Northeast Census Region — Elections 1876–2024

2024 presidential election

Northeast

HarrisD+9.4

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How it voted

Share of the 2024 vote

Kamala Harris ✓Democratic	53.8%	14,750,382
Donald TrumpRepublican	44.4%	12,184,830
OtherAll other candidates	1.8%	479,932

D+60

R+60

218 counties, each filled by 2024 D-vs-R margin. Hover any county for its result.

presidential history

Presidential margin, 1876–2024

Democratic minus Republican, by election

Presidential margin over time
Year	Margin (D minus R)
1876	+2.4%
1880	−2.0%
1884	+1.0%
1888	+0.2%
1892	−2.1%
1896	−26.3%
1900	−17.1%
1904	−23.5%
1908	−19.3%
1912	+10.7%
1916	−9.0%
1920	−37.8%
1924	−35.0%
1928	−13.3%
1932	+4.0%
1936	+15.9%
1940	+5.0%
1944	+4.0%
1948	−0.6%
1952	−11.0%
1956	−21.7%
1960	+5.6%
1964	+36.8%
1968	+7.2%
1972	−16.1%
1976	+3.4%
1980	−5.9%
1984	−11.2%
1988	−1.4%
1992	+11.3%
1996	+21.7%
2000	+17.1%
2004	+12.2%
2008	+20.0%
2012	+18.5%
2016	+14.1%
2020	+16.9%
2024	+9.4%

DemocraticRepublican

38 presidential elections

Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
Year	Won	Democratic	Republican	Other	Margin	Total
2024	D	53.8%Harris14,750,382	44.4%Trump12,184,830	1.8%	+9.4%	27,415,142
2020	D	57.7%Biden16,178,958	40.8%Trump11,433,579	1.6%incl. Jorgensen	+16.9%	28,050,497
2016	D	54.4%Clinton13,657,327	40.3%Trump10,112,917	5.2%incl. Johnson	+14.1%	25,085,855
2012	D	58.5%Obama13,677,054	40.0%Romney9,344,205	1.5%	+18.5%	23,380,203
2008	D	59.4%Obama14,521,077	39.4%McCain9,635,996	1.3%	+20.0%	24,465,510
2004	D	55.5%Kerry13,006,253	43.3%Bush10,142,996	1.2%	+12.2%	23,429,081
2000	D	56.2%Gore11,805,921	39.1%Bush8,221,060	4.7%incl. Nader	+17.1%	21,018,219
1996	D	55.4%Clinton10,863,779	33.7%Dole6,606,885	10.9%incl. Perot	+21.7%	19,598,389
1992	D	46.1%Clinton9,940,136	34.8%Bush7,507,411	19.1%incl. Perot	+11.3%	21,579,797
1988	R	48.8%Dukakis9,689,324	50.2%Bush9,960,763	1.0%	−1.4%	19,851,102
1984	R	44.2%Mondale9,045,999	55.3%Reagan11,335,999	0.5%	−11.2%	20,482,696
1980	R	41.8%Carter8,018,869	47.6%Reagan9,146,699	10.6%incl. Anderson	−5.9%	19,204,685
1976	D	50.9%Carter9,928,836	47.5%Ford9,271,189	1.6%	+3.4%	19,514,061
1972	R	41.5%McGovern8,278,110	57.6%Nixon11,483,333	0.9%	−16.1%	19,947,469
1968	D	50.2%Humphrey9,657,520	43.0%Nixon8,278,621	6.8%incl. Wallace	+7.2%	19,237,979
1964	D	68.3%Johnson13,394,371	31.5%Goldwater6,174,056	0.3%	+36.8%	19,621,300
1960	D	52.7%Kennedy10,562,147	47.1%Nixon9,436,475	0.3%	+5.6%	20,053,456
1956	R	39.1%Stevenson7,333,308	60.7%Eisenhower11,399,514	0.2%	−21.7%	18,776,606
1952	R	44.2%Stevenson8,304,053	55.1%Eisenhower10,364,828	0.7%	−11.0%	18,800,832
1948	R	47.2%Truman7,457,364	47.8%Dewey7,554,843	5.0%incl. Thurmond	−0.6%	15,801,359
1944	D	51.8%Roosevelt8,192,491	47.8%Dewey7,556,268	0.4%	+4.0%	15,818,668
1940	D	52.2%Roosevelt8,461,711	47.3%Willkie7,654,813	0.5%	+5.0%	16,195,771
1936	D	56.6%Roosevelt8,517,748	40.6%Landon6,117,103	2.8%	+15.9%	15,062,241
1932	D	50.2%Roosevelt6,151,531	46.1%Hoover5,656,792	3.7%	+4.0%	12,258,637
1928	R	42.6%Smith5,143,755	55.9%Hoover6,749,463	1.4%	−13.3%	12,066,673
1924	R	25.8%Davis2,241,856	60.8%Coolidge5,289,293	13.4%incl. La Follette	−35.0%	8,696,070
1920	R	28.0%Cox2,136,982	65.8%Harding5,018,436	6.2%	−37.8%	7,629,074
1916	R	43.5%Wilson2,010,781	52.5%Hughes2,425,659	4.0%	−9.0%	4,621,412
1912	D	37.6%Wilson1,609,414	27.0%Taft1,152,662	35.4%incl. Roosevelt	+10.7%	4,276,466
1908	R	37.5%Bryan1,627,829	56.8%Taft2,463,656	5.7%	−19.3%	4,340,758
1904	R	36.0%Parker1,521,529	59.5%Roosevelt2,516,214	4.5%	−23.5%	4,228,317
1900	R	39.8%Bryan1,604,483	57.0%McKinley2,295,385	3.2%	−17.1%	4,030,062
1896	R	35.1%Bryan1,362,058	61.4%McKinley2,385,174	3.6%	−26.3%	3,885,901
1892	R	46.9%Cleveland1,585,797	49.0%Harrison1,657,833	4.1%incl. Weaver	−2.1%	3,383,193
1888	D	48.7%Cleveland74,919	48.5%Harrison74,583	2.8%	+0.2%	153,735
1884	D	50.5%Cleveland67,180	49.5%Blaine65,889	0.0%	+1.0%	133,070
1880	R	49.0%Hancock64,414	51.0%Garfield67,068	0.0%	−2.0%	131,484
1876	D	51.2%Tilden61,948	48.8%Hayes59,022	0.0%	+2.4%	120,971

