Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH · 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
76.2%
2,000,484 votes · D+52.6
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 62.6%
Republican
William McKinley1896
69.0%
314,982 votes · R+42.5
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 66.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
2,731,768votes
62.6% of the vote · D+27.9
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 2,477,243 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,626,729votes
38.7% of the vote · D+20.2
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 1,553,120 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+30.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+52.6 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · +28.7 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+36.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+42.5 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +15.1 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.
Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH · 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 Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton16Obama21,501,718 votes · 18 of 18 countiesprimary
Sanders14Clinton41,368,243 votes · 18 of 18 countiesprimary
Biden12Sanders4Buttigieg21,493,578 votes · 18 of 18 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 · 2026D+6.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+20.2
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 14 points more Democratic than the rolls.
1,435,595 registered voters · 2026 · down from 4,370,280 in 2025
Democratic30.5%Republican24.4%Unaffiliated45.0%
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−28,472 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −298,044 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH in Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−9,784
2012
−9,036
2013
−5,966
2014
−9,173
2015
−22,129
2016
−27,740
2017
−20,621
2018
−24,922
2019
−25,931
2021
−22,246
2022
−44,028
2023
−33,220
2024
−14,776
2025
−28,472
Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH sits in New England. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 52.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 42.5 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 7.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.2 points.
A population of 8,383,885, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $106,848 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD and Albany-Schenectady, NY.
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Political twins — combined metros
The combined metros 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.
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How did Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH, Massachusetts vote in 2024?
In 2024, Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH, Massachusetts voted Democratic by 20.2 points (D+20.2), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 4,208,456 votes cast, 2,477,243 went Democratic and 1,626,729 went Republican.
When did Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH, Massachusetts last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH, Massachusetts voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH, Massachusetts?
Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH, Massachusetts has a population of 8,383,885 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH, Massachusetts?
Median household income in Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH, Massachusetts is $106,848 — above the national median of $80,734. The Massachusetts state median is $103,960.
What is the political history of Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH, Massachusetts?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH, Massachusetts from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 12 went Republican.
