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
GroupRolette CountyNorth DakotaUnited States
Turtle Mountain Chippewa20.1%0.6%—
Rosebud Sioux0.3%——
Norwegian7.3%20.3%—
German6.6%34.5%12.5%
French Canadian3.0%——
French1.9%2.3%1.6%
Finnish1.8%——
Irish1.4%7.3%9.4%
Polish1.3%1.6%2.2%
English1.1%5.1%9.5%
Mexican1.2%2.8%11.3%
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
Rolette County
North Dakota
United States
Median age
32.5
36.4
39.1
Age 18–24
8.5%
11.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
13.2%
16.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Rolette County
North Dakota
United States
Median household income
$59,517
$76,657
$84,427
Poverty rate
24.3%
10.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
18.0%
32.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Rolette County
North Dakota
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
6.8%
6.7%
22.3%
Other languages
5.3%
1.2%
0.8%
Religious landscape
Measure
Rolette County
North Dakota
United States
Catholic
64.2%
21.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
3.5%
10.8%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
22.4%
45.0%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
9.6%
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.
Rolette County, North Dakota
Precinct data
Results by precinct
10 precincts · 4,075 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Rolette County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -33
1,298
227
24
1,549
83.8%
14.7%
D+69.1
Precinct -22
590
365
27
982
60.1%
37.2%
D+22.9
Precinct -55
201
363
17
581
34.6%
62.5%
R+27.9
Precinct -11
212
351
10
573
37.0%
61.3%
R+24.3
Precinct -44
266
121
3
390
68.2%
31.0%
D+37.2
Rolette Precinct 9-0101
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Rolette Precinct 9-0202
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Rolette Precinct 9-0303
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Rolette Precinct 9-0404
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Rolette Precinct 9-0505
0
0
0
0
—
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Even
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−57.8%
1896
+3.9%
1900
−22.5%
1904
−39.7%
1908
−19.2%
1912
+4.5%
1916
+10.8%
1920
−56.3%
1924
−30.3%
1928
+24.1%
1932
+59.6%
1936
+52.5%
1940
+28.8%
1944
+23.8%
1948
+13.5%
1952
−30.5%
1956
+8.9%
1960
+29.3%
1964
+48.4%
1968
+20.3%
1972
+2.5%
1976
+38.9%
1980
+1.7%
1984
+18.7%
1988
+36.1%
1992
+30.7%
1996
+41.0%
2000
+28.8%
2004
+29.0%
2008
+52.0%
2012
+49.7%
2016
+23.5%
2020
+32.2%
2024
+28.0%
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
D
63.0%Harris2,567
35.0%Trump1,427
1.6%Oliver66 +1
D+28.0
R+4.2
D+29.4
4,075
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic63.0%2,567
Donald J TrumpRepublican35.0%1,427
Chase OliverLibertarian1.6%66
OtherAll other candidates0.4%15
D
65.2%Biden2,482
33.0%Trump1,257
1.6%Jorgensen60
D+32.2
D+8.7
D+27.8
3,804
D
55.9%Clinton2,099
32.4%Trump1,217
4.7%Stein175
D+23.5
R+26.2
D+21.4
3,755
D
73.7%Obama3,353
24.0%Romney1,092
2.4%
D+49.7
R+2.3
D+45.8
4,552
D
75.1%Obama3,403
23.0%McCain1,045
1.9%
D+52.0
D+23.0
D+44.7
4,534
D
63.4%Kerry2,564
34.4%Bush1,392
2.2%
D+29.0
D+0.2
D+31.4
4,044
D
61.0%Gore2,681
32.2%Bush1,416
3.1%Nader137
D+28.8
R+12.2
D+28.2
4,398
D
63.8%Clinton2,299
22.9%Dole823
12.4%Perot448
D+41.0
D+10.3
D+32.5
3,601
D
55.5%Clinton2,002
24.8%Bush895
18.3%Perot660
D+30.7
R+5.4
D+25.1
3,606
D
67.3%Dukakis2,426
31.2%Bush1,126
1.5%
D+36.1
D+17.4
D+43.8
3,606
D
58.1%Mondale2,179
39.4%Reagan1,479
2.5%
D+18.7
D+17.0
D+36.9
3,751
D
46.6%Carter1,660
44.8%Reagan1,599
8.6%
D+1.7
R+37.2
D+11.4
3,566
D
68.5%Carter2,531
29.6%Ford1,094
1.8%
D+38.9
D+36.4
D+36.8
3,693
D
50.7%McGovern1,803
48.1%Nixon1,713
1.2%
D+2.5
R+17.7
D+25.7
3,559
D
57.5%Humphrey1,870
37.2%Nixon1,211
5.3%
D+20.3
R+28.2
D+21.0
