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
GroupTowner CountyNorth DakotaUnited States
Norwegian35.1%20.3%—
German35.0%34.5%12.5%
Finnish6.3%——
Irish5.5%7.3%9.4%
French3.3%2.3%1.6%
English2.6%5.1%9.5%
American2.3%2.9%5.3%
Italian1.9%—4.8%
Turtle Mountain Chippewa0.9%0.6%—
Mexican4.6%2.8%11.3%
Puerto Rican0.5%0.5%1.8%
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
Towner County
North Dakota
United States
Median age
48.9
36.4
39.1
Age 18–24
3.7%
11.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
23.1%
16.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Towner County
North Dakota
United States
Median household income
$67,350
$76,657
$84,427
Poverty rate
8.5%
10.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
23.5%
32.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Towner County
North Dakota
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
2.9%
6.7%
22.3%
Spanish
2.6%
2.3%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Towner County
North Dakota
United States
Catholic
17.6%
21.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
19.0%
10.8%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
43.6%
45.0%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
19.8%
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.
Towner County, North Dakota
Precinct data
Results by precinct
6 precincts · 1,114 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Towner County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -11
159
527
19
705
22.6%
74.8%
R+52.2
Precinct -33
84
128
3
215
39.1%
59.5%
R+20.5
Precinct -22
46
141
7
194
23.7%
72.7%
R+49.0
Towner 10-02 Voting District02
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Towner 10-03 Voting District03
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Towner 15-01 Voting District01
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
−43.7%
1896
+12.8%
1900
−27.0%
1904
−38.6%
1908
−13.3%
1912
+13.5%
1916
+6.8%
1920
−62.1%
1924
−38.6%
1928
−9.0%
1932
+47.5%
1936
+31.9%
1940
−1.0%
1944
+3.8%
1948
−2.0%
1952
−39.5%
1956
−8.7%
1960
−4.4%
1964
+34.8%
1968
−5.3%
1972
−17.4%
1976
+10.0%
1980
−38.1%
1984
−21.9%
1988
+1.2%
1992
+8.4%
1996
+7.7%
2000
−23.9%
2004
−10.6%
2008
+7.1%
2012
−9.1%
2016
−37.0%
2020
−43.7%
2024
−45.5%
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
25.9%Harris289
71.5%Trump796
2.2%Oliver25 +1
R+45.5
R+1.8
R+44.0
1,114
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican71.5%796
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic25.9%289
Chase OliverLibertarian2.2%25
OtherAll other candidates0.4%4
R
27.0%Biden317
70.7%Trump830
2.1%Jorgensen25
R+43.7
R+6.7
R+48.1
1,174
R
26.4%Clinton305
63.4%Trump733
7.8%Johnson90
R+37.0
R+27.9
R+39.1
1,157
R
43.7%Obama516
52.7%Romney623
3.6%
R+9.1
R+16.2
R+12.9
1,182
D
51.9%Obama621
44.8%McCain536
3.3%
D+7.1
D+17.7
R+0.2
1,197
R
43.6%Kerry606
54.2%Bush754
2.2%
R+10.6
D+13.2
R+8.2
1,391
R
34.5%Gore410
58.4%Bush694
2.6%Nader31
R+23.9
R+31.6
R+24.4
1,189
D
46.8%Clinton649
39.1%Dole542
13.5%Perot187
D+7.7
R+0.7
R+0.8
1,387
D
42.6%Clinton748
34.1%Bush600
22.9%Perot402
D+8.4
D+7.2
D+2.9
1,757
D
50.2%Dukakis970
48.9%Bush946
0.9%
D+1.2
D+23.2
D+9.0
1,934
R
38.2%Mondale789
60.1%Reagan1,242
1.6%
R+21.9
D+16.1
R+3.7
2,065
R
26.8%Carter568
64.9%Reagan1,375
8.3%
R+38.1
R+48.1
R+28.3
2,119
D
54.4%Carter1,216
44.4%Ford993
1.1%
D+10.0
D+27.4
D+7.9
2,234
R
40.6%McGovern944
58.0%Nixon1,349
1.4%
R+17.4
R+12.1
D+5.7
2,325
R
44.5%Humphrey990
49.8%Nixon1,109
5.7%
R+5.3
R+40.1
R+4.7
