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
GroupOliver CountyNorth DakotaUnited States
German62.8%34.5%12.5%
Norwegian14.1%20.3%—
Irish6.8%7.3%9.4%
English5.7%5.1%9.5%
American4.7%2.9%5.3%
Swedish4.5%3.2%—
Russian4.3%——
French1.6%2.3%1.6%
Spaniard0.8%0.2%—
Spanish0.2%——
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
Oliver County
North Dakota
United States
Median age
46.1
36.4
39.1
Age 18–24
3.9%
11.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
27.3%
16.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Oliver County
North Dakota
United States
Median household income
$77,240
$76,657
$84,427
Poverty rate
5.2%
10.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
23.0%
32.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Oliver County
North Dakota
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
1.4%
6.7%
22.3%
German or other West Germanic
1.0%
0.7%
0.5%
Religious landscape
Measure
Oliver County
North Dakota
United States
Catholic
33.7%
21.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
—
10.8%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
43.4%
45.0%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
22.9%
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.
Oliver County, North Dakota
Precinct data
Results by precinct
8 precincts · 1,087 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Oliver County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -PCT 1PCT 1
156
909
22
1,087
14.4%
83.6%
R+69.3
Oliver 33-01 Voting District01
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Oliver 33-02 Voting District02
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Oliver 33-03 Voting District03
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Oliver 33-04 Voting District04
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Oliver 33-05 Voting District05
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Oliver 33-06 Voting District06
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Oliver 33-07 Voting District07
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
−42.2%
1896
−0.9%
1900
−18.7%
1904
−65.9%
1908
−28.1%
1912
+1.4%
1916
−2.6%
1920
−77.2%
1924
−29.4%
1928
−3.7%
1932
+57.9%
1936
+27.8%
1940
−67.2%
1944
−54.6%
1948
−40.3%
1952
−76.7%
1956
−47.2%
1960
−17.4%
1964
+7.8%
1968
−35.7%
1972
−36.6%
1976
−4.0%
1980
−52.9%
1984
−36.6%
1988
−13.7%
1992
−16.0%
1996
−16.2%
2000
−44.2%
2004
−42.9%
2008
−33.7%
2012
−40.7%
2016
−69.9%
2020
−74.0%
2024
−69.3%
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
14.4%Harris156
83.6%Trump909
1.7%Oliver19 +1
R+69.3
D+4.7
R+67.8
1,087
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican83.6%909
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic14.4%156
Chase OliverLibertarian1.7%19
OtherAll other candidates0.3%3
R
12.1%Biden129
86.1%Trump918
1.7%Jorgensen18
R+74.0
R+4.1
R+78.5
1,066
R
11.7%Clinton119
81.6%Trump830
4.6%Johnson47
R+69.9
R+29.2
R+72.0
1,017
R
27.7%Obama281
68.4%Romney693
3.8%
R+40.7
R+7.0
R+44.5
1,013
R
31.9%Obama332
65.6%McCain682
2.5%
R+33.7
D+9.2
R+40.9
1,040
R
27.7%Kerry310
70.6%Bush790
1.7%
R+42.9
D+1.3
R+40.4
1,119
R
23.2%Gore244
67.5%Bush709
3.4%Nader36
R+44.2
R+28.0
R+44.8
1,051
R
32.6%Clinton333
48.8%Dole499
17.9%Perot183
R+16.2
R+0.2
R+24.8
1,022
R
24.9%Clinton306
41.0%Bush503
33.1%Perot407
R+16.0
R+2.3
R+21.6
1,228
R
42.5%Dukakis526
56.3%Bush696
1.2%
R+13.7
D+22.8
R+6.0
1,237
R
30.9%Mondale419
67.4%Reagan915
1.7%
R+36.6
D+16.3
R+18.3
1,357
R
20.5%Carter270
73.4%Reagan966
6.1%
R+52.9
R+48.9
R+43.2
1,316
R
46.4%Carter529
50.4%Ford575
3.2%
R+4.0
D+32.6
R+6.1
1,140
R
28.5%McGovern293
65.1%Nixon669
6.3%
R+36.6
R+0.9
R+13.5
1,027
R
