Syracuse · 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 Syracuse, 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 · 2026D+4.2
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+8.5
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 4.3 points more Democratic than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Syracuse in Syracuse: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−4,587
2012
−5,817
2013
−2,895
2014
−6,936
2015
−7,780
2016
−8,394
2017
−7,560
2018
−4,503
2019
−5,257
2021
−7,210
2022
−2,645
2023
−3,671
2024
−2,600
2025
−3,647
The Syracuse media market spans a swath of central New York where presidential margins have tightened cycle over cycle, blending a mid-size Democratic-leaning urban core with rural and small-city counties that have shifted sharply toward Republicans since 2008.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 49.5 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.5 points.
A population of 915,215, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,114 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Albany-Schenectady-Troy and Providence-New Bedford.
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In 2024, Syracuse, New York voted Democratic by 8.5 points (D+8.5), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 436,330 votes cast, 235,570 went Democratic and 198,410 went Republican.
When did Syracuse, New York last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Syracuse, New York voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Syracuse, New York?
Syracuse, New York has a population of 915,215 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Syracuse, New York?
Median household income in Syracuse, New York is $74,114 — below the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.
What is the political history of Syracuse, New York?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Syracuse, New York from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 24 went Republican.