2,225
D
67.4%Johnson1,628
32.6%Goldwater788
0.0%
D+34.8
D+39.1
D+12.2
2,417
R
47.8%Kennedy1,292
52.2%Nixon1,410
0.0%
R+4.4
D+4.3
R+4.5
2,703
R
45.6%Stevenson1,169
54.3%Eisenhower1,391
0.2%
R+8.7
D+30.8
D+6.7
2,564
R
29.8%Stevenson843
69.2%Eisenhower1,960
1.0%
R+39.5
R+37.5
R+28.7
2,831
R
47.8%Truman1,100
49.8%Dewey1,145
2.4%
R+2.0
R+5.8
R+6.4
2,301
D
51.8%Roosevelt1,185
48.0%Dewey1,097
0.2%
D+3.8
D+4.9
R+3.6
2,286
R
49.2%Roosevelt1,596
50.3%Willkie1,630
0.5%
R+1.0
R+32.9
R+11.0
3,241
D
54.3%Roosevelt1,744
22.4%Landon720
23.3%
D+31.9
R+15.7
D+7.6
3,214
D
73.0%Roosevelt2,190
25.5%Hoover765
1.5%
D+47.5
D+56.5
D+29.7
2,999
R
45.2%Smith1,324
54.2%Hoover1,588
0.5%
R+9.0
D+29.6
D+8.5
2,928
R
9.1%Davis223
47.7%Coolidge1,173
42.8%La Follette1,053
R+38.6
D+23.5
R+13.4
2,461
R
17.2%Cox476
79.3%Harding2,192
3.4%
R+62.1
R+68.9
R+35.9
2,763
D
50.5%Wilson769
43.7%Hughes665
5.8%
D+6.8
R+6.7
D+3.7
1,522
D
39.9%Wilson532
26.4%Taft352
33.7%
D+13.5
D+26.7
R+6.1
1,334
R
40.9%Bryan655
54.2%Taft867
4.9%
R+13.3
D+25.4
R+3.7
1,600
R
28.6%Parker435
67.2%Roosevelt1,022
4.1%
R+38.6
R+11.6
R+19.0
1,520
R
34.9%Bryan454
62.0%McKinley805
3.1%
R+27.0
R+39.9
R+19.5
1,299
D
55.6%Bryan394
42.7%McKinley303
1.7%
D+12.8
D+56.5
D+18.9
709
O
0.0%Cleveland0
43.7%Harrison166
56.3%
Weaver +12.6
—
R+45.3
380
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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
31.9%355
68.1%757
1,112
2022
R
20.8%178
64.3%550
855
2018
R
44.3%497
55.7%624
1,121
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+9 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −153 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $36,929 in average income, against $96,555 for residents who stayed — 62% 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 Towner County, ND in Towner County, ND: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+28
2012
+26
2013
−11
2014
+9
2015
−22
2016
−6
2017
−1
2018
−69
2019
−7
2021
−6
2022
−66
2023
−35
2024
−2
2025
+9
Towner County has fewer than 3,000 residents spread across the Drift Prairie, and its presidential margins have exceeded R+40 in each of the past three cycles, reflecting the deep Republican lean typical of rural northern North Dakota.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 47.5 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 62.1 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.5 points.
A population of 2,079, a 83% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,350 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Griggs County and Miner 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, Towner County, North Dakota voted Republican by 45.5 points (R+45.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,114 votes cast, 289 went Democratic and 796 went Republican.
When did Towner County, North Dakota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Towner County, North Dakota voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in Towner County, North Dakota?
Towner County, North Dakota has a population of 2,079 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Towner County, North Dakota?
Median household income in Towner County, North Dakota is $67,350 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Dakota state median is $76,657.
What is the political history of Towner County, North Dakota?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Towner County, North Dakota from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