27.7%Humphrey269
63.4%Nixon616
8.9%
R+35.7
R+43.5
R+35.0
971
D
53.9%Johnson548
46.1%Goldwater469
0.0%
D+7.8
D+25.2
R+14.8
1,017
R
41.2%Kennedy494
58.7%Nixon703
0.1%
R+17.4
D+29.7
R+17.6
1,198
R
25.9%Stevenson279
73.0%Eisenhower788
1.1%
R+47.2
D+29.6
R+31.8
1,079
R
11.1%Stevenson143
87.8%Eisenhower1,132
1.1%
R+76.7
R+36.4
R+66.0
1,289
R
27.5%Truman304
67.8%Dewey749
4.6%
R+40.3
D+14.3
R+44.8
1,104
R
22.3%Roosevelt219
76.8%Dewey756
0.9%
R+54.6
D+12.6
R+62.1
984
R
16.4%Roosevelt266
83.5%Willkie1,356
0.1%
R+67.2
R+94.9
R+77.1
1,623
D
57.6%Roosevelt906
29.8%Landon469
12.6%
D+27.8
R+30.1
D+3.5
1,573
D
78.4%Roosevelt1,152
20.6%Hoover302
1.0%
D+57.9
D+61.6
D+40.1
1,469
R
47.9%Smith631
51.7%Hoover680
0.4%
R+3.7
D+25.7
D+13.7
1,316
O
2.7%Davis31
32.2%Coolidge367
64.8%La Follette739
La Follette +33.0
D+47.8
R+4.3
1,141
R
8.6%Cox111
85.9%Harding1,105
5.5%
R+77.2
R+74.6
R+51.0
1,287
R
45.2%Wilson327
47.8%Hughes346
7.0%
R+2.6
R+4.0
R+5.8
724
O
24.0%Wilson139
22.7%Taft131
53.3%
Roosevelt +29.2
D+29.5
R+18.2
578
R
34.4%Bryan179
62.5%Taft325
3.1%
R+28.1
D+37.8
R+18.5
520
R
15.5%Parker46
81.4%Roosevelt241
3.0%
R+65.9
R+47.2
R+46.2
296
R
40.1%Bryan75
58.8%McKinley110
1.1%
R+18.7
R+17.9
R+11.2
187
R
49.6%Bryan58
50.4%McKinley59
0.0%
R+0.9
D+41.3
D+5.2
117
O
0.0%Cleveland0
42.2%Harrison35
57.8%
Weaver +15.7
—
R+43.8
83
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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
20.4%217
79.6%846
1,063
2022
R
9.9%82
61.2%509
832
2018
R
25.9%250
74.1%717
967
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+4 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +17 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $58,933 in average income, against $93,176 for residents who stayed — 37% 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 Oliver County, ND in Oliver County, ND: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+2
2012
−8
2013
+32
2014
−29
2015
−11
2016
+21
2017
+24
2018
−3
2019
−1
2021
+2
2022
−21
2023
+6
2024
−1
2025
+4
Oliver County's 2,065 residents have delivered some of the widest presidential margins in the state, reflecting the deep rural Republican lean common across the northern Great Plains. Sparse settlement and an agricultural economy define its political geography.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 57.9 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 77.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 4.7 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 69.3 points.
A population of 1,839, a 99% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,240 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Hettinger County and Kidder 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, Oliver County, North Dakota voted Republican by 69.3 points (R+69.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,087 votes cast, 156 went Democratic and 909 went Republican.
When did Oliver County, North Dakota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Oliver County, North Dakota voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Oliver County, North Dakota?
Oliver County, North Dakota has a population of 1,839 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Oliver County, North Dakota?
Median household income in Oliver County, North Dakota is $77,240 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Dakota state median is $76,657.
What is the political history of Oliver County, North Dakota?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Oliver County, North Dakota from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 3 went Democratic and 28 went Republican.
