Washington, DC (Hagerstown) · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles · 30 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
68.4%
2,446,721 votes · D+38.9
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 67.1%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
61.5%
121,570 votes · R+23.5
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 58.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
2,446,721votes
68.4% of the vote · D+38.9
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 2,305,250 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,157,366votes
32.4% of the vote · D+32.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,054,848 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+114.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+95.1 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +81.7 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
+12.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+4.6 · U.S. D+7.5
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · +10.9 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.
Washington, DC (Hagerstown) · 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 Washington, DC (Hagerstown), by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama27Clinton13963,994 votes · 40 of 40 countiesprimary
Clinton31Sanders9893,754 votes · 40 of 40 countiesprimary
Biden401,264,484 votes · 40 of 40 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.
Where a cell reads All others, no named candidate led — the source’s residual bucket did. That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes. It is a total, not a person, so it carries no candidate colour.
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 · 2026D+38.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+32.1
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 6.4 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Washington, DC (Hagerstown)
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
2,684,398
1,526,395
492,958
614,390
50,655
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−15,531 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −285,513 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Washington, DC (Hagerstown) in Washington, DC (Hagerstown): net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+27,364
2012
+7,003
2013
+3,840
2014
−21,215
2015
−31,582
2016
−29,471
2017
−18,095
2018
−26,348
2019
−26,421
2021
−37,115
2022
−64,797
2023
−37,446
2024
−15,699
2025
−15,531
The Washington, DC (Hagrstwn) media market has a presidential record spanning 1892 through 2024. Across that period its aggregated margin moved through a wide range, from D+95 in 1904 to R+24 in 1928. Those two endpoints mark the strongest Democratic showing and the strongest Republican showing within the available record.
The area's aggregated margin was D+32 in 2024, on the Democratic side of its historical range relative to the R+24 recorded in 1928. The 2024 figure represents the aggregated total across the market's constituent counties rather than the result of any single community. It stands below the D+95 of 1904.
The market comprises 40 constituent counties, anchored by Frederick County, Loudoun County, and Stafford County as its largest. Its combined population was 7,226,288 in the 2024 ACS five-year estimate. The median age across the area was 38.6 in the same estimate. These figures describe an aggregated geography defined by media-market boundaries rather than a single jurisdiction, and the presidential margins reported here are summed across all 40 of its constituent counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.1 points in 1904 and a Republican high of 23.5 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 6.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.1 points.
A population of 7,226,288, a 46% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $124,776 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Baltimore and San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose.
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How did Washington, DC (Hagerstown), Virginia vote in 2024?
In 2024, Washington, DC (Hagerstown), Virginia voted Democratic by 32.1 points (D+32.1), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 3,572,463 votes cast, 2,305,250 went Democratic and 1,157,366 went Republican.
When did Washington, DC (Hagerstown), Virginia last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Washington, DC (Hagerstown), Virginia voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Washington, DC (Hagerstown), Virginia?
Washington, DC (Hagerstown), Virginia has a population of 7,226,288 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Washington, DC (Hagerstown), Virginia?
Median household income in Washington, DC (Hagerstown), Virginia is $124,776 — above the national median of $80,734. The Virginia state median is $93,170.
What is the political history of Washington, DC (Hagerstown), Virginia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Washington, DC (Hagerstown), Virginia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 23 went Democratic and 11 went Republican.
