Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI · 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 Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI, 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 Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI
Year
Total registered
2016
295,773
2018
292,888
2020
311,343
2022
314,116
2024
319,877
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+300 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −17,620 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI in Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,856
2012
−1,929
2013
−2,481
2014
−3,282
2015
−2,932
2016
−2,232
2017
−1,204
2018
−1,726
2019
−1,046
2021
+243
2022
+89
2023
+246
2024
+190
2025
+300
Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI sits in the Great Lakes. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 51.6 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.3 points.
A population of 375,430, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,746 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Erie-Meadville, PA and Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI.
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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 Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI, Michigan vote in 2024?
In 2024, Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI, Michigan voted Republican by 9.3 points (R+9.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 215,485 votes cast, 96,208 went Democratic and 116,275 went Republican.
When did Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI, Michigan last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI, Michigan voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI, Michigan?
Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI, Michigan has a population of 375,430 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI, Michigan?
Median household income in Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI, Michigan is $64,746 — below the national median of $80,734. The Michigan state median is $72,875.
What is the political history of Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI, Michigan?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI, Michigan from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
