Fort Myers-Naples · 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 Fort Myers-Naples, 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 · 2024R+28.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+31.2
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 2.9 points.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Fort Myers-Naples
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2017
804,894
218,778
362,576
220,269
3,271
2018
845,767
228,622
379,478
231,433
6,234
2019
849,523
227,526
381,324
232,396
8,277
2020
934,909
250,075
424,940
246,100
13,794
2021
939,915
240,641
428,384
255,017
15,873
2023
916,372
208,609
449,136
237,490
21,137
2024
974,179
211,967
487,885
244,973
29,354
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+14,768 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +350,549 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Fort Myers-Naples in Fort Myers-Naples: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+10,736
2012
+14,897
2013
+19,801
2014
+25,830
2015
+30,839
2016
+32,378
2017
+24,647
2018
+20,615
2019
+26,951
2021
+50,054
2022
+48,224
2023
+19,049
2024
+11,760
2025
+14,768
The Ft. Myers-Naples market anchors one of Florida's fastest-growing corridors, where an influx of retirees and transplants from northern states has steadily shifted registration totals and turnout patterns over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 96.2 points in 1892 and a Republican high of 58.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 8.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 31.2 points.
A population of 1,507,352, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,653 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Salisbury and Tampa-St. Petersburg (Sarasota).
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In 2024, Fort Myers-Naples, Florida voted Republican by 31.2 points (R+31.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 763,805 votes cast, 260,253 went Democratic and 498,583 went Republican.
When did Fort Myers-Naples, Florida last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Fort Myers-Naples, Florida voted Democratic was 1948.
How many people live in Fort Myers-Naples, Florida?
Fort Myers-Naples, Florida has a population of 1,507,352 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Fort Myers-Naples, Florida?
Median household income in Fort Myers-Naples, Florida is $77,653 — below the national median of $80,734. The Florida state median is $74,568.
What is the political history of Fort Myers-Naples, Florida?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Fort Myers-Naples, Florida from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 20 went Republican.
