Bend, OR · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1920–2024 · 27 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
72.7%
4,278 votes · D+50.6
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 68.8%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
64.3%
5,776 votes · R+29.0
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 62.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
68,108votes
53.5% of the vote · D+10.4
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 65,962 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
55,646votes
44.4% of the vote · D+8.2
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 54,850 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. Roosevelt1936
+26.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+50.6 · U.S. D+24.3
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +19.2 pts
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
+18.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.0 · U.S. R+10.8
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · +17.9 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Bend, OR · which candidate this place backed 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 this place is a single county: Deschutes County, Oregon. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Bend, OR, 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+2.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+10.4
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 7.8 points more Democratic than the rolls.
166,648 registered voters · 2024 · up from 158,110 in 2022
Domestic migration in Bend, OR in Bend, OR: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,458
2012
+1,390
2013
+3,540
2014
+3,698
2015
+4,291
2016
+6,010
2017
+5,815
2018
+4,815
2019
+5,498
2021
+6,012
2022
+960
2023
+1,768
2024
+1,987
2025
+1,646
Bend's rapid in-migration has made Deschutes County a competitive pivot point in statewide races, shifting a once reliably Republican media market toward split-ticket patterns that neither party can take for granted.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 50.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 29.8 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.2 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.4 points.
A population of 206,334, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,758 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Charlottesville and Butte-Bozeman.
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The media markets whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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In 2024, Bend, OR, Oregon voted Democratic by 10.4 points (D+10.4), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 127,375 votes cast, 68,108 went Democratic and 54,850 went Republican.
When did Bend, OR, Oregon last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Bend, OR, Oregon voted Republican was 2016.
How many people live in Bend, OR, Oregon?
Bend, OR, Oregon has a population of 206,334 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bend, OR, Oregon?
Median household income in Bend, OR, Oregon is $92,758 — above the national median of $80,734. The Oregon state median is $83,011.
What is the political history of Bend, OR, Oregon?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bend, OR, Oregon from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
