Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem · 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. Roosevelt1940
66.7%
125,285 votes · D+33.4
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 65.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
70.8%
243,433 votes · R+43.3
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 65.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
425,535votes
43.1% of the vote · R+12.5
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 423,811 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
548,948votes
55.5% of the vote · R+12.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 528,214 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
John W. Davis1924
+27.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+2.7 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +23.5 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+22.5pts R vs U.S.
Place D+0.1 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · +21.5 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.
Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem · 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 Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton11Obama4266,847 votes · 15 of 15 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Clinton13Sanders2172,788 votes · 15 of 15 countiesprimary
Biden15204,670 votes · 15 of 15 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
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2012D+5.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+12.5
Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 18-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
1,112,385
481,113
407,503
223,076
693
2012 (partial)
1,175,773
481,010
418,871
272,708
3,184
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+11,119 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +116,450 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem in Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+2,461
2012
+1,681
2013
+3,066
2014
+4,326
2015
+4,466
2016
+10,778
2017
+7,797
2018
+8,102
2019
+9,494
2021
+13,434
2022
+14,805
2023
+13,435
2024
+11,486
2025
+11,119
This Triad media market spans three mid-sized cities whose collar counties have shifted measurably in statewide contests over the past decade, making suburban Guilford and Forsyth bellwethers for North Carolina's broader political realignment.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.4 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 43.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 1.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.5 points.
A population of 1,867,535, a 61% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,740 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Charlotte and Augusta-Aiken.
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How did Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, North Carolina voted Republican by 12.5 points (R+12.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 988,349 votes cast, 425,535 went Democratic and 548,948 went Republican.
When did Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, North Carolina last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, North Carolina voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, North Carolina?
Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, North Carolina has a population of 1,867,535 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, North Carolina?
Median household income in Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, North Carolina is $64,740 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, North Carolina from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
