Parkersburg · 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
58.2%
35,040 votes · D+16.4
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 53.1%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
71.4%
51,173 votes · R+44.1
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 70.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
35,040votes
58.2% of the vote · D+16.4
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 28,939 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
52,251votes
70.3% of the vote · R+42.2
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 51,173 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
+15.8pts D vs U.S.
Place R+9.4 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +13.7 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+46.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+44.8 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +46.7 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.
Parkersburg · 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 Parkersburg, by party and cycle.
Sanders2Clinton114,732 votes · 3 of 3 countiesprimary
Biden310,986 votes · 3 of 3 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+44.1
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 19 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 Parkersburg
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
60,066
13,279
28,254
16,744
1,789
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+148 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −2,723 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Parkersburg in Parkersburg: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+31
2012
−192
2013
−47
2014
−92
2015
−15
2016
−774
2017
−464
2018
−832
2019
−542
2021
+79
2022
−23
2023
−149
2024
+149
2025
+148
The Parkersburg-Marietta media market straddles the Ohio River, blending West Virginia's heavily Republican rural precincts with Ohio's more competitive Washington County, making it a useful lens on Appalachian political realignment.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 16.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 44.8 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 1.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 44.1 points.
A population of 149,906, a 94% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,246 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Clarksburg-Weston and Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill.
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In 2024, Parkersburg, West Virginia voted Republican by 44.1 points (R+44.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 71,661 votes cast, 19,573 went Democratic and 51,173 went Republican.
When did Parkersburg, West Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Parkersburg, West Virginia voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Parkersburg, West Virginia?
Parkersburg, West Virginia has a population of 149,906 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Parkersburg, West Virginia?
Median household income in Parkersburg, West Virginia is $60,246 — below the national median of $80,734. The West Virginia state median is $59,608.
What is the political history of Parkersburg, West Virginia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Parkersburg, West Virginia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 5 went Democratic and 29 went Republican.
