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
GroupCalhoun CountyWest VirginiaUnited States
English18.3%15.7%9.5%
Irish14.3%12.3%9.4%
German9.5%14.7%12.5%
American9.2%9.5%5.3%
French3.8%—1.6%
Italian3.4%4.1%4.8%
Polish1.5%1.4%2.2%
Dutch1.5%——
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
Calhoun County
West Virginia
United States
Median age
48.6
42.9
39.1
Age 18–24
4.7%
8.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
26.4%
21.1%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Calhoun County
West Virginia
United States
Median household income
$43,980
$59,608
$84,427
Poverty rate
32.9%
16.7%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
10.1%
24.4%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Calhoun County
West Virginia
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
0.5%
2.5%
22.3%
Religious landscape
Measure
Calhoun County
West Virginia
United States
Catholic
—
5.6%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
13.4%
16.4%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
72.9%
62.3%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
13.7%
12.5%
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.
Calhoun County, West Virginia
Precinct data
Results by precinct
10 precincts · 2,936 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Calhoun County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -1010
53
318
6
377
14.1%
84.4%
R+70.3
Precinct -1919
46
316
7
369
12.5%
85.6%
R+73.2
Precinct -44
71
256
6
333
21.3%
76.9%
R+55.6
Precinct -55
31
288
5
324
9.6%
88.9%
R+79.3
Precinct -77
65
220
5
290
22.4%
75.9%
R+53.4
Precinct -1515
62
223
4
289
21.5%
77.2%
R+55.7
Precinct -88
52
220
9
281
18.5%
78.3%
R+59.8
Precinct -11
39
216
4
259
15.1%
83.4%
R+68.3
Precinct -1111
34
196
9
239
14.2%
82.0%
R+67.8
Precinct -66
35
138
2
175
20.0%
78.9%
R+58.9
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+23.6%
1896
+19.2%
1900
+14.4%
1904
+8.5%
1908
+9.1%
1912
+32.1%
1916
+16.8%
1920
+3.0%
1924
+22.9%
1928
+11.0%
1932
+33.3%
1936
+32.0%
1940
+20.6%
1944
+14.4%
1948
+15.7%
1952
+0.9%
1956
−4.1%
1960
+0.7%
1964
+34.6%
1968
+1.9%
1972
−13.2%
1976
+25.8%
1980
+3.2%
1984
−8.9%
1988
+8.1%
1992
+16.3%
1996
+14.8%
2000
−12.0%
2004
−11.1%
2008
−15.4%
2012
−22.7%
2016
−59.9%
2020
−60.5%
2024
−64.8%
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
16.6%Harris488
81.4%Trump2,391
1.5%Kennedy43 +2
R+64.8
R+4.4
R+63.3
2,936
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican81.4%2,391
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic16.6%488
Robert F KennedyIndependent1.5%43
Chase OliverLibertarian0.3%8
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%6
R
19.1%Biden568
79.6%Trump2,364
1.0%Jorgensen29
R+60.5
R+0.6
R+64.9
2,971
R
17.3%Clinton456
77.1%Trump2,035
2.4%Johnson63
R+59.9
R+37.2
R+61.9
2,638
R
37.0%Obama818
59.7%Romney1,319
3.3%
R+22.7
R+7.3
R+26.5
2,210
R
40.9%Obama993
56.2%McCain1,366
2.9%
R+15.4
R+4.2
R+22.6
2,429
R
43.8%Kerry1,266
55.0%Bush1,588
1.2%
R+11.1
D+0.8
R+8.7
2,889
R
42.5%Gore1,112
54.5%Bush1,425
2.4%Nader63
R+12.0
R+26.7
R+12.5
2,615
D
51.4%Clinton1,402
36.7%Dole1,000
11.3%Perot307
D+14.8
R+1.5
D+6.2
2,725
D
49.8%Clinton1,627
33.5%Bush1,095
16.4%Perot537
D+16.3
D+8.1
D+10.7
3,268
D
53.8%Dukakis1,644
45.6%Bush1,395
0.6%
D+8.1
D+17.1
D+15.9
3,057
R
45.0%Mondale1,473
53.9%Reagan1,765
1.2%
R+8.9
R+12.1
D+9.3
3,276
D
49.9%Carter1,717
46.7%Reagan1,606
3.4%
D+3.2
R+22.5
D+13.0
3,441
D
62.9%Carter2,173
37.1%Ford1,283
0.0%
D+25.8
D+38.9
D+23.7
3,456
R
43.4%McGovern1,528
56.6%Nixon1,992
0.0%
R+13.2
R+15.1
D+10.0
3,520
D
46.6%Humphrey1,682
44.6%Nixon1,612
8.8%
D+1.9
R+32.7
D+2.6
3,612
D
67.3%Johnson2,626
32.7%Goldwater1,275
0.0%
D+34.6
D+33.9
D+12.0
3,901
D
50.4%Kennedy1,975
49.6%Nixon1,946
0.0%
D+0.7
D+4.9
D+0.6
3,921
R
47.9%Stevenson1,928
