Salisbury · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles · 30 with a vote-share denominator · 33 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
57.5%
32,464 votes · D+15.4
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 55.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
68.4%
51,864 votes · R+37.9
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 67.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
109,788votes
43.2% of the vote · R+11.8
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 102,394 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
139,917votes
55.0% of the vote · R+11.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 127,248 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
William J. Bryan1908
+65.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+56.2 · U.S. R+9.6
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +26.4 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+21.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+19.0 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +17.6 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.
Salisbury · 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 Salisbury, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama3Clinton242,937 votes · 5 of 5 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Clinton537,146 votes · 5 of 5 countiesprimary
Biden539,777 votes · 5 of 5 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+5.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+11.8
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 6.8 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Salisbury in Salisbury: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+2,266
2012
+1,694
2013
+2,580
2014
+3,373
2015
+4,265
2016
+4,623
2017
+5,152
2018
+5,911
2019
+6,184
2021
+12,352
2022
+9,500
2023
+8,085
2024
+6,890
2025
+7,253
The Salisbury market covers Maryland's lower Eastern Shore — Somerset, Dorchester, Wicomico, and Worcester counties — plus Sussex County, Delaware. Once narrowly Republican (R+0.4 in 1976), it has voted Republican by double digits in each election from 2004 through 2024 (R+11.9 in 2024). Its median age was 47 in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 56.2 points in 1908 and a Republican high of 37.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.8 points.
A population of 471,816, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,114 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Wilmington and Fort Myers-Naples.
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In 2024, Salisbury, Maryland voted Republican by 11.8 points (R+11.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 254,341 votes cast, 109,788 went Democratic and 139,917 went Republican.
When did Salisbury, Maryland last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Salisbury, Maryland voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Salisbury, Maryland?
Salisbury, Maryland has a population of 471,816 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Salisbury, Maryland?
Median household income in Salisbury, Maryland is $78,114 — below the national median of $80,734. The Maryland state median is $103,678.
What is the political history of Salisbury, Maryland?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Salisbury, Maryland from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
