combined metro areaMemphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR
presidential margin
2004–2024 · Democratic minus Republican
2004D+6.4
2008D+14.1
2012D+13.0
2016D+11.2
2020D+13.6
2024D+6.9
full record · 1892 → 2024
presidential returns
2024 turnout 52.1% of 993,825 citizens 18+
Year
Democrat
Republican
Others
Total
CVAP
Turnout
2024
272,304
236,481
9,065
517,850
993,825
52.1%
2020
322,871
244,656
9,684
577,211
1,013,020
57.0%
2016
276,396
219,169
16,721
512,286
998,135
51.3%
2012
310,137
238,376
5,323
553,836
974,886
56.8%
2008
334,354
251,209
4,064
589,627
942,134
62.6%
2004
281,692
247,658
3,249
532,599
909,382†
58.6%
† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
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D+60R+60
11 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupMemphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-ARUnited States
African American†45.7%9.9%
African0.7%0.5%
Nigerian0.3%0.2%
English8.0%9.5%
American6.1%5.3%
Irish6.0%9.4%
German5.1%12.5%
Italian1.8%4.8%
Scottish1.2%1.3%
Scotch-Irish0.9%—
French0.9%1.6%
Mexican4.1%11.3%
Honduran0.6%0.3%
Guatemalan0.6%0.5%
Puerto Rican0.3%1.8%
Venezuelan0.3%—
Salvadoran0.2%0.7%
Cuban0.2%0.7%
Asian Indian0.8%1.4%
Vietnamese0.4%0.6%
Chinese0.3%1.3%
Filipino0.2%0.9%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR
United States
Median age
36.9
39.1
Age 18–24
8.7%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
15.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR
United States
Median household income
$66,557
$84,427
Poverty rate
17.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
30.6%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
9.0%
22.3%
Spanish
5.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR
United States
Catholic
4.7%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
32.6%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
35.9%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
5.7%
5.2%
Black Protestant
17.0%
2.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+48.7%
1896
+26.3%
1900
+36.2%
1904
+48.7%
1908
+38.1%
1912
+59.2%
1916
+57.7%
1920
+41.1%
1924
+45.4%
1928
+38.3%
1932
+76.6%
1936
+93.2%
1940
+80.7%
1944
+67.7%
1948
+16.9%
1952
+10.1%
1956
+3.0%
1960
+1.6%
1964
+0.2%
1968
+7.1%
1972
−34.2%
1976
+11.3%
1980
+7.1%
1984
−3.1%
1988
−4.2%
1992
+9.3%
1996
+11.2%
2000
+7.7%
2004
+6.4%
2008
+14.1%
2012
+13.0%
2016
+11.2%
2020
+13.6%
2024
+6.9%
DemocraticRepublican
34 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
D
52.6%Harris272,304
45.7%Trump236,481
1.8%
D+6.9
R+6.6
D+8.4
517,850
D
55.9%Biden322,871
42.4%Trump244,656
1.7%
D+13.6
D+2.4
D+9.1
577,211
D
54.0%Clinton276,396
42.8%Trump219,169
3.3%
D+11.2
R+1.8
D+9.1
512,286
D
56.0%Obama310,137
43.0%Romney238,376
1.0%
D+13.0
R+1.1
D+9.1
553,836
D
56.7%Obama334,354
42.6%McCain251,209
0.7%
D+14.1
D+7.7
D+6.8
589,627
D
52.9%Kerry281,692
46.5%Bush247,658
0.6%
D+6.4
R+1.4
D+8.8
532,599
D
53.2%Gore243,800
45.5%Bush208,297
1.3%
D+7.7
R+3.4
D+7.2
458,187
D
53.3%Clinton234,872
42.1%Dole185,594
4.7%
D+11.2
D+1.9
D+2.7
441,044
D
51.4%Clinton247,943
42.2%Bush203,192
6.4%
D+9.3
D+13.5
D+3.7
482,015
R
47.6%Dukakis192,903
51.8%Bush210,123
0.6%
R+4.2
R+1.1
D+3.5
405,658
R
48.1%Mondale208,097
51.2%Reagan221,683
0.7%
R+3.1
R+10.2
D+15.1
432,770
D
52.1%Carter209,864
45.1%Reagan181,426
2.8%
D+7.1
R+4.2
D+16.8
402,703
D
55.0%Carter201,267
43.7%Ford159,938
1.2%
D+11.3
D+45.5
D+9.2
365,750
R
31.8%McGovern100,779
