Watertown-Fort Drum, NY Metro Area — Elections 1876–2024

2024 presidential election

Watertown-Fort Drum, NY

TrumpR+23.6

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How it voted

Share of the 2024 vote

Donald Trump ✓Republican	61.7%	26,417
Kamala HarrisDemocratic	38.1%	16,326
OtherAll other candidates	0.2%	100

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	−14.7%
1896	−25.4%
1900	−26.2%
1904	−26.9%
1908	−24.1%
1912	−3.6%
1916	−21.5%
1920	−45.3%
1924	−43.6%
1928	−33.9%
1932	−25.3%
1936	−27.7%
1940	−27.3%
1944	−20.3%
1948	−19.4%
1952	−39.8%
1956	−48.1%
1960	−21.2%
1964	+40.3%
1968	−15.4%
1972	−33.0%
1976	−20.3%
1980	−9.6%
1984	−36.2%
1988	−15.4%
1992	−2.3%
1996	+13.0%
2000	−3.8%
2004	−11.3%
2008	−5.3%
2012	−2.9%
2016	−20.8%
2020	−19.0%
2024	−23.6%

DemocraticRepublican

38 presidential elections

Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
Year	Won	Democratic	Republican	Other	Margin	Total
2024	R	38.1%Harris16,326	61.7%Trump26,417	0.2%	−23.6%	42,843
2020	R	39.5%Biden17,307	58.4%Trump25,629	2.1%incl. Jorgensen	−19.0%	43,855
2016	R	36.1%Clinton13,809	56.9%Trump21,763	7.0%incl. Johnson	−20.8%	38,236
2012	R	47.9%Obama17,099	50.8%Romney18,122	1.4%	−2.9%	35,708
2008	R	46.7%Obama18,166	52.0%McCain20,220	1.3%	−5.3%	38,886
2004	R	43.5%Kerry16,860	54.7%Bush21,231	1.8%	−11.3%	38,800
2000	R	46.1%Gore16,799	49.9%Bush18,192	3.9%incl. Nader	−3.8%	36,423
1996	D	49.2%Clinton16,783	36.2%Dole12,362	14.6%incl. Perot	+13.0%	34,127
1992	R	35.8%Clinton13,380	38.0%Bush14,227	26.2%incl. Perot	−2.3%	37,426
1988	R	42.0%Dukakis14,137	57.4%Bush19,304	0.5%	−15.4%	33,622
1984	R	31.8%Mondale10,960	68.0%Reagan23,445	0.3%	−36.2%	34,496
1980	R	40.1%Carter13,271	49.7%Reagan16,455	10.3%incl. Anderson	−9.6%	33,128
1976	R	39.7%Carter13,503	60.0%Ford20,401	0.4%	−20.3%	34,028
1972	R	33.4%McGovern11,629	66.4%Nixon23,123	0.2%	−33.0%	34,817
1968	R	40.6%Humphrey13,438	56.0%Nixon18,552	3.4%incl. Wallace	−15.4%	33,109
1964	D	70.1%Johnson25,175	29.8%Goldwater10,718	0.1%	+40.3%	35,914
1960	R	39.4%Kennedy15,800	60.6%Nixon24,290	0.1%	−21.2%	40,115
1956	R	25.9%Stevenson9,959	74.1%Eisenhower28,429	0.0%	−48.1%	38,388
1952	R	30.1%Stevenson12,026	69.9%Eisenhower27,932	0.1%	−39.8%	39,983
1948	R	39.5%Truman13,176	59.0%Dewey19,661	1.5%incl. Thurmond	−19.4%	33,351
1944	R	39.8%Roosevelt14,449	60.1%Dewey21,834	0.1%	−20.3%	36,329
1940	R	36.2%Roosevelt14,581	63.5%Willkie25,584	0.2%	−27.3%	40,262
1936	R	35.4%Roosevelt13,975	63.2%Landon24,925	1.4%	−27.7%	39,466
1932	R	36.7%Roosevelt13,478	62.0%Hoover22,760	1.3%	−25.3%	36,724
1928	R	32.5%Smith12,908	66.4%Hoover26,361	1.1%	−33.9%	39,695
1924	R	24.8%Davis7,665	68.4%Coolidge21,159	6.8%incl. La Follette	−43.6%	30,942
1920	R	25.4%Cox7,925	70.7%Harding22,072	3.9%	−45.3%	31,201
1916	R	37.2%Wilson7,089	58.7%Hughes11,197	4.2%	−21.5%	19,081
1912	R	34.4%Wilson6,054	38.0%Taft6,692	27.7%incl. Roosevelt	−3.6%	17,624
1908	R	33.8%Bryan6,694	57.9%Taft11,477	8.3%	−24.1%	19,813
1904	R	33.7%Parker6,696	60.6%Roosevelt12,050	5.8%	−26.9%	19,893
1900	R	34.8%Bryan6,776	61.0%McKinley11,870	4.1%	−26.2%	19,451
1896	R	35.4%Bryan6,644	60.9%McKinley11,411	3.7%	−25.4%	18,744
1892	R	39.6%Cleveland7,181	54.3%Harrison9,856	6.1%incl. Weaver	−14.7%	18,146
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	Watertown-Fort Drum, NYMetro area	New YorkState	United StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White	82.5%	55.2%	61.0%
Black	4.8%	14.4%	12.2%
Asian	1.9%	9.1%	6.0%
Two or more races	7.8%	10.3%	12.6%
Other race	3.0%	11.1%	8.2%
Hispanic or Latino	7.5%	19.8%	19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income	$66,301	$85,974	$84,427
Poverty rate	13.7%	14.0%	12.5%
Median age	33.7	39.9	39.1
Age 18–24	11.6%	9.0%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	15.1%	18.0%	17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	26.5%	40.0%	35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home	8.1%	30.9%	22.3%
Spanish	3.8%	14.8%	13.6%
German or other West Germanic	1.1%	1.5%	0.5%
Ancestry
Largest ancestry	Irish 15.9%	Italian 10.9%	German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestry	German 13.8%	Irish 10.5%	Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestry	English 13.5%	German 8.6%	English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic	17.5%	30.8%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	3.9%	5.1%	16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed	70.4%	48.7%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	5.7%	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

