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Charlotte·North Carolina

Charlotte has voted Republican in twelve straight presidential elections — R+9.0 in 2024.

Fast-growing Sun Belt market where suburban realignment reshapes margins

2008 — 2024·5 elections
NC
2024 presidential election
Charlotte
TrumpR+9.0
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2024 presidential margin by county for Charlotte, NCA map of the constituent counties of Charlotte, NC, each outlined and filled by its 2024 presidential margin from deep red (Republican) through neutral to deep blue (Democratic), seated within the faint outlines of the surrounding states.Watauga County, NC · D+6.0Anson County, NC · R+2.5Gaston County, NC · R+25.0Stanly County, NC · R+50.8Alexander County, NC · R+59.7Burke County, NC · R+41.1Chesterfield County, SC · R+28.1Caldwell County, NC · R+52.5Lincoln County, NC · R+45.6Avery County, NC · R+52.3Rowan County, NC · R+35.8Ashe County, NC · R+44.3Lancaster County, SC · R+24.8Cleveland County, NC · R+34.9Richmond County, NC · R+20.9Iredell County, NC · R+32.5Chester County, SC · R+17.2Catawba County, NC · R+37.9York County, SC · R+19.1Union County, NC · R+25.2Mecklenburg County, NC · D+32.7Cabarrus County, NC · R+7.7
How it voted
Share of the 2024 vote
Donald Trump ✓Republican53.7%972,799
Kamala HarrisDemocratic44.7%810,628
OtherAll other candidates1.6%28,375
D+60
R+60
22 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 timeDemocratic-minus-Republican presidential margin from 1876 to 2024. Most recent: −9.0% in 2024.flipped R · 1980−9.0%DR18762024
Presidential margin over time
YearMargin (D minus R)
1876No data
1880No data
1884No data
1888No data
1892+29.0%
1896+26.9%
1900+19.7%
1904+27.5%
1908+19.5%
1912+54.6%
1916+22.4%
1920+15.8%
1924+21.3%
1928−10.9%
1932+38.6%
1936+47.8%
1940+47.3%
1944+29.3%
1948+9.2%
1952−7.1%
1956−12.1%
1960−4.6%
1964+5.8%
1968−20.1%
1972−42.6%
1976+9.5%
1980−5.4%
1984−32.7%
1988−25.1%
1992−8.0%
1996−9.5%
2000−19.8%
2004−19.7%
2008−6.6%
2012−8.9%
2016−11.1%
2020−7.3%
2024−9.0%
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
YearWonDemocraticRepublicanOtherMarginTotal
R
44.7%Harris810,628
53.7%Trump972,799
1.6%
−9.0%
1,811,802
R
45.6%Biden798,847
52.9%Trump926,602
1.5%incl. Jorgensen
−7.3%
1,751,124
R
42.4%Clinton618,874
53.5%Trump781,077
4.2%incl. Johnson
−11.1%
1,461,297
R
44.9%Obama613,599
53.8%Romney734,898
1.3%
−8.9%
1,366,330
R
46.2%Obama597,699
52.8%McCain683,606
1.0%
−6.6%
1,293,867
R
39.9%Kerry411,847
59.6%Bush615,114
0.5%
−19.7%
1,031,671
R
39.7%Gore343,317
59.4%Bush514,476
0.9%incl. Nader
−19.8%
865,676
R
41.5%Clinton303,967
50.9%Dole373,469
7.6%incl. Perot
−9.5%
733,134
R
38.8%Clinton304,135
46.9%Bush366,981
14.3%incl. Perot
−8.0%
782,934
R
37.3%Dukakis237,330
62.4%Bush397,391
0.3%
−25.1%
636,539
R
33.5%Mondale214,935
66.2%Reagan424,274
0.2%
−32.7%
640,698
R
45.6%Carter251,521
51.0%Reagan281,319
3.4%incl. Anderson
−5.4%
551,388
D
54.5%Carter280,107
45.0%Ford231,467
0.4%
+9.5%
513,854
R
27.9%McGovern127,155
70.5%Nixon321,762
1.6%
−42.6%
456,431
R
26.2%Humphrey125,449
46.3%Nixon221,940
27.6%incl. Wallace
−20.1%
479,703
D
52.9%Johnson229,352
47.1%Goldwater204,199
0.0%
+5.8%
433,555
R
47.7%Kennedy203,504
52.3%Nixon223,314
0.0%
−4.6%
426,818
R
43.5%Stevenson159,541
55.6%Eisenhower203,888
0.9%
−12.1%
366,625
R
46.4%Stevenson179,619
53.6%Eisenhower207,217
0.0%
−7.1%
386,836
D
46.1%Truman100,157
36.9%Dewey80,182
17.0%incl. Thurmond
+9.2%
217,221
D
64.6%Roosevelt142,119
35.3%Dewey77,677
0.1%
+29.3%
220,083
D
73.6%Roosevelt167,582
26.4%Willkie59,999
0.0%
+47.3%
227,583
D
73.9%Roosevelt172,242
26.1%Landon60,860
0.0%
+47.8%
233,200
D
69.0%Roosevelt133,755
30.4%Hoover58,925
0.7%
+38.6%
193,986
R
44.6%Smith73,946
55.4%Hoover92,011
0.0%
−10.9%
165,963
D
59.8%Davis76,483
38.5%Coolidge49,260
1.7%incl. La Follette
+21.3%
127,975
D
57.9%Cox84,519
42.1%Harding61,494
0.0%
+15.8%
146,013
D
61.1%Wilson44,803
38.8%Hughes28,403
0.1%
+22.4%
73,291
D
62.0%Wilson37,231
7.4%Taft4,415
30.7%incl. Roosevelt
+54.6%
60,058
D
59.6%Bryan36,477
40.1%Taft24,551
0.3%
+19.5%
61,205
D
63.1%Parker30,045
35.7%Roosevelt16,966
1.2%
+27.5%
47,589
D
59.1%Bryan33,450
39.4%McKinley22,294
1.5%
+19.7%
56,606
D
63.1%Bryan43,437
36.1%McKinley24,876
0.8%
+26.9%
68,882
D
57.0%Cleveland34,225
27.9%Harrison16,781
15.1%incl. Weaver
+29.0%
60,065
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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.
IndicatorCharlotteMedia marketUnited StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White62.4%61.0%
