Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY Metro Area — Elections 1876–2024

2024 presidential election

Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY

TrumpR+21.8

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How it voted

Share of the 2024 vote

Donald Trump ✓Republican	60.5%	34,528
Kamala HarrisDemocratic	38.7%	22,085
OtherAll other candidates	0.8%	433

D+60

R+60

A single county, filled by its 2024 D-vs-R margin. Hover it for the full result.

presidential history

Presidential margin, 1876–2024

Democratic minus Republican, by election

Presidential margin over time
Year	Margin (D minus R)
1876	No data
1880	No data
1884	No data
1888	No data
1892	−26.2%
1896	−36.0%
1900	−38.2%
1904	−46.5%
1908	−39.9%
1912	−13.5%
1916	−32.1%
1920	−54.0%
1924	−57.9%
1928	−47.5%
1932	−27.0%
1936	−13.0%
1940	−24.4%
1944	−19.5%
1948	−17.8%
1952	−28.4%
1956	−37.1%
1960	−14.7%
1964	+38.4%
1968	−3.6%
1972	−17.2%
1976	−10.2%
1980	−12.3%
1984	−26.5%
1988	−10.1%
1992	+2.3%
1996	+9.9%
2000	−3.5%
2004	−8.5%
2008	+0.9%
2012	−7.9%
2016	−23.1%
2020	−19.9%
2024	−21.8%

DemocraticRepublican

38 presidential elections

Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
Year	Won	Democratic	Republican	Other	Margin	Total
2024	R	38.7%Harris22,085	60.5%Trump34,528	0.8%	−21.8%	57,046
2020	R	39.0%Biden23,088	58.9%Trump34,853	2.1%incl. Jorgensen	−19.9%	59,196
2016	R	35.2%Clinton19,091	58.3%Trump31,594	6.5%incl. Johnson	−23.1%	54,234
2012	R	45.1%Obama23,812	52.9%Romney27,971	2.0%	−7.9%	52,852
2008	D	49.5%Obama29,129	48.6%McCain28,579	1.9%	+0.9%	58,802
2004	R	44.7%Kerry27,257	53.2%Bush32,434	2.1%	−8.5%	60,944
2000	R	46.0%Gore27,016	49.5%Bush29,064	4.5%incl. Nader	−3.5%	58,722
1996	D	47.7%Clinton26,831	37.8%Dole21,261	14.6%incl. Perot	+9.9%	56,290
1992	D	36.1%Clinton22,645	33.8%Bush21,222	30.1%incl. Perot	+2.3%	62,789
1988	R	44.6%Dukakis25,814	54.7%Bush31,642	0.7%	−10.1%	57,867
1984	R	36.6%Mondale22,986	63.1%Reagan39,597	0.2%	−26.5%	62,724
1980	R	38.9%Carter22,871	51.2%Reagan30,081	9.9%incl. Anderson	−12.3%	58,756
1976	R	44.7%Carter27,447	54.9%Ford33,730	0.4%	−10.2%	61,436
1972	R	41.3%McGovern26,253	58.4%Nixon37,158	0.3%	−17.2%	63,583
1968	R	45.2%Humphrey26,431	48.8%Nixon28,561	6.0%incl. Wallace	−3.6%	58,507
1964	D	69.2%Johnson42,924	30.7%Goldwater19,069	0.1%	+38.4%	62,056
1960	R	42.6%Kennedy28,143	57.3%Nixon37,836	0.1%	−14.7%	66,031
1956	R	31.5%Stevenson20,269	68.5%Eisenhower44,149	0.0%	−37.1%	64,418
1952	R	35.7%Stevenson23,427	64.1%Eisenhower42,043	0.2%	−28.4%	65,620
1948	R	39.7%Truman20,683	57.5%Dewey29,969	2.9%incl. Thurmond	−17.8%	52,144
1944	R	40.0%Roosevelt22,086	59.5%Dewey32,824	0.5%	−19.5%	55,174
1940	R	37.6%Roosevelt21,524	62.0%Willkie35,536	0.4%	−24.4%	57,316
1936	R	42.4%Roosevelt23,283	55.4%Landon30,435	2.2%	−13.0%	54,927
1932	R	33.6%Roosevelt16,914	60.6%Hoover30,479	5.7%	−27.0%	50,275
1928	R	25.1%Smith13,223	72.7%Hoover38,220	2.2%	−47.5%	52,584
1924	R	13.3%Davis5,560	71.3%Coolidge29,757	15.4%incl. La Follette	−57.9%	41,764
1920	R	17.6%Cox6,781	71.6%Harding27,618	10.9%	−54.0%	38,587
1916	R	30.1%Wilson7,153	62.2%Hughes14,782	7.7%	−32.1%	23,770
1912	O	22.7%Wilson4,954	36.2%Taft7,899	41.2%incl. Roosevelt	−13.5%	21,844
1908	R	25.7%Bryan6,158	65.6%Taft15,739	8.7%	−39.9%	23,985
1904	R	23.2%Parker5,295	69.8%Roosevelt15,891	7.0%	−46.5%	22,775
1900	R	29.4%Bryan6,660	67.6%McKinley15,318	3.0%	−38.2%	22,652
1896	R	30.6%Bryan6,581	66.6%McKinley14,325	2.8%	−36.0%	21,507
1892	R	32.2%Cleveland6,397	58.4%Harrison11,595	9.4%incl. Weaver	−26.2%	19,866
1888	—	—	—	—	No data	—
1884	—	—	—	—	No data	—
1880	—	—	—	—	No data	—
1876	—	—	—	—	No data	—