66.1%Nixon209,131
2.1%
R+34.2
R+41.4
R+11.1
316,608
O
35.2%Humphrey105,854
28.1%Nixon84,387
36.7%
Wallace +1.5
D+6.9
D+7.8
300,695
D
50.1%Johnson128,158
49.9%Goldwater127,584
0.0%
D+0.2
R+1.4
R+22.4
255,821
D
48.7%Kennedy100,565
47.1%Nixon97,213
4.2%
D+1.6
R+1.4
D+1.5
206,463
D
48.3%Stevenson78,527
45.3%Eisenhower73,637
6.3%
D+3.0
R+7.1
D+18.4
162,478
D
55.0%Stevenson92,069
44.9%Eisenhower75,131
0.1%
D+10.1
R+6.8
D+20.9
167,421
O
35.1%Truman29,626
18.2%Dewey15,351
46.7%
Thurmond +11.5
R+50.8
D+12.4
84,327
D
83.8%Roosevelt65,712
16.1%Dewey12,622
0.1%
D+67.7
R+13.0
D+60.2
78,428
D
90.3%Roosevelt77,615
9.5%Willkie8,207
0.2%
D+80.7
R+12.5
D+70.8
85,969
D
96.5%Roosevelt79,348
3.3%Landon2,745
0.1%
D+93.2
D+16.5
D+68.9
82,199
D
87.8%Roosevelt53,622
11.1%Hoover6,810
1.1%
D+76.6
D+38.3
D+58.9
61,077
D
69.0%Smith31,318
30.7%Hoover13,938
0.2%
D+38.3
R+7.1
D+55.8
45,361
D
69.6%Davis24,150
24.2%Coolidge8,394
6.2%
D+45.4
D+4.3
D+70.6
34,706
D
70.0%Cox27,311
28.9%Harding11,280
1.1%
D+41.1
R+16.6
D+67.3
39,003
D
78.3%Wilson20,877
20.6%Hughes5,495
1.1%
D+57.7
R+1.5
D+54.6
26,653
D
68.3%Wilson12,545
9.1%Taft1,674
22.6%
D+59.2
D+21.1
D+39.6
18,370
D
67.8%Bryan11,969
29.8%Taft5,251
2.4%
D+38.1
R+10.7
D+47.6
17,648
D
73.4%Parker13,659
24.7%Roosevelt4,594
1.9%
D+48.7
D+12.5
D+68.4
18,606
D
67.5%Bryan14,206
31.4%McKinley6,595
1.1%
D+36.2
D+9.9
D+43.7
21,036
D
62.1%Bryan16,490
35.8%McKinley9,509
2.1%
D+26.3
R+22.4
D+32.4
26,545
D
69.9%Cleveland14,918
21.2%Harrison4,517
9.0%
D+48.7
—
D+47.1
21,352
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
818,408
2018
876,951
2020
909,105
2022
910,980
2024
938,489
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−10,806 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −99,682 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−4,059
2012
−2,432
2013
−9,567
2014
−8,731
2015
−8,604
2016
−7,617
2017
−6,440
2018
−4,641
2019
−4,505
2021
−6,003
2022
−6,713
2023
−9,064
2024
−10,500
2025
−10,806
Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR sits in the Deep South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 93.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 34.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 6.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.9 points.
A population of 1,384,864, a 40% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,557 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Columbia-Sumter-Orangeburg, SC and Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL.
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How did Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi vote in 2024?
In 2024, Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi voted Democratic by 6.9 points (D+6.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 517,850 votes cast, 272,304 went Democratic and 236,481 went Republican.
When did Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi?
Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi has a population of 1,384,864 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi?
Median household income in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi is $66,557 — below the national median of $80,734. The Mississippi state median is $56,447.
What is the political history of Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR, Mississippi from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 29 went Democratic and 3 went Republican.
