Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC · 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 Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC, 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.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+3.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+9.3
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 6.0 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008
1,032,766
447,421
375,596
209,091
658
2012
1,093,117
448,423
386,310
255,336
3,048
2016
1,114,449
420,615
385,484
303,626
4,724
2020
1,176,131
404,178
404,268
359,837
7,848
2022
1,172,201
382,135
398,535
384,459
7,072
2024
1,226,421
373,518
414,069
427,265
11,569
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+10,266 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +112,536 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC in Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+3,176
2012
+2,240
2013
+3,200
2014
+4,719
2015
+4,434
2016
+10,507
2017
+7,710
2018
+7,834
2019
+9,381
2021
+12,209
2022
+14,147
2023
+11,980
2024
+10,733
2025
+10,266
Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC sits in the Carolinas. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.0 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 43.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.3 points.
A population of 1,724,503, a 60% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,640 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC and Jackson-Vicksburg-Brookhaven, MS.
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How did Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC, North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC, North Carolina voted Republican by 9.3 points (R+9.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 910,595 votes cast, 406,384 went Democratic and 491,019 went Republican.
When did Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC, North Carolina last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC, North Carolina voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC, North Carolina?
Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC, North Carolina has a population of 1,724,503 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC, North Carolina?
Median household income in Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC, North Carolina is $65,640 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC, North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC, North Carolina from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