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	Jamestown-Dunkirk, NYMetro area	New YorkState	United StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White	86.2%	55.2%	61.0%
Black	2.6%	14.4%	12.2%
Asian	0.7%	9.1%	6.0%
Two or more races	6.4%	10.3%	12.6%
Other race	4.1%	11.1%	8.2%
Hispanic or Latino	9.6%	19.8%	19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income	$58,351	$85,974	$84,427
Poverty rate	17.4%	14.0%	12.5%
Median age	42.9	39.9	39.1
Age 18–24	9.1%	9.0%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	21.4%	18.0%	17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	25.1%	40.0%	35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home	9.2%	30.9%	22.3%
Spanish	5.3%	14.8%	13.6%
German or other West Germanic	2.3%	1.5%	0.5%
Ancestry
Largest ancestry	German 18.1%	Italian 10.9%	German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestry	English 13.3%	Irish 10.5%	Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestry	Italian 12.3%	German 8.6%	English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic	16.4%	30.8%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	9.1%	5.1%	16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed	62.4%	48.7%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	9.3%	3.8%	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

German

18.1%

English

13.3%

Italian

12.3%

Irish

11.9%

Swedish

9.0%

Polish

8.1%

American

3.9%

French

2.3%

Specific origin · ACS B03001

Puerto Rican

7.1%

Mexican

0.6%

Dominican

0.5%

Salvadoran

0.3%

Venezuelan

0.3%

Cuban

0.2%

Guatemalan

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.

African American identity is recorded by the ACS race question; the ancestry item enumerates specific African and Caribbean ancestries, none of which clears the display floor here.

Below 1% of the population here; subgroup estimates are within the survey's margin of error.

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: 42.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

1.6%

2.8%

75–84

3.3%

6.3%

65–74

6.5%

7.2%

55–64

7.4%

5.9%

45–54

5.9%

5.8%

35–44

5.6%

5.7%

25–34

5.4%

4.6%

18–24

4.5%

7.9%

5–17

7.5%

2.5%

2.6%

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

2024 ACS

Median household income

Inflation-adjusted dollars

$58,351

Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY$58,351

New York$85,974

United States$80,734

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

2024 ACS

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

17.4%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1824.2%

Working age (18–64)16.3%

Seniors (65+)10.1%

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

2024 ACS

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

90.8%

speak English only

Spanish5.3%

German or other West Germanic2.3%

Other Indo-European0.6%

French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)0.2%

Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)0.2%

Russian, Polish, or other Slavic0.1%

Vietnamese0.1%

Other Asian & Pacific Island0.1%

Arabic0.1%

Other languages0.1%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

2020 religion census

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Catholic

16.4%

Mainline Protestant

9.3%

Evangelical Protestant

9.1%

Other Christian

0.8%

Black Protestant

0.5%

Latter-day Saints

0.5%

Muslim

0.5%

Other faiths

0.3%

Orthodox Christian

0.1%

Buddhist

0.1%

Unaffiliated or not counted62.4%

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.

Chautauqua County anchors this small metro along Lake Erie's southern shore, where manufacturing decline has redrawn political loyalties over two decades and countywide margins have swung sharply in presidential cycles.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 38.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 57.9 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 21.8 points.

A population of 125,544, a 86% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,351 describe the metro.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY, New York vote in 2024?

In 2024, Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY, New York voted Republican by 21.8 points (R+21.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 57,046 votes cast, 22,085 went Democratic and 34,528 went Republican.

When did Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY, New York last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY, New York voted Democratic was 2008.

How many people live in Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY, New York?

Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY, New York has a population of 125,544 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY, New York?

Median household income in Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY, New York is $58,351 — below the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.

What is the political history of Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY, New York?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY, New York from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 4 went Democratic and 29 went Republican.

Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY delivered R+21.8 in 2024.

Demographics

Demographic Profile

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