Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers · 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
74.9%
39,820 votes · D+51.1
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · 71.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
74.6%
97,656 votes · R+49.9
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 69.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
120,225votes
33.0% of the vote · R+31.5
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 119,026 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
235,021votes
64.5% of the vote · R+31.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 226,276 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. Bryan1896
+49.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+43.7 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +40.9 pts
Republican
John McCain2008
+38.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+30.8 · U.S. D+7.3
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +37.9 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.
Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers · 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 Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton1170,443 votes · 11 of 11 countiesprimary
Obama6All others522,396 votes · 11 of 11 countiesprimary
Clinton9Sanders252,415 votes · 11 of 11 countiesprimary
Biden10Sanders163,772 votes · 11 of 11 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+37.2
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+31.5
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 5.7 points more Democratic than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
54,803
12,316
32,679
9,390
418
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+10,490 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +97,486 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers in Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+5,021
2012
+2,550
2013
+2,818
2014
+2,508
2015
+5,784
2016
+6,268
2017
+7,823
2018
+5,406
2019
+4,776
2021
+12,759
2022
+12,150
2023
+9,781
2024
+9,352
2025
+10,490
The Fort Smith–Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers media market straddles two states along the Arkansas-Oklahoma border, blending a fast-growing Northwest Arkansas corridor—anchored by Walmart's corporate headquarters—with more rural, traditionally conservative constituencies to the south and west.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.1 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 49.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 1.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 31.5 points.
A population of 931,100, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,263 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
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How did Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas vote in 2024?
In 2024, Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas voted Republican by 31.5 points (R+31.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 364,496 votes cast, 120,225 went Democratic and 235,021 went Republican.
When did Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas voted Democratic was 1992.
How many people live in Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas?
Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas has a population of 931,100 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas?
Median household income in Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas is $72,263 — below the national median of $80,734. The Arkansas state median is $60,773.
What is the political history of Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.