3,253
D
74.2%Johnson2,566
25.8%Goldwater892
0.0%
D+48.4
D+19.1
D+25.8
3,458
D
64.6%Kennedy2,335
35.3%Nixon1,277
0.1%
D+29.3
D+20.3
D+29.1
3,615
D
54.4%Stevenson1,728
45.4%Eisenhower1,444
0.2%
D+8.9
D+39.5
D+24.3
3,178
R
34.5%Stevenson1,160
65.0%Eisenhower2,188
0.5%
R+30.5
R+44.0
R+19.8
3,365
D
54.5%Truman1,565
41.1%Dewey1,179
4.4%
D+13.5
R+10.4
D+9.0
2,869
D
61.6%Roosevelt1,745
37.8%Dewey1,070
0.6%
D+23.8
R+5.0
D+16.3
2,832
D
64.2%Roosevelt2,820
35.4%Willkie1,555
0.4%
D+28.8
R+23.7
D+18.9
4,392
D
71.9%Roosevelt3,186
19.3%Landon857
8.8%
D+52.5
R+7.1
D+28.3
4,432
D
79.2%Roosevelt2,855
19.6%Hoover706
1.2%
D+59.6
D+35.5
D+41.8
3,604
D
61.6%Smith2,181
37.5%Hoover1,327
0.9%
D+24.1
D+54.4
D+41.6
3,539
O
5.7%Davis137
35.9%Coolidge869
58.3%La Follette1,410
La Follette +22.5
D+26.0
R+5.1
2,419
R
18.8%Cox535
75.1%Harding2,139
6.2%
R+56.3
R+67.1
R+30.1
2,850
D
50.8%Wilson762
40.0%Hughes600
9.2%
D+10.8
D+6.3
D+7.7
1,500
O
31.2%Wilson396
26.7%Taft339
42.0%
Roosevelt +10.8
D+23.7
R+15.0
1,268
R
36.1%Bryan529
55.3%Taft811
8.6%
R+19.2
D+20.5
R+9.7
1,466
R
26.6%Parker366
66.4%Roosevelt912
7.0%
R+39.7
R+17.2
R+20.1
1,374
R
37.9%Bryan355
60.4%McKinley566
1.7%
R+22.5
R+26.4
R+15.0
937
D
51.3%Bryan331
47.4%McKinley306
1.2%
D+3.9
D+61.7
D+10.0
645
R
0.0%Cleveland0
57.8%Harrison273
42.2%
R+57.8
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R+59.5
472
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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
D
63.0%2,534
37.0%1,486
4,020
2022
D
46.5%1,268
41.0%1,118
2,728
2018
D
80.3%4,042
19.7%993
5,035
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+8 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −1,521 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $44,733 in average income, against $66,248 for residents who stayed — 32% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Ward County, ND31
Cass County, ND24
Grand Forks County, ND22
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 Rolette County, ND in Rolette County, ND: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+22
2012
+41
2013
+104
2014
−113
2015
−180
2016
−136
2017
−209
2018
−354
2019
−213
2021
−126
2022
−176
2023
−126
2024
−63
2025
+8
Rolette County's outsized Democratic margins in a heavily Republican state reflect the political weight of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, whose reservation anchors the county's population and voting patterns.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 59.6 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 57.8 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 28.0 points.
A population of 11,924, a 18% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,517 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Glacier County and Buffalo 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 Rolette County, North Dakota vote in 2024?
In 2024, Rolette County, North Dakota voted Democratic by 28.0 points (D+28.0), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 4,075 votes cast, 2,567 went Democratic and 1,427 went Republican.
When did Rolette County, North Dakota last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Rolette County, North Dakota voted Republican was 1952.
How many people live in Rolette County, North Dakota?
Rolette County, North Dakota has a population of 11,924 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Rolette County, North Dakota?
Median household income in Rolette County, North Dakota is $59,517 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Dakota state median is $76,657.
What is the political history of Rolette County, North Dakota?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Rolette County, North Dakota from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 26 went Democratic and 6 went Republican.
