Billings · 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
William J. Bryan1896
64.1%
5,436 votes · D+28.6
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 61.7%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
66.8%
8,056 votes · R+41.5
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 66.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
55,163votes
41.2% of the vote · R+14.8
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 50,773 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
101,699votes
66.2% of the vote · R+35.4
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 100,982 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
+34.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+28.6 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +6.6 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+36.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.8 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +36.7 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.
Billings · 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 Billings, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama13Clinton540,726 votes · 18 of 18 countiescaucus + primary
○no contest record
Sanders15Clinton324,253 votes · 18 of 18 countiescaucus + primary
Biden1829,656 votes · 18 of 18 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.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+80.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+35.4
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 45 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 Billings
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
22,902
1,262
19,662
1,617
361
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+1,053 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +21,568 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Billings in Billings: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,200
2012
+1,343
2013
+2,226
2014
+885
2015
+554
2016
+898
2017
+1,049
2018
+228
2019
+389
2021
+4,111
2022
+4,348
2023
+1,950
2024
+1,334
2025
+1,053
Billings DMA stretches across southeastern Montana and northern Wyoming, reaching ranching communities where Republican margins routinely exceed 30 points and low population density makes television still the dominant campaign medium.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.6 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 41.5 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 35.4 points.
A population of 300,181, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,218 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Cheyenne-Scottsbluff and Rapid City.
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In 2024, Billings, Montana voted Republican by 35.4 points (R+35.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 153,587 votes cast, 47,335 went Democratic and 101,699 went Republican.
When did Billings, Montana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Billings, Montana voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Billings, Montana?
Billings, Montana has a population of 300,181 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Billings, Montana?
Median household income in Billings, Montana is $73,218 — below the national median of $80,734. The Montana state median is $72,509.
What is the political history of Billings, Montana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Billings, Montana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 27 went Republican.
