Waco-Temple-Bryan · 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 Waco-Temple-Bryan, 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
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Waco-Temple-Bryan
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
340,482
2018 (partial)
583,745
2020
635,646
2022
659,496
2024
694,029
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+131 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +37,116 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Waco-Temple-Bryan in Waco-Temple-Bryan: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−2,848
2012
+1,549
2013
−6,272
2014
−3,083
2015
+4,104
2016
−783
2017
+5,786
2018
+4,233
2019
+6,690
2021
+12,799
2022
+8,914
2023
+7,355
2024
−1,459
2025
+131
Spanning McLennan, Bell, and Brazos counties, this market blends heavily evangelical small-city voters with the younger, more transient electorates anchored by Baylor, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, and Texas A&M.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 86.5 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 37.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 7.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.9 points.
A population of 1,144,021, a 51% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,164 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Lubbock and Odessa-Midland.
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In 2024, Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas voted Republican by 30.9 points (R+30.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 421,503 votes cast, 143,050 went Democratic and 273,456 went Republican.
When did Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas?
Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas has a population of 1,144,021 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas?
Median household income in Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas is $66,164 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.
