Fort Wayne · 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
56.8%
107,208 votes · D+15.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 55.3%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
67.4%
143,016 votes · R+35.2
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 67.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
131,369votes
43.3% of the vote · R+12.2
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 123,999 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
215,251votes
64.2% of the vote · R+30.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 213,463 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
William J. Bryan1908
+13.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+3.7 · U.S. R+9.6
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +10.4 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+36.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.8 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +35.1 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.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Fort Wayne · 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 Fort Wayne, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton11Obama1116,364 votes · 12 of 12 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Sanders10Clinton252,164 votes · 12 of 12 countiesprimary
Biden1240,936 votes · 12 of 12 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
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Fort Wayne
Year
Total registered
2016
517,180
2018
485,064
2020
501,193
2022
509,649
2024
528,787
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+795 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −4,514 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Fort Wayne in Fort Wayne: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,532
2012
−2,786
2013
−1,337
2014
−1,825
2015
−937
2016
−2,353
2017
−242
2018
+669
2019
+1,146
2021
+1,340
2022
+834
2023
+645
2024
+1,069
2025
+795
Fort Wayne's media market covers a swath of rural and mid-size industrial communities in northeast Indiana, where Republican margins tend to run deep but turnout variation in Allen County can shift the region's aggregate numbers.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 22.4 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 35.2 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 1.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 31.9 points.
A population of 753,159, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,338 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Evansville and Lincoln & Hastings-Kearney.
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In 2024, Fort Wayne, Indiana voted Republican by 31.9 points (R+31.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 327,904 votes cast, 108,873 went Democratic and 213,463 went Republican.
When did Fort Wayne, Indiana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Fort Wayne, Indiana voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Fort Wayne, Indiana?
Fort Wayne, Indiana has a population of 753,159 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Fort Wayne, Indiana?
Median household income in Fort Wayne, Indiana is $70,338 — below the national median of $80,734. The Indiana state median is $71,389.
What is the political history of Fort Wayne, Indiana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Fort Wayne, Indiana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
