Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupWheatland CountyMontanaUnited States
American25.0%5.4%5.3%
German20.2%22.9%12.5%
Irish16.5%13.5%9.4%
Norwegian8.3%7.5%—
English7.5%13.1%9.5%
Scottish7.2%2.6%1.3%
Italian3.8%3.2%4.8%
Dutch2.9%——
Mexican2.5%2.9%11.3%
Ethiopian1.0%——
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Wheatland County
Montana
United States
Median age
46.2
40.8
39.1
Age 18–24
6.8%
9.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
28.9%
20.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Wheatland County
Montana
United States
Median household income
$49,489
$72,509
$84,427
Poverty rate
23.0%
11.5%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
23.2%
35.3%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Wheatland County
Montana
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
3.9%
4.2%
22.3%
German or other West Germanic
2.9%
0.8%
0.5%
Other languages
1.0%
0.7%
0.8%
Religious landscape
Measure
Wheatland County
Montana
United States
Catholic
16.9%
10.3%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
34.2%
13.6%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
31.5%
65.3%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
7.3%
4.7%
5.2%
Latter-day Saints
10.1%
4.7%
2.0%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Wheatland County, Montana
Precinct data
Results by precinct
5 precincts · 1,086 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Wheatland County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -PRECINCT 2PRECINCT 2
103
329
19
451
22.8%
72.9%
R+50.1
Precinct -PRECINCT 9PRECINCT 9
44
195
9
248
17.7%
78.6%
R+60.9
Precinct -PRECINCT 1PRECINCT 1
14
118
2
134
10.4%
88.1%
R+77.6
Precinct -PRECINCT 4PRECINCT 4
30
98
2
130
23.1%
75.4%
R+52.3
Precinct -PRECINCT 3PRECINCT 3
18
103
2
123
14.6%
83.7%
R+69.1
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1920–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1920
−40.2%
1924
−30.7%
1928
−37.9%
1932
+9.2%
1936
+26.2%
1940
+9.3%
1944
−2.2%
1948
−3.1%
1952
−28.3%
1956
−23.4%
1960
−4.5%
1964
+15.1%
1968
−11.4%
1972
−23.8%
1976
−16.7%
1980
−29.3%
1984
−29.5%
1988
−19.8%
1992
−8.2%
1996
−15.8%
2000
−46.5%
2004
−46.6%
2008
−37.5%
2012
−42.4%
2016
−55.3%
2020
−56.0%
2024
−58.4%
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
19.2%Harris209
77.6%Trump843
2.2%Kennedy24 +2
R+58.4
R+2.4
R+56.9
1,086
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican77.6%843
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic19.2%209
Robert F Kennedy Jr.Independent2.2%24
Jill SteinIndependent0.6%6
Chase OliverLibertarian0.4%4
R
21.1%Biden225
77.1%Trump823
1.9%Jorgensen20
R+56.0
R+0.7
R+60.4
1,068
R
18.9%Clinton179
74.2%Trump702
4.5%Johnson43
R+55.3
R+12.8
R+57.4
946
R
27.4%Obama272
69.9%Romney693
2.7%GRAY27
R+42.4
R+4.9
R+46.3
992
R
29.5%Obama289
67.0%McCain657
3.6%
R+37.5
D+9.1
R+44.8
981
R
25.5%Kerry250
72.1%Bush706
2.3%
R+46.6
±0.0
R+44.1
979
R
24.3%Gore243
70.9%Bush708
2.1%Nader21
R+46.5
R+30.7
R+47.1
999
R
35.9%Clinton391
51.7%Dole563
11.7%Perot127
R+15.8
R+7.6
R+24.3
1,088
R
33.4%Clinton384
41.6%Bush478
24.7%Perot284
R+8.2
D+11.6
R+13.7
1,150
R
39.2%Dukakis443
59.0%Bush667
1.8%
R+19.8
D+9.7
R+12.1
1,130
R
34.7%Mondale407
64.2%Reagan753
1.1%
R+29.5
R+0.1
R+11.3
1,173
R
31.0%Carter381
60.3%Reagan742
8.7%
R+29.3
R+12.7
R+19.6
1,230
R
40.5%Carter535
57.2%Ford755
2.3%
R+16.7
D+7.2
R+18.7
1,320
R
33.6%McGovern445
57.4%Nixon761
9.0%
R+23.8
R+12.4
R+0.7
1,326
R
40.4%Humphrey525
51.8%Nixon673
7.8%
R+11.4
R+26.5
R+10.7
1,300
D
57.5%Johnson790
42.5%Goldwater583
0.0%
D+15.1
D+19.6
