Los Angeles · 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 Los Angeles, 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 · 2024D+21.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+17.9
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 3.6 points more Republican than the rolls.
10,596,743 registered voters · 2024 · up from 10,382,219 in 2022
Domestic migration in Los Angeles in Los Angeles: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−36,034
2012
−35,346
2013
−49,473
2014
−61,383
2015
−70,112
2016
−83,259
2017
−90,774
2018
−101,607
2019
−115,046
2021
−208,078
2022
−178,434
2023
−167,793
2024
−126,107
2025
−133,076
Los Angeles County's registered voters are majority Latino and Democratic-leaning by wide margins, yet turnout gaps between midterm and presidential cycles routinely shift competitive state legislative races by double digits.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.1 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 57.4 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 10.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.9 points.
A population of 18,506,399, a 28% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,311 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Las Vegas and Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto.
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In 2024, Los Angeles, California voted Democratic by 17.9 points (D+17.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 7,218,057 votes cast, 4,144,361 went Democratic and 2,850,139 went Republican.
When did Los Angeles, California last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Los Angeles, California voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Los Angeles, California?
Los Angeles, California has a population of 18,506,399 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Los Angeles, California?
Median household income in Los Angeles, California is $95,311 — above the national median of $80,734. The California state median is $99,122.
What is the political history of Los Angeles, California?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Los Angeles, California from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 19 went Republican.
