Reno · 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
72.0%
6,308 votes · D+44.3
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 70.6%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
68.8%
90,698 votes · R+39.9
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 66.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
177,997votes
42.9% of the vote · R+11.7
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 175,783 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
226,629votes
54.7% of the vote · R+11.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 210,053 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
+50.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+44.3 · U.S. R+6.1
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +18.2 pts
Republican
Ronald Reagan1980
+30.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+40.3 · U.S. R+9.7
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1892 · +22.1 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.
Reno · 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 Reno, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama11Clinton37,293 votes · 14 of 14 countiescaucus + primary
Sanders11Clinton36,893 votes · 14 of 14 countiescaucus + primary
Sanders11Buttigieg2Biden136,376 votes · 14 of 14 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+10.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+11.7
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.2 points.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Reno
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2022 (partial)
23,390
6,009
10,733
4,630
2,018
2024 (partial)
23,281
5,830
10,974
4,303
2,174
2026 (partial)
595,178
142,375
205,204
205,998
41,601
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+4,300 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +54,272 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Reno in Reno: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−2,180
2012
−102
2013
−660
2014
+3,090
2015
+3,550
2016
+6,202
2017
+7,895
2018
+10,379
2019
+9,708
2021
+9,669
2022
−467
2023
−309
2024
+3,197
2025
+4,300
The Reno designated market area anchors northern Nevada and has trended more competitive as in-migration from California and other states has diversified its historically Republican-leaning electorate over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.3 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 40.3 points in 1980. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.7 points.
A population of 777,068, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,074 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto and Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo.
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In 2024, Reno, Nevada voted Republican by 11.7 points (R+11.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 414,469 votes cast, 177,997 went Democratic and 226,629 went Republican.
When did Reno, Nevada last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Reno, Nevada voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in Reno, Nevada?
Reno, Nevada has a population of 777,068 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Reno, Nevada?
Median household income in Reno, Nevada is $85,074 — above the national median of $80,734. The Nevada state median is $99,122.
What is the political history of Reno, Nevada?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Reno, Nevada from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