Demographics

Demographic profile

Demographic Profile

Key indicators compared across containing geographies

Demographic Profile. Key indicators compared across containing geographies. ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error. Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.
Indicator	NortheastCensus region	United StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White	64.0%	61.0%
Black	11.2%	12.2%
Asian	7.0%	6.0%
Two or more races	9.8%	12.6%
Other race	8.0%	8.2%
Hispanic or Latino	15.8%	19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income	$92,943	$84,427
Poverty rate	11.7%	12.5%
Median age	40.6	39.1
Age 18–24	9.0%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	18.5%	17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	40.4%	35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home	24.3%	22.3%
Spanish	11.5%	13.6%
Other Indo-European	3.8%	2.0%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)	1.9%	1.1%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic	1.4%	0.7%
Ancestry
Largest ancestry	Irish 13.5%	German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestry	Italian 11.5%	Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestry	German 11.0%	English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic	28.7%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	6.0%	16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed	51.5%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	5.5%	5.2%

ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error.

Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.

2024 ACS

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the origins and ancestries reported within it.

Reported ancestry · ACS B04006

Irish

13.5%

Italian

11.5%

German

11.0%

English

7.7%

Polish

4.2%

American

4.0%

French

2.2%

French Canadian

0.9%

Specific origin · ACS B03001

Puerto Rican

4.6%

Dominican

3.1%

Mexican

1.9%

Ecuadorian

1.0%

Colombian

0.8%

Salvadoran

0.6%

Guatemalan

0.5%

Cuban

0.3%

Reported ancestry · ACS B04006

African American identity is recorded by the ACS race question; the ancestry item enumerates specific African and Caribbean ancestries only.

Jamaican

0.9%

Haitian

0.7%

African

0.5%

Guyanese

0.3%

West Indian

0.2%

Nigerian

0.2%

Trinidadian and Tobagonian

0.2%

The ACS does not publish subgroup detail for people reporting two or more races.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and other single-race responses combined.

Detailed group · ACS B02015

Chinese

2.1%

Asian Indian

2.0%

Filipino

0.5%

Korean

0.5%

Vietnamese

0.3%

Pakistani

0.3%

Bangladeshi

0.2%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Race shares: B02001 · B03003. Subgroup detail: B03001 (Hispanic or Latino specific origin), B02015 (Asian groups), B02020 · B02016 (American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and Pacific Islander groups), B04006 (reported ancestry). Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so group shares can total more than 100%. All subgroup rows are shares of total population; ancestry is self-reported and multiple-response, so rows do not sum to the parent group's share.

2024 ACS

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 40.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

1.5%

2.4%

75–84

3.1%

5.0%

65–74

5.7%

6.7%

55–64

7.0%

6.1%

45–54

6.2%

6.4%

35–44

6.4%

6.8%

25–34

6.7%

4.5%

18–24

4.5%

7.7%

5–17

7.4%

2.7%

2.6%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Median household income

Inflation-adjusted dollars

$92,943

Northeast$92,943

United States$95,781

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

11.7%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1815.0%

Working age (18–64)10.6%

Seniors (65+)12.9%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

75.7%

speak English only

Spanish11.5%

Other Indo-European3.8%

Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)1.9%

Russian, Polish, or other Slavic1.4%

French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)1.3%

Other Asian & Pacific Island1.0%

Other languages1.0%

German or other West Germanic0.9%

Arabic0.6%

Korean0.4%

Tagalog (incl. Filipino)0.4%

Vietnamese0.2%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

2020 religion census

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Catholic

28.7%

Evangelical Protestant

6.0%

Mainline Protestant

5.5%

Muslim

2.4%

Jewish

2.0%

Black Protestant

1.2%

Other Christian

0.8%

Orthodox Christian

0.6%

Hindu

0.6%

Latter-day Saints

0.4%

Buddhist

0.3%

Other faiths

0.1%

Unaffiliated or not counted51.5%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. The unaffiliated-or-not-counted share is everyone not claimed as an adherent by any reporting body — uncounted congregations as well as the religiously unaffiliated.

Northeast sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Democratic.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 36.8 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 37.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 7.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.4 points.

A population of 57,414,970, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,943 describe the region.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Northeast, United States vote in 2024?

In 2024, Northeast, United States voted Democratic by 9.4 points (D+9.4), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 27,415,142 votes cast, 14,750,382 went Democratic and 12,184,830 went Republican.

When did Northeast, United States last vote Republican?

The most recent presidential election in which Northeast, United States voted Republican was 1988.

How many people live in Northeast, United States?

Northeast, United States has a population of 57,414,970 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Northeast, United States?

Median household income in Northeast, United States is $92,943 — above the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $95,781.

What is the political history of Northeast, United States?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Northeast, United States from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.

Northeast has voted Democratic in nine straight presidential elections — D+9.4 in 2024.

Demographics

Demographic Profile

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