Chico-Redding · 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 Chico-Redding, 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 · 2024R+17.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+22.8
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 5.3 points more Republican than the rolls.
298,967 registered voters · 2024 · up from 298,375 in 2022
Domestic migration in Chico-Redding in Chico-Redding: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−903
2012
−122
2013
+97
2014
+925
2015
+90
2016
+1,277
2017
+3,446
2018
+2,038
2019
−9,558
2021
−2,904
2022
+125
2023
−563
2024
+1,307
2025
+830
Stretching from Chico's college-town precincts north through Redding's Shasta County strongholds, this market spans a sharp urban-rural political gradient that consistently produces wider Republican margins than the California median.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 47.2 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 35.0 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 4.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 22.8 points.
A population of 507,486, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,425 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Medford-Klamath Falls and Cheyenne-Scottsbluff.
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In 2024, Chico-Redding, California voted Republican by 22.8 points (R+22.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 230,058 votes cast, 85,490 went Democratic and 137,988 went Republican.
When did Chico-Redding, California last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Chico-Redding, California voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Chico-Redding, California?
Chico-Redding, California has a population of 507,486 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Chico-Redding, California?
Median household income in Chico-Redding, California is $68,425 — below the national median of $80,734. The California state median is $99,122.
What is the political history of Chico-Redding, California?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Chico-Redding, California from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 22 went Republican.