Irish

15.9%

German

13.8%

English

13.5%

Italian

8.2%

American

6.0%

French

5.5%

Polish

3.0%

Scottish

2.3%

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

Specific origin · ACS B03001

Mexican

2.4%

Puerto Rican

2.2%

Dominican

0.5%

Ecuadorian

0.4%

Guatemalan

0.2%

Panamanian

0.2%

Colombian

0.2%

Spaniard

0.2%

Reported ancestry · ACS B04006

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

African

1.0%

Jamaican

0.5%

Tribal grouping · detailed group · ACS B02020 · B02016

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

Maya

0.2%

Detailed group · ACS B02015

Korean

0.4%

Asian Indian

0.3%

Chinese

0.3%

Filipino

0.3%

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: 33.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.5%

85+

1.1%

2.1%

75–84

2.4%

4.3%

65–74

4.7%

5.5%

55–64

5.6%

4.9%

45–54

4.7%

6.4%

35–44

5.9%

9.1%

25–34

7.2%

7.3%

18–24

4.3%

8.6%

5–17

8.1%

3.7%

3.6%

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

2024 ACS

Median household income

Inflation-adjusted dollars

$66,301

Watertown-Fort Drum, NY$66,301

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

13.7%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.8%

Working age (18–64)12.3%

Seniors (65+)8.7%

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

2024 ACS

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

91.9%

speak English only

Spanish3.8%

German or other West Germanic1.1%

Other Indo-European0.6%

Korean0.5%

Other languages0.5%

French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)0.4%

Russian, Polish, or other Slavic0.3%

Tagalog (incl. Filipino)0.3%

Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)0.2%

Other Asian & Pacific Island0.2%

Vietnamese0.1%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

2020 religion census

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Catholic

17.5%

Mainline Protestant

5.7%

Evangelical Protestant

3.9%

Latter-day Saints

1.1%

Muslim

0.6%

Other Christian

0.5%

Black Protestant

0.1%

Other faiths

0.1%

Orthodox Christian

0.1%

Unaffiliated or not counted70.4%

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.

Home to the Army's 10th Mountain Division, Watertown-Fort Drum leans heavily Republican — its R+66.9 margin in 2024 stands out sharply in a state dominated by Democratic pluralities elsewhere.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 40.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 48.1 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.6 points.

A population of 115,040, a 83% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,301 describe the metro.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Watertown-Fort Drum, NY, New York vote in 2024?

In 2024, Watertown-Fort Drum, NY, New York voted Republican by 23.6 points (R+23.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 42,843 votes cast, 16,326 went Democratic and 26,417 went Republican.

When did Watertown-Fort Drum, NY, New York last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Watertown-Fort Drum, NY, New York voted Democratic was 1996.

How many people live in Watertown-Fort Drum, NY, New York?

Watertown-Fort Drum, NY, New York has a population of 115,040 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Watertown-Fort Drum, NY, New York?

Median household income in Watertown-Fort Drum, NY, New York is $66,301 — below the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.

What is the political history of Watertown-Fort Drum, NY, New York?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Watertown-Fort Drum, NY, New York from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 2 went Democratic and 32 went Republican.

Watertown-Fort Drum, NY has voted Republican in seven straight presidential elections — R+23.6 in 2024.

Demographics

Demographic Profile

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