Amarillo · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1908–2024 · 30 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
83.1%
63,011 votes · D+67.3
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 82.3%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
79.8%
144,216 votes · R+60.0
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 79.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Jimmy Carter1976
74,336votes
45.7% of the vote · R+7.6
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 71,242 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
155,137votes
79.6% of the vote · R+60.3
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 153,432 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
+54.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+29.2 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +48.2 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+63.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+59.8 · U.S. D+3.9
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +62.5 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
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.
Amarillo · 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 Amarillo, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton3134,756 votes · 31 of 34 countiesprimary
Obama18All others73,568 votes · 25 of 34 countiesprimary
Clinton26Sanders812,673 votes · 34 of 34 countiesprimary
Biden30Bloomberg2Sanders215,394 votes · 34 of 34 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.
Where a cell reads All others, no named candidate led — the source’s residual bucket did. That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes. It is a total, not a person, so it carries no candidate colour.
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+32.9
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+60.3
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 27 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 Amarillo
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
58,967
12,203
31,605
14,086
1,073
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−2,904 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −55,083 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Amarillo in Amarillo: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+239
2012
−1,420
2013
−4,922
2014
−4,227
2015
−7,358
2016
−5,222
2017
−5,825
2018
−5,983
2019
−5,467
2021
−1,806
2022
−4,088
2023
−2,324
2024
−3,776
2025
−2,904
The Amarillo media market anchors the Texas Panhandle, a vast stretch of agricultural flatlands where voter registration and turnout patterns have remained among the most consistently one-sided in the state for over two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 67.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 60.3 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 60.3 points.
A population of 543,790, a 51% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,278 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Abilene-Sweetwater and San Angelo.
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In 2024, Amarillo, Texas voted Republican by 60.3 points (R+60.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 194,840 votes cast, 37,612 went Democratic and 155,137 went Republican.
When did Amarillo, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Amarillo, Texas voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Amarillo, Texas?
Amarillo, Texas has a population of 543,790 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Amarillo, Texas?
Median household income in Amarillo, Texas is $65,278 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Amarillo, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Amarillo, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 19 went Republican.
