Charleston-Huntington · 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
64.9%
308,574 votes · D+29.8
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 57.8%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
72.9%
336,495 votes · R+47.4
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 70.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
308,574votes
64.9% of the vote · D+29.8
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 274,751 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
346,313votes
70.7% of the vote · R+42.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 336,495 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
John W. Davis1924
+16.8pts D vs U.S.
Place R+8.4 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +14.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+47.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+42.9 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +45.9 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.
Charleston-Huntington · 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 Charleston-Huntington, by party and cycle.
Sanders26Clinton6139,847 votes · 32 of 32 countiesprimary
Biden32102,284 votes · 32 of 32 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
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○no contest record
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○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+10.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+47.4
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 37 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 Charleston-Huntington
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
382,256
118,148
156,542
88,320
19,246
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+958 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −64,183 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Charleston-Huntington in Charleston-Huntington: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−2,108
2012
−3,759
2013
−4,947
2014
−6,951
2015
−8,028
2016
−8,740
2017
−9,718
2018
−7,102
2019
−7,188
2021
−3,633
2022
−2,295
2023
−497
2024
−175
2025
+958
The Charleston-Huntington market spans a swath of southern West Virginia that shifted sharply toward Republicans over the past decade, with presidential margins now running 40-plus points in many counties despite a historically strong union-labor tradition.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 47.4 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 4.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 47.4 points.
A population of 1,078,564, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,988 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill and Clarksburg-Weston.
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How did Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia vote in 2024?
In 2024, Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia voted Republican by 47.4 points (R+47.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 461,359 votes cast, 118,040 went Democratic and 336,495 went Republican.
When did Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia?
Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia has a population of 1,078,564 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia?
Median household income in Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia is $54,988 — below the national median of $80,734. The West Virginia state median is $59,608.
What is the political history of Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 13 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