R+7.5
1,373
R
47.7%Kennedy724
52.2%Nixon793
0.1%
R+4.5
D+18.9
R+4.7
1,518
R
38.3%Stevenson578
61.7%Eisenhower932
0.0%
R+23.4
D+4.8
R+8.0
1,510
R
35.6%Stevenson572
63.8%Eisenhower1,026
0.6%
R+28.3
R+25.2
R+17.5
1,607
R
47.8%Truman733
50.9%Dewey780
1.3%
R+3.1
R+0.8
R+7.5
1,533
R
48.4%Roosevelt733
50.6%Dewey767
1.1%
R+2.2
R+11.5
R+9.7
1,516
D
54.4%Roosevelt948
45.1%Willkie786
0.5%
D+9.3
R+16.9
R+0.6
1,742
D
62.5%Roosevelt1,037
36.3%Landon602
1.2%
D+26.2
D+17.1
D+2.0
1,659
D
54.2%Roosevelt996
45.1%Hoover828
0.7%
D+9.2
D+47.1
R+8.6
1,836
R
30.9%Smith542
68.8%Hoover1,207
0.3%
R+37.9
R+7.2
R+20.4
1,754
R
13.5%Davis221
44.2%Coolidge723
42.3%La Follette691
R+30.7
D+9.5
R+5.5
1,635
R
28.6%Cox520
68.8%Harding1,250
2.6%
R+40.2
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R+14.0
1,817
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Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
R
25.6%278
72.9%792
1,086
2020
R
25.5%270
74.5%789
1,059
2018
R
33.8%315
62.8%586
933
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Wheatland County, MT
Year
Total registered
2016
1,333
2018
1,345
2020
1,252
2022
1,256
2024
1,445
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+39 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −48 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $31,314 in average income, against $61,326 for residents who stayed — 49% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Migration is one input to a place’s political change, not its cause — a shift can also come from residents changing their minds, generational turnover, or turnout. These figures describe the places people moved between; they do not measure how any mover voted.
Domestic migration in Wheatland County, MT in Wheatland County, MT: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−29
2012
−40
2013
+29
2014
−43
2015
0
2016
+18
2017
+20
2018
+20
2019
−61
2021
−19
2022
+6
2023
+23
2024
−11
2025
+39
With fewer than 2,300 residents spread across a high-plains wheat-farming landscape, Wheatland County has delivered some of the widest Republican presidential margins in Montana for over a decade, reflecting a pattern common to the state's most sparsely populated agricultural counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 26.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 58.4 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 58.4 points.
A population of 2,056, a 94% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,489 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Garfield County and Lewis County.
Akashic
Political twins — counties
The counties whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Wheatland County, Montana voted Republican by 58.4 points (R+58.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,086 votes cast, 209 went Democratic and 843 went Republican.
When did Wheatland County, Montana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Wheatland County, Montana voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Wheatland County, Montana?
Wheatland County, Montana has a population of 2,056 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Wheatland County, Montana?
Median household income in Wheatland County, Montana is $49,489 — below the national median of $80,734. The Montana state median is $72,509.
What is the political history of Wheatland County, Montana?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Wheatland County, Montana from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 4 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
