Elmira (Corning) · 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
60.6%
62,707 votes · D+21.3
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 43.2%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
76.4%
83,794 votes · R+52.7
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 72.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
62,707votes
60.6% of the vote · D+21.3
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 46,359 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
83,794votes
76.4% of the vote · R+52.7
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 79,118 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
−1.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+21.3 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · −8.7 pts
Republican
Alf Landon1936
+48.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+23.8 · U.S. D+24.3
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +45.1 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.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Elmira (Corning) · 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 Elmira (Corning), by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton416,049 votes · 4 of 4 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Sanders414,433 votes · 4 of 4 countiesprimary
Biden412,147 votes · 4 of 4 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.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+24.9
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+29.7
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 4.8 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Elmira (Corning) in Elmira (Corning): net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+273
2012
−79
2013
−1,707
2014
−2,387
2015
−1,891
2016
−2,225
2017
−1,959
2018
−1,162
2019
−964
2021
−91
2022
−1,765
2023
−417
2024
−200
2025
−119
The Elmira-Corning media market spans the hilly Southern Tier of New York, where post-industrial communities and a shrinking manufacturing base have driven some of the state's sharpest partisan swings over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 21.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 52.7 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 29.7 points.
A population of 233,242, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,083 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Johnstown-Altoona-State College and Clarksburg-Weston.
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In 2024, Elmira (Corning), New York voted Republican by 29.7 points (R+29.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 113,977 votes cast, 39,821 went Democratic and 73,627 went Republican.
When did Elmira (Corning), New York last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Elmira (Corning), New York voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Elmira (Corning), New York?
Elmira (Corning), New York has a population of 233,242 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Elmira (Corning), New York?
Median household income in Elmira (Corning), New York is $65,083 — below the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.
What is the political history of Elmira (Corning), New York?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Elmira (Corning), New York from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 2 went Democratic and 32 went Republican.
