Marquette · 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
68.5%
61,144 votes · D+37.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 59.1%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
81.7%
28,130 votes · R+68.9
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · 75.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
61,144votes
68.5% of the vote · D+37.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 58,463 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
72,396votes
57.6% of the vote · R+16.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 67,673 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
George McGovern1972
+15.5pts D vs U.S.
Place R+7.6 · U.S. R+23.2
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +15.1 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+49.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+68.9 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +47.5 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
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.
Marquette · 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 Marquette, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton10Obama110,590 votes · 11 of 11 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Sanders1122,494 votes · 11 of 11 countiesprimary
Biden1129,634 votes · 11 of 11 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.
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+711 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +1,352 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Marquette in Marquette: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+222
2012
−374
2013
−482
2014
−895
2015
−1,121
2016
−1,379
2017
−223
2018
−243
2019
+210
2021
+1,091
2022
+2,171
2023
+1,119
2024
+545
2025
+711
Spanning the entire Upper Peninsula and reaching into northern Wisconsin, the Marquette market covers a vast, sparsely populated stretch where outdoor-economy voters and a mid-sized university town create an unusually mixed rural electorate.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 37.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 68.9 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.7 points.
A population of 216,949, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,069 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Alpena and Binghamton.
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In 2024, Marquette, Michigan voted Republican by 16.7 points (R+16.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 125,694 votes cast, 51,393 went Democratic and 72,396 went Republican.
When did Marquette, Michigan last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Marquette, Michigan voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in Marquette, Michigan?
Marquette, Michigan has a population of 216,949 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Marquette, Michigan?
Median household income in Marquette, Michigan is $61,069 — below the national median of $80,734. The Michigan state median is $72,875.
What is the political history of Marquette, Michigan?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Marquette, Michigan from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
