2024 presidential election
Mecklenburg County
HarrisD+32.7
2024 precinct map of Mecklenburg CountyPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Mecklenburg County, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin, and gold where an independent or third-party candidate carried the precinct.
How it voted
Share of the 2024 vote
| Kamala Harris ✓Democratic | 65.2% | 376,469 |
|---|---|---|
| Donald TrumpRepublican | 32.5% | 187,777 |
| OtherAll other candidates | 2.3% | 13,281 |
Harris +50Trump +50
195 precincts · 577,527 votes. Hover any precinct for its result.
The precinct map shows the 2024 presidential vote; the timeline scrubs the county’s overall result across 1876–2024.
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
|---|---|
| 1876 | No data |
| 1880 | No data |
| 1884 | No data |
| 1888 | No data |
| 1892 | +30.1% |
| 1896 | +9.0% |
| 1900 | +25.5% |
| 1904 | +60.9% |
| 1908 | +40.7% |
| 1912 | +76.4% |
| 1916 | +56.3% |
| 1920 | +53.6% |
| 1924 | +51.3% |
| 1928 | −10.8% |
| 1932 | +56.6% |
| 1936 | +69.5% |
| 1940 | +60.8% |
| 1944 | +46.7% |
| 1948 | +8.5% |
| 1952 | −14.6% |
| 1956 | −24.0% |
| 1960 | −10.1% |
| 1964 | +3.1% |
| 1968 | −23.5% |
| 1972 | −38.7% |
| 1976 | +1.2% |
| 1980 | −1.0% |
| 1984 | −25.6% |
| 1988 | −19.2% |
| 1992 | −1.1% |
| 1996 | +2.7% |
| 2000 | −2.7% |
| 2004 | +3.6% |
| 2008 | +24.4% |
| 2012 | +22.4% |
| 2016 | +29.4% |
| 2020 | +35.1% |
| 2024 | +32.7% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Democratic | Republican | Other | Margin | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 65.2%Harris376,469 | 32.5%Trump187,777 | 2.3% | 577,527 | ||
| D | 66.7%Biden378,107 | 31.6%Trump179,211 | 1.7%incl. Jorgensen | 567,053 | ||
| D | 62.3%Clinton294,562 | 32.9%Trump155,518 | 4.8%incl. Johnson | 472,857 | ||
| D | 60.7%Obama272,262 | 38.2%Romney171,668 | 1.1% | 448,900 | ||
| D | 61.8%Obama253,958 | 37.4%McCain153,848 | 0.7% | 410,817 | ||
| D | 51.6%Kerry166,828 | 48.0%Bush155,084 | 0.4% | 323,102 | ||
| R | 48.2%Gore126,911 | 51.0%Bush134,068 | 0.8%incl. Nader | 263,036 | ||
| D | 48.6%Clinton103,429 | 45.9%Dole97,719 | 5.5%Perot 10,473 | 212,845 | ||
| R | 42.5%Clinton97,065 | 43.6%Bush99,496 | 13.9%Perot 31,283 | 228,375 | ||
| R | 40.2%Dukakis71,907 | 59.4%Bush106,236 | 0.4% | 178,796 | ||
| R | 37.1%Mondale63,190 | 62.7%Reagan106,754 | 0.2% | 170,337 | ||
| R | 46.8%Carter66,995 | 47.8%Reagan68,384 | 5.4%incl. Anderson | 143,058 | ||
| D | 50.4%Carter63,198 | 49.2%Ford61,715 | 0.4% | 125,399 | ||
| R | 29.8%McGovern33,730 | 68.5%Nixon77,546 | 1.7% | 113,176 | ||
| R | 28.9%Humphrey31,102 | 52.4%Nixon56,325 | 18.7%incl. Wallace | 107,497 | ||
| D | 51.6%Johnson49,582 | 48.4%Goldwater46,589 | 0.0% | 96,171 | ||
| R | 44.9%Kennedy39,362 | 55.1%Nixon48,250 | 0.0% | 87,612 | ||
| R | 38.0%Stevenson27,227 | 62.0%Eisenhower44,469 | 0.0% | 71,696 | ||
| R | 42.7%Stevenson33,044 | 57.3%Eisenhower44,334 | 0.0% | 77,378 | ||
| D | 43.3%Truman14,353 | 34.7%Dewey11,518 | 22.0%incl. Thurmond | 33,185 | ||
| D | 73.3%Roosevelt25,950 | 26.7%Dewey9,434 | 0.0% | 35,384 | ||
| D | 80.4%Roosevelt28,768 | 19.6%Willkie7,013 | 0.0% | 35,781 | ||
| D | 84.7%Roosevelt26,169 | 15.3%Landon4,709 | 0.0% | 30,878 | ||
| D | 77.9%Roosevelt18,167 | 21.3%Hoover4,973 | 0.8% | 23,321 | ||
| R | 44.6%Smith9,690 | 55.4%Hoover12,041 | 0.0% | 21,731 | ||
| D | 73.7%Davis8,443 | 22.5%Coolidge2,572 | 3.8%incl. La Follette | 11,452 | ||
| D | 76.8%Cox11,313 | 23.2%Harding3,421 | 0.0% | 14,734 | ||
| D | 78.1%Wilson4,508 | 21.8%Hughes1,257 | 0.1% | 5,771 | ||
| D | 82.3%Wilson3,967 | 5.9%Taft284 | 11.8%incl. Roosevelt | 4,822 | ||
| D | 70.1%Bryan3,926 | 29.4%Taft1,645 | 0.5% | 5,601 | ||
| D | 79.9%Parker3,142 | 19.0%Roosevelt748 | 1.1% | 3,934 | ||
| D | 62.1%Bryan3,786 | 36.6%McKinley2,234 | 1.3% | 6,098 | ||
| D | 53.6%Bryan4,714 | 44.6%McKinley3,921 | 1.8% | 8,790 | ||
| D | 60.0%Cleveland3,881 | 29.9%Harrison1,933 | 10.2%incl. Weaver | 6,472 | ||
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Demographics
Demographic profile
Demographic Profile
Key indicators compared across containing geographies
| Indicator | Mecklenburg CountyCounty | North CarolinaState | United StatesNation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Race & Ethnicity | |||
| White | 44.9% | 61.8% | 61.0% |
