Presque Isle · which candidate this place backed 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 this place is a single county: Aroostook County, Maine. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Presque Isle, 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+12.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+26.2
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 13 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Presque Isle in Presque Isle: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−142
2012
−399
2013
−572
2014
−518
2015
−477
2016
−437
2017
−417
2018
−113
2019
−45
2021
+352
2022
+716
2023
+412
2024
+67
2025
+167
The Presque Isle market covers a vast, sparsely populated potato-farming region that has shifted measurably toward Republican margins over the past decade, even as Maine's statewide results remain competitive.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 77.4 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 6.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.2 points.
A population of 67,058, a 93% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $56,700 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Watertown and Bangor.
Akashic
Political twins — media markets
The media markets whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
Compare two places, side by side
Twelve curated comparisons line up election history, demographics, and the divergence story for two places at a glance. Browse all comparisons →
Cite this page
All citations released under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Akashic Intelligence.
Presque Isle, Maine. Akashic. https://akashic.app/dma/552/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
License: CC BY 4.0
Embed this page
A live widget for your site — no API key, attribution built in, CC BY 4.0. All widgets & sizes →
In 2024, Presque Isle, Maine voted Republican by 26.2 points (R+26.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 35,653 votes cast, 12,900 went Democratic and 22,246 went Republican.
When did Presque Isle, Maine last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Presque Isle, Maine voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Presque Isle, Maine?
Presque Isle, Maine has a population of 67,058 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Presque Isle, Maine?
Median household income in Presque Isle, Maine is $56,700 — below the national median of $80,734. The Maine state median is $74,733.
What is the political history of Presque Isle, Maine?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Presque Isle, Maine from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 25 went Republican.