52.1%Eisenhower2,094
0.0%
R+4.1
R+5.0
D+11.3
4,022
D
50.4%Stevenson2,138
49.6%Eisenhower2,101
0.0%
D+0.9
R+14.8
D+11.6
4,239
D
57.8%Truman2,126
42.1%Dewey1,549
0.2%
D+15.7
D+1.3
D+11.2
3,681
D
57.2%Roosevelt2,254
42.8%Dewey1,687
0.0%
D+14.4
R+6.2
D+6.9
3,941
D
60.3%Roosevelt2,872
39.7%Willkie1,891
0.0%
D+20.6
R+11.4
D+10.6
4,763
D
65.9%Roosevelt3,369
33.9%Landon1,733
0.3%
D+32.0
R+1.4
D+7.7
5,115
D
66.4%Roosevelt3,139
33.1%Hoover1,564
0.4%
D+33.3
D+22.3
D+15.6
4,724
D
55.3%Smith2,179
44.3%Hoover1,745
0.5%
D+11.0
R+11.9
D+28.5
3,942
D
61.4%Davis2,231
38.5%Coolidge1,399
0.1%
D+22.9
D+19.9
D+48.1
3,633
D
51.4%Cox1,773
48.5%Harding1,671
0.1%
D+3.0
R+13.9
D+29.1
3,447
D
58.1%Wilson1,317
41.3%Hughes936
0.6%
D+16.8
R+15.3
D+13.7
2,266
D
55.9%Wilson1,349
23.8%Taft575
20.2%
D+32.1
D+23.0
D+12.5
2,412
D
53.4%Bryan1,212
44.4%Taft1,006
2.2%
D+9.1
D+0.5
D+18.6
2,268
D
53.8%Parker1,337
45.3%Roosevelt1,125
0.9%
D+8.5
R+5.9
D+28.2
2,484
D
56.8%Bryan1,268
42.4%McKinley946
0.9%
D+14.4
R+4.8
D+22.0
2,233
D
59.6%Bryan1,186
40.4%McKinley804
0.0%
D+19.2
R+4.4
D+25.3
1,990
D
59.9%Cleveland993
36.3%Harrison602
3.8%
D+23.6
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D+21.9
1,658
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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
17.0%484
80.3%2,293
2,854
2020
R
18.6%537
78.8%2,276
2,888
2018
R
45.3%967
49.9%1,065
2,133
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+11.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+64.8
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 54 points more Democratic.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+90 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −293 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $38,526 in average income, against $53,291 for residents who stayed — 28% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Where departures went households, 2022–23
Roane County, WV23
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 Calhoun County, WV in Calhoun County, WV: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−10
2012
−14
2013
−32
2014
+34
2015
−64
2016
−77
2017
−37
2018
−52
2019
−69
2021
+16
2022
−29
2023
−46
2024
−3
2025
+90
Calhoun County's 2024 presidential margin of R+64.8 reflects a broader rural Appalachian shift that has made it among the most lopsided counties in a state that has swung sharply rightward over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 64.8 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 4.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 64.8 points.
A population of 6,048, a 96% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $43,980 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mason County and Meigs 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 Calhoun County, West Virginia vote in 2024?
In 2024, Calhoun County, West Virginia voted Republican by 64.8 points (R+64.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,936 votes cast, 488 went Democratic and 2,391 went Republican.
When did Calhoun County, West Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Calhoun County, West Virginia voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Calhoun County, West Virginia?
Calhoun County, West Virginia has a population of 6,048 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Calhoun County, West Virginia?
Median household income in Calhoun County, West Virginia is $43,980 — below the national median of $80,734. The West Virginia state median is $59,608.
What is the political history of Calhoun County, West Virginia?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Calhoun County, West Virginia from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 24 went Democratic and 10 went Republican.
