Fargo-Valley City · 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
65.6%
137,830 votes · D+34.4
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 62.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
75.5%
132,946 votes · R+57.1
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 74.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
148,648votes
49.8% of the vote · D+1.7
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 143,970 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
200,682votes
60.7% of the vote · R+23.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 190,496 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
+16.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+34.4 · U.S. D+17.8
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +8.5 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+36.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+56.0 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1892 · +32.4 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.
Fargo-Valley City · 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 Fargo-Valley City, by party and cycle.
Sanders17Biden13Klobuchar527,660 votes · 35 of 35 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
+424 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +6,408 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Fargo-Valley City in Fargo-Valley City: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−108
2012
+1,658
2013
+4,397
2014
+896
2015
+943
2016
+291
2017
−579
2018
−1,374
2019
−3,234
2021
+2,025
2022
+902
2023
+810
2024
−643
2025
+424
Fargo's growing university and healthcare workforce has nudged the city itself toward competitive margins, while the surrounding Red River Valley counties reliably anchor statewide Republican totals by double digits.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.4 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 57.1 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 3.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.8 points.
A population of 663,744, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,225 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Sioux Falls (Mitchell) and Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (Williston).
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How did Fargo-Valley City, North Dakota vote in 2024?
In 2024, Fargo-Valley City, North Dakota voted Republican by 23.8 points (R+23.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 330,587 votes cast, 121,918 went Democratic and 200,682 went Republican.
When did Fargo-Valley City, North Dakota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Fargo-Valley City, North Dakota voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in Fargo-Valley City, North Dakota?
Fargo-Valley City, North Dakota has a population of 663,744 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Fargo-Valley City, North Dakota?
Median household income in Fargo-Valley City, North Dakota is $73,225 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Dakota state median is $89,062.
What is the political history of Fargo-Valley City, North Dakota?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Fargo-Valley City, North Dakota from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 22 went Republican.
