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
GroupGilliam CountyOregonUnited States
German21.4%16.3%12.5%
Irish16.1%11.1%9.4%
English14.3%14.1%9.5%
Scottish4.6%3.0%1.3%
French4.2%2.1%1.6%
Norwegian4.2%3.1%—
Welsh3.9%——
Italian3.2%3.5%4.8%
Mexican7.7%11.5%11.3%
Spanish1.2%0.4%—
Peruvian0.5%——
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
Gilliam County
Oregon
United States
Median age
50.1
40.6
39.1
Age 18–24
4.9%
8.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
32.5%
18.9%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Gilliam County
Oregon
United States
Median household income
$66,917
$83,011
$84,427
Poverty rate
15.3%
12.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
21.0%
36.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Gilliam County
Oregon
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
7.6%
15.3%
22.3%
Spanish
7.0%
9.0%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Gilliam County
Oregon
United States
Catholic
4.7%
11.3%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
3.5%
12.8%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
83.2%
66.9%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
8.4%
2.2%
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.
Gilliam County, Oregon
Precinct data
Results by precinct
3 precincts · 1,441 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Gilliam County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -#1#1
93
373
182
648
14.4%
57.6%
R+43.2
Precinct -#7#7
111
242
159
512
21.7%
47.3%
R+25.6
Precinct -#6#6
87
190
4
281
31.0%
67.6%
R+36.7
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−17.6%
1896
−7.9%
1900
−9.6%
1904
−44.3%
1908
−30.0%
1912
−4.4%
1916
+21.3%
1920
−23.8%
1924
−14.8%
1928
−25.9%
1932
+28.6%
1936
+44.0%
1940
+20.4%
1944
+7.1%
1948
−6.7%
1952
−37.3%
1956
−19.2%
1960
−8.0%
1964
+27.3%
1968
−16.3%
1972
−29.0%
1976
−8.9%
1980
−20.0%
1984
−30.8%
1988
−5.9%
1992
−0.3%
1996
+8.4%
2000
−29.4%
2004
−33.8%
2008
−19.6%
2012
−25.3%
2016
−42.4%
2020
−43.3%
2024
−45.3%
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
25.7%Harris291
71.0%Trump805
3.4%
R+45.3
R+2.0
R+43.9
1,134
R
27.5%Biden324
70.8%Trump834
1.4%Jorgensen17
R+43.3
R+0.9
R+47.7
1,178
R
23.5%Clinton239
65.8%Trump671
7.8%Johnson79
R+42.4
R+17.1
R+44.5
1,019
R
35.0%Obama371
60.2%Romney639
1.9%Johnson20
R+25.3
R+5.6
R+29.1
1,061
R
38.7%Obama430
58.4%McCain648
2.9%
R+19.6
D+14.2
R+26.9
1,110
R
32.5%Kerry370
66.3%Bush755
1.1%
R+33.8
R+4.5
R+31.4
1,138
R
32.9%Gore359
62.3%Bush679
3.4%Nader37
R+29.4
R+37.7
R+29.9
1,090
D
46.6%Clinton485
38.3%Dole398
13.8%Perot143
D+8.4
D+8.7
R+0.2
1,040
R
36.0%Clinton374
36.3%Bush377
27.3%Perot283
R+0.3
D+5.6
R+5.8
1,038
R
46.5%Dukakis417
52.4%Bush470
1.1%
R+5.9
D+24.9
D+1.8
897
R
34.4%Mondale369
65.2%Reagan700
0.4%
R+30.8
R+10.8
R+12.6
1,073
R
34.6%Carter394
54.6%Reagan622
10.9%
R+20.0
R+11.1
R+10.3
1,140
R
43.6%Carter508
52.5%Ford612
3.9%
R+8.9
D+20.1
R+11.0
1,166
R
33.2%McGovern355
62.2%Nixon665
4.6%
R+29.0
R+12.7
R+5.8
1,069
R
38.9%Humphrey436
55.3%Nixon619
5.8%
R+16.3
R+43.6
R+15.6
1,120
D
63.5%Johnson775
36.2%Goldwater442
0.2%
D+27.3
D+35.3
D+4.7
1,220
R
46.0%Kennedy606
54.0%Nixon712
0.0%
R+8.0
D+11.1
R+8.2
1,318
R
40.4%Stevenson538
59.6%Eisenhower793
0.0%
R+19.2
D+18.2
R+3.8
1,331
R
31.2%Stevenson415
68.5%Eisenhower911
0.2%
R+37.3
R+30.6
R+26.6
1,329
R
45.9%Truman544
52.6%Dewey623
1.4%
R+6.7
R+13.7
