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
GroupHettinger CountyNorth DakotaUnited States
German51.9%34.5%12.5%
Norwegian10.9%20.3%—
Irish7.6%7.3%9.4%
English5.6%5.1%9.5%
Russian4.0%——
Hungarian3.5%——
Swedish2.9%3.2%—
American2.4%2.9%5.3%
Oglala Sioux0.5%——
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
Hettinger County
North Dakota
United States
Median age
42.9
36.4
39.1
Age 18–24
7.6%
11.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
27.0%
16.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Hettinger County
North Dakota
United States
Median household income
$73,026
$76,657
$84,427
Poverty rate
11.0%
10.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
22.0%
32.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Hettinger County
North Dakota
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
4.0%
6.7%
22.3%
Spanish
1.5%
2.3%
13.6%
German or other West Germanic
1.3%
0.7%
0.5%
Religious landscape
Measure
Hettinger County
North Dakota
United States
Catholic
24.7%
21.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
12.6%
10.8%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
42.1%
45.0%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
20.6%
21.0%
5.2%
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.
Hettinger County, North Dakota
Precinct data
Results by precinct
5 precincts · 1,306 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Hettinger County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -11
95
617
16
728
13.0%
84.8%
R+71.7
Precinct -22
97
472
9
578
16.8%
81.7%
R+64.9
Hettinger 31-01 Voting District01
0
0
0
0
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Even
Hettinger 31-02 Voting District02
0
0
0
0
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Hettinger 36-03 Voting District03
0
0
0
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Even
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1908–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1908
−50.4%
1912
−5.2%
1916
−12.2%
1920
−68.7%
1924
−34.3%
1928
−8.0%
1932
+42.1%
1936
+11.9%
1940
−57.0%
1944
−53.1%
1948
−32.4%
1952
−76.6%
1956
−40.5%
1960
−11.7%
1964
+3.5%
1968
−35.3%
1972
−33.7%
1976
−1.7%
1980
−56.0%
1984
−51.0%
1988
−33.0%
1992
−21.2%
1996
−24.3%
2000
−46.3%
2004
−42.8%
2008
−36.1%
2012
−50.4%
2016
−68.1%
2020
−68.2%
2024
−68.7%
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
14.7%Harris192
83.4%Trump1,089
1.0%Oliver13 +1
R+68.7
R+0.5
R+67.2
1,306
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican83.4%1,089
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic14.7%192
Chase OliverLibertarian1.0%13
OtherAll other candidates0.9%12
R
14.9%Biden196
83.2%Trump1,091
1.8%Jorgensen23
R+68.2
R+0.2
R+72.7
1,312
R
13.0%Clinton168
81.0%Trump1,050
3.5%Johnson46
R+68.1
R+17.6
R+70.1
1,296
R
23.0%Obama313
73.4%Romney1,000
3.6%
R+50.4
R+14.3
R+54.3
1,362
R
30.1%Obama406
66.2%McCain893
3.6%
R+36.1
D+6.6
R+43.4
1,348
R
27.1%Kerry405
69.9%Bush1,044
3.0%
R+42.8
D+3.6
R+40.3
1,494
R
23.2%Gore353
69.6%Bush1,057
2.9%Nader44
R+46.3
R+22.0
R+46.9
1,519
R
29.3%Clinton418
53.6%Dole765
16.7%Perot238
R+24.3
R+3.2
R+32.9
1,426
R
25.3%Clinton465
46.5%Bush854
27.2%Perot500
R+21.2
D+11.9
R+26.7
1,838
R
33.1%Dukakis698
66.1%Bush1,395
0.9%
R+33.0
D+17.9
R+25.3
2,111
R
23.8%Mondale524
74.8%Reagan1,646
1.5%
R+51.0
D+5.1
R+32.7
2,202
R
19.2%Carter434
75.3%Reagan1,699
5.5%
R+56.0
R+54.3
R+46.3
2,257
R
47.6%Carter1,095
49.3%Ford1,135
3.1%
R+1.7
D+32.0
R+3.8
2,302
R
31.2%McGovern726
64.9%Nixon1,511
3.9%
R+33.7
D+1.6
R+10.6
2,327
R
28.7%Humphrey638
64.0%Nixon1,424
7.4%
R+35.3
R+38.8
R+34.6
2,226
D
51.7%Johnson1,275
48.2%Goldwater1,188
0.1%