Black19.7%12.2%
Asian3.9%6.0%
Two or more races8.0%12.6%
Other race5.9%8.2%
Hispanic or Latino11.5%19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income$79,152$84,427
Poverty rate11.8%12.5%
Median age38.939.1
Age 18–248.9%9.2%
Age 65 and older15.4%17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)36.6%35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home14.4%22.3%
Spanish9.0%13.6%
Other Indo-European1.4%2.0%
Other Asian & Pacific Island1.3%1.1%
Ancestry
Largest ancestryEnglish 11.3%German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestryGerman 10.4%Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestryAmerican 9.0%English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic10.6%18.6%
Evangelical Protestant28.6%16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed43.7%51.5%
Mainline Protestant9.8%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
English
11.3%
German
10.4%
American
9.0%
Irish
8.5%
Italian
3.6%
Scottish
2.2%
Scotch-Irish
2.0%
Polish
1.4%
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
0.8%
Haitian
0.2%
Jamaican
0.2%
Specific origin · ACS B03001
Mexican
4.8%
Puerto Rican
1.1%
Honduran
1.1%
Salvadoran
0.8%
Colombian
0.5%
Guatemalan
0.5%
Cuban
0.4%
Dominican
0.4%
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
1.6%
Vietnamese
0.4%
Chinese
0.4%
Hmong
0.3%
Filipino
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: 38.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
0.5%
85+
1.0%
2.0%
75–84
2.6%
4.3%
65–74
5.0%
6.2%
55–64
6.4%
6.6%
45–54
6.8%
6.6%
35–44
6.8%
6.8%
25–34
7.0%
4.5%
18–24
4.4%
8.5%
5–17
8.2%
3.0%
<5
2.8%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$79,152
Charlotte$79,152
North Carolina$72,388
United States$80,734
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
11.8%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1816.2%
Working age (18–64)10.4%
Seniors (65+)10.8%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
85.6%
speak English only
Spanish9.0%
Other Indo-European1.4%
Other Asian & Pacific Island1.3%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic0.4%
French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)0.4%
Other languages0.4%
German or other West Germanic0.3%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)0.3%
Vietnamese0.3%
Arabic0.2%
Korean0.1%
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)0.1%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Evangelical Protestant
28.6%
Catholic
10.6%
Mainline Protestant
9.8%
Black Protestant
3.2%
Muslim
1.4%
Other Christian
1.1%
Latter-day Saints
0.7%
Orthodox Christian
0.3%
Other faiths
0.1%
Hindu
0.1%
Buddhist
0.1%
Jewish
0.1%
Unaffiliated or not counted43.7%
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.

The Charlotte DMA spans the Carolina Piedmont and has added nearly a million residents since 2010, making its fast-growing outer suburbs among the most closely watched bellwether zones in statewide contests for both North and South Carolina.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 54.6 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 42.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 1.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.0 points.

A population of 3,488,246, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,152 describe the market.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Charlotte, North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Charlotte, North Carolina voted Republican by 9.0 points (R+9.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,811,802 votes cast, 810,628 went Democratic and 972,799 went Republican.
What is Charlotte, North Carolina's political typology?
Akashic places Charlotte, North Carolina in the "Diversifying Metro" typology. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the market has voted Democratic 16 times, Republican 18 times, and other 0 times.
When did Charlotte, North Carolina last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Charlotte, North Carolina voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Charlotte, North Carolina?
Charlotte, North Carolina has a population of 3,488,246 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Charlotte, North Carolina?
Median household income in Charlotte, North Carolina is $79,152 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Charlotte, North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 18 went Republican. The market's typology — "Diversifying Metro" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.