Burlington-Plattsburgh · 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
67.1%
155,354 votes · D+34.3
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 64.9%
Republican
William McKinley1896
75.3%
69,640 votes · R+53.9
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 72.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
294,485votes
62.2% of the vote · D+27.2
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 286,801 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
186,901votes
60.8% of the vote · R+22.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 177,513 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
Barack Obama2012
+26.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+30.4 · U.S. D+3.9
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +24.4 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+47.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+53.9 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +36.2 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.
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.
Burlington-Plattsburgh · 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 Burlington-Plattsburgh, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama14Clinton3175,478 votes · 17 of 17 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Sanders17159,597 votes · 17 of 17 countiesprimary
Sanders14Biden3179,756 votes · 17 of 17 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 · 2026R+0.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+22.8
Burlington-Plattsburgh registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 23-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 Burlington-Plattsburgh
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
205,955
64,318
65,015
69,361
7,261
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+359 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −7,808 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Burlington-Plattsburgh in Burlington-Plattsburgh: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,585
2012
−2,213
2013
−1,665
2014
−1,908
2015
−4,299
2016
−1,732
2017
−1,375
2018
−243
2019
−846
2021
+3,432
2022
+2,020
2023
+1,195
2024
+1,052
2025
+359
Burlington anchors Vermont's most reliably left-leaning corridor, while the Plattsburgh side stretches into Clinton and Essex counties—North Country territory where margins tighten and ticket-splitting remains a live variable.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 53.9 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 22.8 points.
A population of 861,911, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $81,302 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Portland-Auburn and Albany-Schenectady-Troy.
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How did Burlington-Plattsburgh, Vermont vote in 2024?
In 2024, Burlington-Plattsburgh, Vermont voted Democratic by 22.8 points (D+22.8), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 478,409 votes cast, 286,801 went Democratic and 177,513 went Republican.
When did Burlington-Plattsburgh, Vermont last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Burlington-Plattsburgh, Vermont voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Burlington-Plattsburgh, Vermont?
Burlington-Plattsburgh, Vermont has a population of 861,911 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Burlington-Plattsburgh, Vermont?
Median household income in Burlington-Plattsburgh, Vermont is $81,302 — above the national median of $80,734. The Vermont state median is $85,974.
What is the political history of Burlington-Plattsburgh, Vermont?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Burlington-Plattsburgh, Vermont from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 24 went Republican.
