Lubbock · 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 Lubbock, 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.
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 That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes.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
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 Lubbock
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
251,328
2018 (partial)
263,785
2020
274,760
2022
277,426
2024
287,831
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+680 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −845 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Lubbock in Lubbock: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+442
2012
−1,038
2013
−285
2014
+215
2015
+373
2016
−46
2017
−638
2018
−1,440
2019
+740
2021
+1,523
2022
−1,744
2023
+100
2024
+273
2025
+680
The Lubbock media market spans the South Plains and caprock country, where Republican margins routinely exceed 40 points and the regional economy ties voting patterns tightly to agriculture and the energy sector.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.9 points in 1916 and a Republican high of 54.2 points in 2004. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 6.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 47.3 points.
A population of 473,739, a 48% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,788 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of San Angelo and Amarillo.
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In 2024, Lubbock, Texas voted Republican by 47.3 points (R+47.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 175,449 votes cast, 45,357 went Democratic and 128,374 went Republican.
When did Lubbock, Texas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Lubbock, Texas voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Lubbock, Texas?
Lubbock, Texas has a population of 473,739 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lubbock, Texas?
Median household income in Lubbock, Texas is $62,788 — below the national median of $80,734. The Texas state median is $78,476.
What is the political history of Lubbock, Texas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Lubbock, Texas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 18 went Republican.
