, New Jersey voted Republican by 16.3 points (R+16.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 9,925 votes cast, 3,938 went Democratic and 5,559 went Republican.
How many people live in Preakness, New Jersey?
Preakness, New Jersey has a population of 18,520 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Preakness, New Jersey?
Median household income in Preakness, New Jersey is $133,205 — above the national median of $80,734. The New Jersey state median is $103,556.
What is the political history of Preakness, New Jersey?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Preakness, New Jersey from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 0 went Democratic and 6 went Republican.
