Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill · 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
74.7%
108,775 votes · D+49.4
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 67.8%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
77.1%
99,987 votes · R+55.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 75.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
120,222votes
67.8% of the vote · D+35.7
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 117,771 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
104,789votes
75.8% of the vote · R+52.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 99,987 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
Adlai Stevenson1952
+33.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.4 · U.S. R+10.8
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · +27.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+57.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+52.8 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +54.9 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.
Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill · 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 Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, by party and cycle.
Sanders8Clinton138,645 votes · 9 of 9 countiesprimary
Biden928,283 votes · 9 of 9 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
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○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.
Where a cell reads All others, no named candidate led — the source’s residual bucket did. That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes. It is a total, not a person, so it carries no candidate colour.
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+14.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+55.8
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 41 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
180,117
49,909
76,612
45,635
7,961
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+272 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −19,147 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill in Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+359
2012
−563
2013
−1,585
2014
−2,449
2015
−2,694
2016
−3,167
2017
−3,872
2018
−2,334
2019
−1,860
2021
−151
2022
−794
2023
−175
2024
−134
2025
+272
Spanning the southern West Virginia coalfields, this market has shifted from a union-Democrat stronghold to one of the state's most reliably Republican regions over the past two decades, with presidential margins often exceeding 40 points.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 49.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 55.8 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 55.8 points.
A population of 305,974, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,735 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Charleston-Huntington and Clarksburg-Weston.
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How did Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia vote in 2024?
In 2024, Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia voted Republican by 55.8 points (R+55.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 129,693 votes cast, 27,677 went Democratic and 99,987 went Republican.
When did Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia?
Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia has a population of 305,974 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia?
Median household income in Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia is $49,735 — below the national median of $80,734. The West Virginia state median is $59,608.
What is the political history of Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