R+11.2
1,184
D
53.5%Roosevelt567
46.4%Dewey492
0.1%
D+7.1
R+13.4
R+0.4
1,060
D
60.1%Roosevelt785
39.6%Willkie518
0.3%
D+20.4
R+23.6
D+10.5
1,307
D
69.7%Roosevelt983
25.7%Landon362
4.7%
D+44.0
D+15.4
D+19.7
1,411
D
63.6%Roosevelt854
35.0%Hoover470
1.4%
D+28.6
D+54.5
D+10.8
1,343
R
36.6%Smith515
62.5%Hoover880
0.9%
R+25.9
R+11.2
R+8.5
1,408
R
35.4%Davis521
50.2%Coolidge738
14.1%La Follette207
R+14.8
D+9.1
D+10.4
1,470
R
36.8%Cox498
60.6%Harding821
2.7%
R+23.8
R+45.1
D+2.4
1,355
D
59.2%Wilson870
37.9%Hughes557
2.9%
D+21.3
D+25.7
D+18.1
1,470
R
36.1%Wilson310
40.5%Taft348
23.4%
R+4.4
D+25.6
R+24.0
859
R
31.9%Bryan242
61.9%Taft470
6.2%
R+30.0
D+14.3
R+20.5
759
R
23.2%Parker195
67.5%Roosevelt568
9.4%
R+44.3
R+34.7
R+24.6
842
R
43.4%Bryan343
53.0%McKinley419
3.7%
R+9.6
R+1.7
R+2.1
791
R
45.8%Bryan470
53.7%McKinley551
0.6%
R+7.9
D+9.7
R+1.8
1,027
R
29.9%Cleveland253
47.5%Harrison402
22.7%
R+17.6
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R+19.2
847
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Congressional elections · 2 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2022
R
34.6%339
63.9%626
980
2020
R
32.0%373
65.7%765
1,164
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+26.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+45.3
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 19 points more Democratic.
1,444 registered voters · 2024 · up from 1,420 in 2022
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+1 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +70 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $90,242 in average income, against $74,011 for residents who stayed — 22% higher. (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 Gilliam County, OR in Gilliam County, OR: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+69
2012
+5
2013
−12
2014
−18
2015
−58
2016
−2
2017
+4
2018
+35
2019
+31
2021
+1
2022
+14
2023
+37
2024
−37
2025
+1
Gilliam County sits in the high desert east of the Cascades, where fewer than 2,000 residents have delivered Republican presidential margins above 40 points in recent cycles, reflecting a pattern common across Oregon's sparsely settled wheat-belt interior.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 45.3 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.3 points.
A population of 1,971, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,917 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mineral County and Broadwater 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, Gilliam County, Oregon voted Republican by 45.3 points (R+45.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,134 votes cast, 291 went Democratic and 805 went Republican.
When did Gilliam County, Oregon last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Gilliam County, Oregon voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Gilliam County, Oregon?
Gilliam County, Oregon has a population of 1,971 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Gilliam County, Oregon?
Median household income in Gilliam County, Oregon is $66,917 — below the national median of $80,734. The Oregon state median is $83,011.
What is the political history of Gilliam County, Oregon?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Gilliam County, Oregon from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 7 went Democratic and 27 went Republican.
