Monterey-Salinas · 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 Monterey-Salinas, 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+35.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+39.0
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 3.6 points more Democratic than the rolls.
418,941 registered voters · 2024 · up from 413,864 in 2022
Domestic migration in Monterey-Salinas in Monterey-Salinas: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−430
2012
−124
2013
−1,355
2014
−2,110
2015
−1,878
2016
−1,254
2017
−3,313
2018
−4,485
2019
−3,263
2021
−11,890
2022
−3,794
2023
−9,644
2024
−8,353
2025
−4,718
The Monterey-Salinas market spans a striking economic divide — affluent coastal tourism and tech-adjacent Monterey contrasts with the heavily Latino, farmworker-dependent Salinas Valley, producing notably split voting patterns across its ZIP codes.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 47.9 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 49.3 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 8.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 39.0 points.
A population of 769,829, a 36% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,501 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo and Chicago.
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How did Monterey-Salinas, California vote in 2024?
In 2024, Monterey-Salinas, California voted Democratic by 39.0 points (D+39.0), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 308,502 votes cast, 209,237 went Democratic and 88,906 went Republican.
When did Monterey-Salinas, California last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Monterey-Salinas, California voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in Monterey-Salinas, California?
Monterey-Salinas, California has a population of 769,829 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Monterey-Salinas, California?
Median household income in Monterey-Salinas, California is $103,501 — above the national median of $80,734. The California state median is $99,122.
What is the political history of Monterey-Salinas, California?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Monterey-Salinas, California from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