| Black | 30.1% | 20.3% | 12.2% |
| Asian | 6.4% | 3.3% | 6.0% |
| Two or more races | 9.7% | 8.2% | 12.6% |
| Other race | 8.9% | 6.4% | 8.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 16.0% | 11.3% | 19.3% |
| Income & Age | |||
| Median household income | $87,005 | $72,388 | $84,427 |
| Poverty rate | 10.4% | 13.1% | 12.5% |
| Median age | 35.5 | 39.5 | 39.1 |
| Age 18–24 | 9.2% | 9.5% | 9.2% |
| Age 65 and older | 12.0% | 17.2% | 17.2% |
| Education & Language | |||
| Bachelor's degree or higher (25+) | 49.2% | 35.8% | 35.6% |
| Speaks a non-English language at home | 22.3% | 13.5% | 22.3% |
| Spanish | 13.3% | 8.7% | 13.6% |
| Other Indo-European | 2.2% | 1.1% | 2.0% |
| Other Asian & Pacific Island | 1.9% | 0.9% | 1.1% |
| Ancestry | |||
| Largest ancestry | English 9.3% | English 12.7% | German 12.5% |
| 2nd-largest ancestry | German 8.5% | German 9.4% | Mexican 11.3% |
| 3rd-largest ancestry | Irish 7.6% | Irish 8.4% | English 9.5% |
| Religion | |||
| Catholic | 15.5% | 8.9% | 18.6% |
| Evangelical Protestant | 24.9% | 26.5% | 16.5% |
| Unaffiliated or unclaimed | 38.4% | 48.0% | 51.5% |
| Mainline Protestant | 11.1% | 9.1% | 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
English
9.3%
German
8.5%
Irish
7.6%
American
4.7%
Italian
4.1%
Scottish
1.9%
Polish
1.7%
Scotch-Irish
1.6%
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
1.4%
Nigerian
0.4%
Jamaican
0.4%
Ethiopian
0.3%
Haitian
0.2%
Specific origin · ACS B03001
Mexican
5.4%
Honduran
2.4%
Salvadoran
1.5%
Puerto Rican
1.1%
Dominican
0.8%
Colombian
0.8%
Guatemalan
0.7%
Cuban
0.6%
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
Asian Indian
2.5%
Vietnamese
0.9%
Chinese
0.8%
Filipino
0.3%
Korean
0.3%
Burmese
0.3%
Cambodian
0.2%
Nepalese
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: 35.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$87,005
Mecklenburg County ranks in the top 10% of US counties.
Mecklenburg County$87,005
North Carolina$72,388
United States$80,734
Mecklenburg County ranks in the top 10% of US counties by median household income.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
10.4%
Child poverty is below the national average.
Children under 1814.8%
Working age (18–64)9.0%
Seniors (65+)10.3%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
77.7%
speak English only
Spanish13.3%
Other Indo-European2.2%
Other Asian & Pacific Island1.9%
French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)0.9%
Other languages0.9%
Vietnamese0.7%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic0.6%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)0.6%
Arabic0.5%
German or other West Germanic0.3%
Korean0.2%
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)0.2%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Unaffiliated or not counted38.4%
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 Charlotte, Mecklenburg has shifted from a competitive suburban county into one of the state's most lopsided presidential jurisdictions, posting a 32.7-point Democratic margin in 2024 on the back of rapid in-migration and a majority-minority population.
The Democratic margin here reached 76.4 points in 1912. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.7 points.
A population of 1,154,681, a 45% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $87,005 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Guilford County and Montgomery County.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Mecklenburg County, North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina voted Democratic by 32.7 points (D+32.7), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 577,527 votes cast, 376,469 went Democratic and 187,777 went Republican.
When did Mecklenburg County, North Carolina last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Mecklenburg County, North Carolina voted Republican was 2000.
How many people live in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina?
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina has a population of 1,154,681 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina?
Median household income in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina is $87,005 — above the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 23 went Democratic and 11 went Republican.