Bangor · 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 Bangor, by party and cycle.
○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 · 2025R+7.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+9.4
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 2.1 points.
Domestic migration in Bangor in Bangor: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−350
2012
−571
2013
−261
2014
−917
2015
−1,623
2016
−130
2017
+982
2018
+1,062
2019
+1,464
2021
+4,737
2022
+4,373
2023
+3,444
2024
+1,930
2025
+2,033
The Bangor DMA stretches across northern and eastern Maine, covering vast low-density territory where broadcast television remains a primary news source and ad buys must account for enormous geographic spread relative to voter population.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 31.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 55.6 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.4 points.
A population of 350,915, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,763 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Portland-Auburn and Eugene.
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In 2024, Bangor, Maine voted Republican by 9.4 points (R+9.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 205,148 votes cast, 90,830 went Democratic and 110,118 went Republican.
When did Bangor, Maine last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Bangor, Maine voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Bangor, Maine?
Bangor, Maine has a population of 350,915 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bangor, Maine?
Median household income in Bangor, Maine is $65,763 — below the national median of $80,734. The Maine state median is $74,733.
What is the political history of Bangor, Maine?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bangor, Maine from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
