Mountain Census Division — Elections 1876–2024

2024 presidential election

Mountain

TrumpR+5.9

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How it voted

Share of the 2024 vote

Donald Trump ✓Republican	51.8%	6,355,856
Kamala HarrisDemocratic	45.9%	5,633,934
OtherAll other candidates	2.3%	276,684

D+60

R+60

281 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	No data
1880	−5.2%
1884	−12.6%
1888	−14.4%
1892	−31.9%
1896	+63.1%
1900	+8.5%
1904	−22.9%
1908	−6.7%
1912	+10.9%
1916	+19.0%
1920	−22.8%
1924	−24.1%
1928	−22.3%
1932	+20.0%
1936	+31.5%
1940	+11.1%
1944	+5.1%
1948	+7.4%
1952	−20.4%
1956	−20.5%
1960	−7.2%
1964	+13.1%
1968	−14.9%
1972	−30.7%
1976	−14.6%
1980	−31.9%
1984	−33.5%
1988	−16.8%
1992	−1.8%
1996	−3.8%
2000	−15.1%
2004	−14.8%
2008	−3.0%
2012	−8.7%
2016	−5.1%
2020	−1.7%
2024	−5.9%

DemocraticRepublican

38 presidential elections

Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
Year	Won	Democratic	Republican	Other	Margin	Total
2024	R	45.9%Harris5,633,934	51.8%Trump6,355,856	2.3%	−5.9%	12,266,474
2020	R	47.8%Biden5,846,744	49.5%Trump6,054,092	2.7%incl. Jorgensen	−1.7%	12,237,134
2016	R	42.0%Clinton4,158,654	47.1%Trump4,664,555	10.9%incl. Johnson	−5.1%	9,900,266
2012	R	44.4%Obama4,030,767	53.0%Romney4,818,653	2.6%	−8.7%	9,083,760
2008	R	47.6%Obama4,208,578	50.6%McCain4,471,241	1.8%	−3.0%	8,841,761
2004	R	41.9%Kerry3,330,164	56.7%Bush4,507,839	1.4%	−14.8%	7,952,482
2000	R	39.6%Gore2,529,626	54.7%Bush3,493,547	5.7%incl. Nader	−15.1%	6,384,765
1996	R	42.6%Clinton2,434,841	46.4%Dole2,649,462	11.0%incl. Perot	−3.8%	5,711,456
1992	R	36.3%Clinton2,166,605	38.1%Bush2,272,419	25.6%incl. Perot	−1.8%	5,969,880
1988	R	40.8%Dukakis2,043,381	57.6%Bush2,886,701	1.7%	−16.8%	5,013,822
1984	R	32.6%Mondale1,546,244	66.1%Reagan3,131,423	1.2%	−33.5%	4,736,437
1980	R	28.8%Carter1,251,225	60.7%Reagan2,635,648	10.5%incl. Anderson	−31.9%	4,344,800
1976	R	41.2%Carter1,569,739	55.8%Ford2,124,180	3.0%	−14.6%	3,809,527
1972	R	32.3%McGovern1,107,285	63.0%Nixon2,158,824	4.7%	−30.7%	3,427,115
1968	R	38.1%Humphrey1,101,595	53.0%Nixon1,532,805	9.0%incl. Wallace	−14.9%	2,894,046
1964	D	56.4%Johnson1,600,351	43.3%Goldwater1,227,491	0.3%	+13.1%	2,835,627
1960	R	46.3%Kennedy1,224,267	53.5%Nixon1,415,355	0.2%	−7.2%	2,645,747
1956	R	39.6%Stevenson913,639	60.1%Eisenhower1,386,422	0.3%	−20.5%	2,306,002
1952	R	39.6%Stevenson875,973	60.0%Eisenhower1,327,836	0.3%	−20.4%	2,211,546
1948	D	52.7%Truman927,240	45.4%Dewey797,604	1.9%incl. Thurmond	+7.4%	1,758,307
1944	D	52.4%Roosevelt845,731	47.3%Dewey763,429	0.3%	+5.1%	1,614,467
1940	D	55.3%Roosevelt983,569	44.2%Willkie786,066	0.5%	+11.1%	1,778,575
1936	D	64.6%Roosevelt1,017,950	33.1%Landon521,498	2.3%	+31.5%	1,576,011
1932	D	58.4%Roosevelt861,871	38.4%Hoover566,485	3.2%	+20.0%	1,475,627
1928	R	38.4%Smith475,757	60.7%Hoover752,428	0.9%	−22.3%	1,239,077
1924	R	25.7%Davis286,160	49.8%Coolidge554,877	24.6%incl. La Follette	−24.1%	1,115,313
1920	R	36.7%Cox369,020	59.5%Harding598,428	3.9%	−22.8%	1,006,388
1916	D	57.0%Wilson546,857	37.9%Hughes364,063	5.1%	+19.0%	959,668
1912	D	38.1%Wilson266,730	27.2%Taft190,318	34.7%incl. Roosevelt	+10.9%	700,354
1908	R	43.4%Bryan260,878	50.1%Taft301,246	6.4%	−6.7%	600,709
1904	R	35.5%Parker186,683	58.5%Roosevelt307,201	6.0%	−22.9%	525,209
1900	D	53.3%Bryan250,782	44.8%McKinley210,702	1.9%	+8.5%	470,624
1896	D	81.2%Bryan308,327	18.1%McKinley68,698	0.7%	+63.1%	379,834
1892	O	9.9%Cleveland18,297	41.7%Harrison77,299	48.4%incl. Weaver	−31.9%	185,161
1888	R	40.8%Cleveland37,566	55.2%Harrison50,784	4.0%	−14.4%	92,014
1884	R	41.7%Cleveland27,723	54.2%Blaine36,084	4.1%	−12.6%	66,519
1880	R	46.0%Hancock24,647	51.3%Garfield27,450	2.7%	−5.2%	53,546
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	MountainCensus division	United StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White	65.6%	61.0%
Black	3.8%	12.2%
Asian	3.5%	6.0%
Two or more races	15.9%	12.6%
Other race	11.2%	8.2%
Hispanic or Latino	25.5%	19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income	$84,529	$84,427
Poverty rate	11.5%	12.5%
Median age	38	39.1
Age 18–24	9.5%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	16.9%	17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	35.8%	35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home	20.7%	22.3%
Spanish	14.9%	13.6%
Other languages	1.3%	0.8%
Ancestry
Largest ancestry	Mexican 19.3%	German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestry	English 13.8%	Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestry	German 13.7%	English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic	17.6%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	9.7%	16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed	53.7%	51.5%
Latter-day Saints	13.8%	2.0%

