Lima-Van Wert-Celina, 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 Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH, 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
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH
Year
Total registered
2016
148,119
2018
151,153
2020
149,552
2022
148,790
2024
149,269
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−194 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −11,366 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH in Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,272
2012
−1,148
2013
−926
2014
−666
2015
−1,247
2016
−1,009
2017
−770
2018
−924
2019
−730
2021
−853
2022
−936
2023
−556
2024
−135
2025
−194
Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH sits in the Industrial Midwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 55.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 55.6 points.
A population of 218,783, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,106 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Quincy-Hannibal, IL-MO and Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL.
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How did Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH, Ohio vote in 2024?
In 2024, Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH, Ohio voted Republican by 55.6 points (R+55.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 110,480 votes cast, 24,061 went Democratic and 85,515 went Republican.
When did Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH, Ohio last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH, Ohio voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH, Ohio?
Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH, Ohio has a population of 218,783 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH, Ohio?
Median household income in Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH, Ohio is $70,106 — below the national median of $80,734. The Ohio state median is $71,389.
What is the political history of Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH, Ohio?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH, Ohio from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 25 went Republican.
