Yuma-El Centro · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1908–2024 · 30 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
68.5%
12,235 votes · D+40.8
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 64.5%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
64.9%
7,745 votes · R+30.8
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 64.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
66,888votes
52.7% of the vote · D+7.5
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 57,272 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
67,291votes
55.1% of the vote · R+11.8
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 57,381 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
+23.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+40.8 · U.S. D+17.8
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +17.2 pts
Republican
Ronald Reagan1980
+17.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.9 · U.S. R+9.7
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · +16.7 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.
Yuma-El Centro · 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 Yuma-El Centro, 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
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+5.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+11.8
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 5.9 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Yuma-El Centro
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2022 (partial)
86,318
41,418
18,060
21,117
5,723
2024 (partial)
88,694
40,570
20,324
22,031
5,769
2026 (partial)
109,840
28,904
35,318
44,000
1,618
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−1,029 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −22,014 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Yuma-El Centro in Yuma-El Centro: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+2,300
2012
−4,172
2013
−5,163
2014
−2,249
2015
−3,880
2016
−1,984
2017
−809
2018
−1,573
2019
−1,643
2021
−70
2022
−1,850
2023
+484
2024
−376
2025
−1,029
Spanning the Colorado River desert from southwestern Arizona into California's Imperial Valley, this market's electorate is shaped by Latino majorities, year-round farm labor, and one of the nation's busiest land-border crossing corridors.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 40.8 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 31.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 19.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.8 points.
A population of 391,943, a 20% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,488 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Corpus Christi and El Paso (Las Cruces).
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In 2024, Yuma-El Centro, California voted Republican by 11.8 points (R+11.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 122,220 votes cast, 52,906 went Democratic and 67,291 went Republican.
When did Yuma-El Centro, California last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Yuma-El Centro, California voted Democratic was 2020.
How many people live in Yuma-El Centro, California?
Yuma-El Centro, California has a population of 391,943 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Yuma-El Centro, California?
Median household income in Yuma-El Centro, California is $60,488 — below the national median of $80,734. The California state median is $99,122.
What is the political history of Yuma-El Centro, California?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Yuma-El Centro, California from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 13 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