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

13.8%

German

13.7%

Irish

9.1%

American

4.0%

Italian

3.9%

Scottish

2.3%

French

1.4%

Polish

1.3%

Specific origin · ACS B03001

Mexican

19.3%

Spanish

0.9%

Spaniard

0.8%

Puerto Rican

0.6%

Salvadoran

0.4%

Cuban

0.3%

Guatemalan

0.3%

Colombian

0.2%

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

Tribal grouping · detailed group · ACS B02020 · B02016

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

Navajo

1.1%

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

0.3%

Detailed group · ACS B02015

Filipino

0.9%

Chinese

0.6%

Asian Indian

0.5%

Vietnamese

0.3%

Korean

0.2%

Japanese

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: 38.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.7%

85+

1.0%

2.4%

75–84

2.7%

4.8%

65–74

5.3%

5.8%

55–64

5.9%

45–54

5.8%

6.9%

35–44

6.5%

7.4%

25–34

6.9%

4.9%

18–24

4.6%

8.7%

5–17

8.2%

2.9%

2.7%

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

2024 ACS

Median household income

Inflation-adjusted dollars

$84,529

Mountain$84,529

United States$79,964

United States$80,734

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

2024 ACS

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

11.5%

Child poverty is below the national average.

Children under 1814.1%

Working age (18–64)10.8%

Seniors (65+)10.4%

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

2024 ACS

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

79.3%

speak English only

Spanish14.9%

Other languages1.3%

Other Indo-European0.9%

Other Asian & Pacific Island0.7%

Tagalog (incl. Filipino)0.6%

Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)0.5%

German or other West Germanic0.4%

Russian, Polish, or other Slavic0.4%

French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)0.3%

Vietnamese0.3%

Korean0.2%

Arabic0.2%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

2020 religion census

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Catholic

17.6%

Latter-day Saints

13.8%

Evangelical Protestant

9.7%

Mainline Protestant

2.0%

Other Christian

1.0%

Muslim

0.7%

Buddhist

0.4%

Black Protestant

0.3%

Hindu

0.3%

Orthodox Christian

0.2%

Jewish

0.2%

Other faiths

0.1%

Unaffiliated or not counted53.7%

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.

Mountain sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Republican.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 63.1 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 33.5 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the division moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.9 points.

A population of 25,571,750, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,529 describe the division.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Mountain, United States vote in 2024?

In 2024, Mountain, United States voted Republican by 5.9 points (R+5.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 12,266,474 votes cast, 5,633,934 went Democratic and 6,355,856 went Republican.

When did Mountain, United States last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Mountain, United States voted Democratic was 1964.

How many people live in Mountain, United States?

Mountain, United States has a population of 25,571,750 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

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

Median household income in Mountain, United States is $84,529 — above the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $79,964.

What is the political history of Mountain, United States?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Mountain, United States from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.

Mountain has voted Republican in fifteen straight presidential elections — R+5.9 in 2024.

Demographics

Demographic Profile

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