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
GroupLincoln CountyNevadaUnited States
German19.2%9.4%12.5%
English16.2%8.6%9.5%
Irish8.5%7.9%9.4%
Italian6.3%4.9%4.8%
Swedish3.5%——
Danish3.2%——
French3.1%1.5%1.6%
Russian2.9%——
Mexican6.3%21.4%11.3%
Navajo2.2%——
African American†2.8%7.6%9.9%
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
Lincoln County
Nevada
United States
Median age
45.4
39.3
39.1
Age 18–24
5.9%
8.0%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
25.6%
17.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Lincoln County
Nevada
United States
Median household income
$72,307
$78,260
$84,427
Poverty rate
5.0%
12.4%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
20.4%
27.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Lincoln County
Nevada
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
8.6%
29.5%
22.3%
Spanish
4.2%
20.0%
13.6%
Other Asian & Pacific Island
1.2%
1.1%
1.1%
Other languages
2.3%
0.8%
0.8%
Religious landscape
Measure
Lincoln County
Nevada
United States
Catholic
6.2%
24.7%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
4.8%
6.7%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
27.4%
58.4%
51.5%
Latter-day Saints
60.2%
5.9%
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.
Lincoln County, Nevada
Precinct data
Results by precinct
10 precincts · 2,437 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Lincoln County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -11
49
604
5
658
7.4%
91.8%
R+84.3
Precinct -44
95
551
5
651
14.6%
84.6%
R+70.0
Precinct -22
124
466
2
592
20.9%
78.7%
R+57.8
Precinct -33
44
458
5
507
8.7%
90.3%
R+81.7
Precinct -55
2
27
0
29
6.9%
93.1%
R+86.2
Precinct 1 - Alamo32_320171
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Precinct 2 - Caliente32_320172
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Precinct 3 - Panaca32_320173
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Precinct 4 - Pioche32_320174
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Precinct 5 - Rachel32_320175
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−13.5%
1896
+93.2%
1900
+41.5%
1904
−14.4%
1908
+4.8%
1912
+32.0%
1916
+48.5%
1920
−0.9%
1924
+7.7%
1928
−1.0%
1932
+57.9%
1936
+73.2%
1940
+55.3%
1944
+42.4%
1948
+31.2%
1952
+2.1%
1956
−4.9%
1960
+18.5%
1964
+28.2%
1968
−12.7%
1972
−37.5%
1976
−4.1%
1980
−43.6%
1984
−48.1%
1988
−36.4%
1992
−20.4%
1996
−24.5%
2000
−46.6%
2004
−56.7%
2008
−47.3%
2012
−60.0%
2016
−65.0%
2020
−71.0%
2024
−72.6%
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
12.7%Harris314
85.3%Trump2,108
0.4%Oliver9 +2
R+72.6
R+1.6
R+71.1
2,472
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican85.3%2,108
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic12.7%314
OtherAll other candidates1.3%33
Chase OliverIndependent0.4%9
Joel SkousenIndependent0.3%8
R
13.5%Biden330
84.5%Trump2,067
1.0%NON24
R+71.0
R+6.0
R+75.5
2,446
R
13.4%Clinton285
78.4%Trump1,671
3.9%NON84
R+65.0
R+5.0
R+67.1
2,132
R
18.6%Obama400
78.6%Romney1,691
1.2%Goode25
R+60.0
R+12.7
R+63.8
2,152
R
25.0%Obama518
72.3%McCain1,498
2.7%
R+47.3
D+9.4
R+54.6
2,072
R
20.4%Kerry418
77.1%Bush1,579
2.4%
R+56.7
R+10.1
R+54.3
2,047
R
23.6%Gore461
70.1%Bush1,372
2.0%Nader40
R+46.6
R+22.1
R+47.1
1,956
R
28.0%Clinton499
52.5%Dole936
14.3%Perot255
R+24.5
R+4.1
R+33.0
1,783
R
27.5%Clinton511
47.9%Bush890
21.2%Perot394
R+20.4
D+16.0
R+26.0
1,857
R
29.8%Dukakis466
66.2%Bush1,035
4.0%
R+36.4
D+11.8
R+28.7
1,564
R
24.6%Mondale397
72.7%Reagan1,175
2.7%
R+48.1
R+4.6
R+29.9
1,616
R
25.0%Carter396
68.5%Reagan1,087
6.5%
R+43.6
R+39.4
R+33.8
1,586
R
45.9%Carter642
50.0%Ford700
4.1%
R+4.1
D+33.4
R+6.2
1,399
R
31.2%McGovern382
68.8%Nixon841
0.0%
R+37.5
R+24.9
R+14.4
1,223
R
37.2%Humphrey414
49.9%Nixon555
12.9%
R+12.7
