Which Gary Neighborhoods Voted Most in the 2024 Election?

Which Gary neighborhood claimed the crown for Gary turnout in 2024? We crunched the numbers precinct by precinct to see who showed up, who stayed home, and who exceeded their 2020 performances. From registered voters to those who cast their ballots on Election Day and turnout percentage, here’s what the data reveals about Gary’s voting performance. 

We condensed the number of neighborhoods analyzed due to overlapping voting precincts and recent redistricting, resulting in several neighborhoods losing precincts while others gained new ones. This approach enabled us to deliver a neighborhood-level breakdown of voting in Gary for the 2024 general election, capturing all Gary voters.

Voter turnout in Gary continues to slide, with around 5,000 fewer residents casting ballots in this year’s presidential election compared to 2020 — a decrease of nearly 5%. This decline, however, appears to be isolated to Democratic voters — a trend that could have significant implications for the city’s and the county’s political landscape.

Despite a decline in voter turnout to 50%, the Miller neighborhood continues to lead Gary in voting propensity. Notably, Miller, which encompasses the Aetna neighborhood, owes much of its high turnout to two precincts, G1-08 and G1-24, which achieved participation rates of 66% and 64%, respectively.

Located along the shores of Lake Michigan, these Miller precincts also distinguished themselves by casting two of the four highest vote totals for Donald Trump within the city.

Despite a 6 percentage point drop in turnout, Tolleston retains the city’s second-highest turnout rate in 2024.

Despite an increase in registered voters, turnout in the West Side neighborhoods experienced a 5 percentage point drop between 2020 and 2024. Trump’s percentage of the total vote rose by more than 3 percentage points.

Midtown precincts experienced the biggest percentage drop in turnout, with an 8 percentage point fall off between 2020 and 2024.

In the city’s largest voting section, registered voters fell by just over 1,000 while turnout dipped 4 percentage points. Trump’s share of the total vote grew by nearly 4 percentage points.

More than 700 fewer people voted in Ambridge-Mann in 2024 than did in 2020. Turnout percentage here ranks as Gary’s second-lowest neighborhood.

One of three neighborhoods with turnout rates of less than 40%, Pulaski has the third-lowest rate in the city after losing more than 400 voters between 2020 and 2024.

Gary’s Black Oak neighborhood, originally annexed from unincorporated land in 1976, contains the city’s highest concentration of white residents. At 53%, Black Oak voted at the city’s highest clip for Donald Trump.

Downtown, which includes the senior high rise on Broadway, reported the lowest turnout rate of all Gary neighborhoods for the second time this year and has performed the lowest in each election since the 2020 general election.