Augusta-Aiken · 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
95.2%
24,030 votes · D+91.3
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 94.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
73.4%
82,510 votes · R+47.4
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · 65.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
163,091votes
46.8% of the vote · R+5.1
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 158,157 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
190,333votes
54.2% of the vote · R+9.2
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 181,018 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
James M. Cox1920
+109.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+83.2 · U.S. R+26.2
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +89.6 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+53.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+31.3 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +24.2 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.
Augusta-Aiken · 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 Augusta-Aiken, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama17Clinton176,106 votes · 18 of 18 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Clinton1853,634 votes · 18 of 18 countiesprimary
Biden1875,138 votes · 18 of 18 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 Augusta-Aiken
Year
Total registered
2016
480,938
2018
499,617
2020
548,653
2022
547,306
2024
562,564
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+4,102 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +34,871 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Augusta-Aiken in Augusta-Aiken: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+120
2012
+1,504
2013
−2
2014
−600
2015
+1,826
2016
+1,278
2017
+2,642
2018
+1,494
2019
+2,384
2021
+4,805
2022
+7,069
2023
+4,636
2024
+3,613
2025
+4,102
Spanning Augusta, Georgia and Aiken, South Carolina, this media market straddles a state line and two distinct electoral environments, with Aiken County's reliably conservative lean contrasting the more competitive dynamics of the broader metro area.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 91.3 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 47.4 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 4.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.2 points.
A population of 741,452, a 51% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,414 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Macon and Jackson, MS.
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In 2024, Augusta-Aiken, Georgia voted Republican by 9.2 points (R+9.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 351,454 votes cast, 158,157 went Democratic and 190,333 went Republican.
When did Augusta-Aiken, Georgia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Augusta-Aiken, Georgia voted Democratic was 1980.
How many people live in Augusta-Aiken, Georgia?
Augusta-Aiken, Georgia has a population of 741,452 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Augusta-Aiken, Georgia?
Median household income in Augusta-Aiken, Georgia is $67,414 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Augusta-Aiken, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Augusta-Aiken, Georgia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