R+40.8
R+12.0
1,113
D
64.1%Johnson785
35.9%Goldwater440
0.0%
D+28.2
D+9.6
D+5.6
1,225
D
59.3%Kennedy771
40.7%Nixon530
0.0%
D+18.5
D+23.4
D+18.4
1,301
R
47.6%Stevenson803
52.4%Eisenhower885
0.0%
R+4.9
R+6.9
D+10.5
1,688
D
51.0%Stevenson941
49.0%Eisenhower903
0.0%
D+2.1
R+29.1
D+12.8
1,844
D
64.6%Truman1,004
33.5%Dewey520
1.9%
D+31.2
R+11.2
D+26.7
1,553
D
71.2%Roosevelt1,295
28.8%Dewey524
0.0%
D+42.4
R+12.9
D+34.9
1,819
D
77.6%Roosevelt1,601
22.4%Willkie461
0.0%
D+55.3
R+17.9
D+45.3
2,062
D
86.6%Roosevelt1,639
13.4%Landon254
0.0%
D+73.2
D+15.3
D+48.9
1,893
D
78.9%Roosevelt1,105
21.1%Hoover295
0.0%
D+57.9
D+58.9
D+40.1
1,400
R
49.5%Smith542
50.5%Hoover553
0.0%
R+1.0
R+8.7
D+16.5
1,095
O
34.8%Davis257
27.1%Coolidge200
38.1%La Follette281
La Follette +3.3
D+8.6
D+32.9
738
R
46.7%Cox366
47.6%Harding373
5.6%
R+0.9
R+49.4
D+25.3
783
D
71.2%Wilson634
22.7%Hughes202
6.2%
D+48.5
D+16.5
D+45.3
891
D
50.3%Wilson275
18.3%Taft100
31.4%
D+32.0
D+27.2
D+12.4
547
D
47.6%Bryan768
42.7%Taft690
9.7%
D+4.8
D+19.2
D+14.4
1,615
R
38.7%Parker295
53.1%Roosevelt405
8.3%
R+14.4
R+55.9
D+5.3
763
D
70.8%Bryan564
29.2%McKinley233
0.0%
D+41.5
R+51.6
D+49.1
797
D
96.6%Bryan847
3.4%McKinley30
0.0%
D+93.2
D+106.7
D+99.2
877
O
4.8%Cleveland26
18.3%Harrison99
76.9%
Weaver +58.5
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R+15.2
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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
14.8%353
82.3%1,959
2,381
2022
R
15.3%321
82.4%1,727
2,095
2018
R
15.0%283
81.9%1,547
1,888
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+53.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+72.6
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 19 points more Democratic.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−16 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −15 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $61,367 in average income, against $71,954 for residents who stayed — 15% 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 Lincoln County, NV in Lincoln County, NV: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−75
2012
+122
2013
−76
2014
−55
2015
−47
2016
+32
2017
+44
2018
+46
2019
−47
2021
−24
2022
+73
2023
+28
2024
−20
2025
−16
Lincoln County's sparse ranching communities and vast open terrain produce some of the most lopsided margins in Nevada, with the 2024 presidential result landing at R+72.6 across a population of roughly 4,000.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 93.2 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 72.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 1.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 72.6 points.
A population of 4,405, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,307 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Dundy County and Oneida 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, Lincoln County, Nevada voted Republican by 72.6 points (R+72.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,472 votes cast, 314 went Democratic and 2,108 went Republican.
When did Lincoln County, Nevada last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Lincoln County, Nevada voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Lincoln County, Nevada?
Lincoln County, Nevada has a population of 4,405 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Lincoln County, Nevada?
Median household income in Lincoln County, Nevada is $72,307 — below the national median of $80,734. The Nevada state median is $78,260.
What is the political history of Lincoln County, Nevada?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Lincoln County, Nevada from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 13 went Democratic and 19 went Republican.
