Tulsa · 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
65.7%
169,341 votes · D+31.6
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 60.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
74.1%
274,654 votes · R+50.5
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 67.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
John Kerry2004
209,291votes
36.9% of the vote · R+26.3
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 198,734 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
392,401votes
66.8% of the vote · R+35.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 390,148 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
+21.0pts D vs U.S.
Place R+4.2 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +13.9 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+53.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.9 · U.S. D+1.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +38.8 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.
Tulsa · 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 Tulsa, 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
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+28.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+35.6
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 6.8 points more Republican than the rolls.
865,924 registered voters · 2026 · up from 23,640 in 2025
Domestic migration in Tulsa in Tulsa: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−95
2012
−85
2013
+2,913
2014
+524
2015
+3,620
2016
+402
2017
−2,633
2018
−3,216
2019
+561
2021
+10,758
2022
+10,450
2023
+9,514
2024
+6,525
2025
+6,205
The Tulsa DMA stretches across northeastern Oklahoma and into Kansas, covering a region where Republicans routinely post margins above 30 points in statewide races, though the city's inner districts have trended more competitive in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 31.6 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 51.9 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 35.6 points.
A population of 1,459,191, a 61% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,276 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers and Sherman-Ada.
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In 2024, Tulsa, Oklahoma voted Republican by 35.6 points (R+35.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 587,202 votes cast, 183,477 went Democratic and 392,401 went Republican.
When did Tulsa, Oklahoma last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Tulsa, Oklahoma voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Tulsa, Oklahoma?
Tulsa, Oklahoma has a population of 1,459,191 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Tulsa, Oklahoma?
Median household income in Tulsa, Oklahoma is $65,276 — below the national median of $80,734. The Oklahoma state median is $65,039.
What is the political history of Tulsa, Oklahoma?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
