Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston) · 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
71.1%
105,923 votes · D+45.9
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 60.9%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
77.6%
20,722 votes · R+59.2
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 76.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
105,923votes
71.1% of the vote · D+45.9
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 97,246 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
149,528votes
74.7% of the vote · R+51.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 146,554 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
+28.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+45.9 · U.S. D+17.8
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +12.0 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+61.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+60.3 · U.S. D+1.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +54.0 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.
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.
Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston) · 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 Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston), by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton4Obama45,067 votes · 8 of 40 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Sanders32Clinton82,365 votes · 40 of 40 countiescaucus + primary
Sanders31Biden98,519 votes · 40 of 40 countiescaucus + primary
○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.
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.
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+362 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +19,827 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston) in Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston): net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+6,980
2012
+9,334
2013
+11,615
2014
+8,673
2015
+8,730
2016
−7,545
2017
−7,128
2018
−2,117
2019
+703
2021
−6,062
2022
−3,597
2023
−787
2024
+666
2025
+362
Spanning the Bakken formation's western edge, this market blends legacy ranching communities with a boom-bust energy workforce that has repeatedly shifted population counts and precinct-level turnout across a half-dozen counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 45.9 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 60.3 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 51.8 points.
A population of 426,566, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,756 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Sioux City and Sioux Falls (Mitchell).
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How did Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston), North Dakota vote in 2024?
In 2024, Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston), North Dakota voted Republican by 51.8 points (R+51.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 200,217 votes cast, 45,891 went Democratic and 149,528 went Republican.
When did Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston), North Dakota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston), North Dakota voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston), North Dakota?
Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston), North Dakota has a population of 426,566 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston), North Dakota?
Median household income in Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston), North Dakota is $79,756 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Dakota state median is $72,509.
What is the political history of Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston), North Dakota?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston), North Dakota from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 4 went Democratic and 28 went Republican.