D+3.5
D+15.2
R+19.1
2,465
R
44.1%Kennedy1,219
55.8%Nixon1,541
0.1%
R+11.7
D+28.8
R+11.8
2,762
R
29.7%Stevenson796
70.2%Eisenhower1,882
0.1%
R+40.5
D+36.1
R+25.1
2,682
R
11.2%Stevenson297
87.8%Eisenhower2,330
1.0%
R+76.6
R+44.2
R+65.8
2,654
R
31.9%Truman752
64.3%Dewey1,517
3.8%
R+32.4
D+20.6
R+36.9
2,358
R
23.4%Roosevelt554
76.4%Dewey1,812
0.2%
R+53.1
D+4.0
R+60.6
2,371
R
21.3%Roosevelt671
78.3%Willkie2,468
0.4%
R+57.0
R+68.9
R+67.0
3,151
D
41.7%Roosevelt1,383
29.8%Landon989
28.5%
D+11.9
R+30.3
R+12.4
3,317
D
69.6%Roosevelt2,336
27.4%Hoover921
3.0%
D+42.1
D+50.1
D+24.3
3,358
R
45.9%Smith1,323
53.9%Hoover1,553
0.2%
R+8.0
D+26.3
D+9.5
2,883
O
5.4%Davis128
39.7%Coolidge936
54.8%La Follette1,291
La Follette +15.1
D+34.4
R+9.1
2,356
R
14.8%Cox327
83.4%Harding1,849
1.8%
R+68.7
R+56.5
R+42.5
2,216
R
41.4%Wilson661
53.7%Hughes856
4.9%
R+12.2
R+7.0
R+15.4
1,595
R
32.5%Wilson381
37.7%Taft442
29.8%
R+5.2
D+45.2
R+24.7
1,172
R
23.6%Bryan181
74.0%Taft568
2.5%
R+50.4
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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
17.6%225
82.4%1,057
1,282
2022
R
10.9%113
69.4%718
1,034
2018
R
21.7%274
78.3%988
1,262
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+27 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +31 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $39,419 in average income, against $95,109 for residents who stayed — 59% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
The places arrivals came from lean R+65.2 on average — 3.5 points more Democratic-leaning than Hettinger County, ND itself (R+68.7).
Where arrivals came from lean of each source
Stark County, ND22R+65.2
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Stark County, ND20
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 Hettinger County, ND in Hettinger County, ND: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+44
2012
+49
2013
+105
2014
−11
2015
+24
2016
−63
2017
−130
2018
+9
2019
−17
2021
−29
2022
+18
2023
+2
2024
+3
2025
+27
Hettinger County, a sparsely populated stretch of western North Dakota plains, recorded an R+68.7 presidential margin in 2024, reflecting the deep Republican alignment typical of the state's ranching and agriculture-dependent counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 42.1 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 76.6 points in 1952. The 2024 margin was 68.7 points.
A population of 2,432, a 94% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,026 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Oliver County and Tripp 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.
How did Hettinger County, North Dakota vote in 2024?
In 2024, Hettinger County, North Dakota voted Republican by 68.7 points (R+68.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,306 votes cast, 192 went Democratic and 1,089 went Republican.
When did Hettinger County, North Dakota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Hettinger County, North Dakota voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Hettinger County, North Dakota?
Hettinger County, North Dakota has a population of 2,432 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Hettinger County, North Dakota?
Median household income in Hettinger County, North Dakota is $73,026 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Dakota state median is $76,657.
What is the political history of Hettinger County, North Dakota?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Hettinger County, North Dakota from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 3 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
