Great Falls · 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 Great Falls, 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.
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
Voter registration in Great Falls
Year
Total registered
2016
106,792
2018
102,961
2020
104,738
2022
102,537
2024
107,284
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+551 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −5,811 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Great Falls in Great Falls: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−356
2012
−709
2013
−44
2014
−1,099
2015
−1,452
2016
−1,172
2017
−700
2018
−685
2019
−1,358
2021
+598
2022
+737
2023
+65
2024
−187
2025
+551
The Great Falls media market stretches across north-central Montana's wheat belt and Missouri River corridor, a region where commodity prices and public-land policy reliably outweigh urban concerns in shaping voter priorities.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 52.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 31.5 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 3.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.7 points.
A population of 172,152, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,811 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Billings and Terre Haute.
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In 2024, Great Falls, Montana voted Republican by 27.7 points (R+27.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 79,205 votes cast, 27,321 went Democratic and 49,256 went Republican.
When did Great Falls, Montana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Great Falls, Montana voted Democratic was 1992.
How many people live in Great Falls, Montana?
Great Falls, Montana has a population of 172,152 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Great Falls, Montana?
Median household income in Great Falls, Montana is $62,811 — below the national median of $80,734. The Montana state median is $72,509.
What is the political history of Great Falls, Montana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Great Falls, Montana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
