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
GroupGilmer CountyWest VirginiaUnited States
German13.3%14.7%12.5%
Irish11.2%12.3%9.4%
English7.9%15.7%9.5%
American7.2%9.5%5.3%
Scottish1.7%2.1%1.3%
Italian1.3%4.1%4.8%
French1.1%—1.6%
Dutch1.0%——
African American†13.5%2.6%9.9%
Puerto Rican0.5%0.3%1.8%
Mexican0.4%0.7%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
Gilmer County
West Virginia
United States
Median age
41.5
42.9
39.1
Age 18–24
11.8%
8.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
18.1%
21.1%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Gilmer County
West Virginia
United States
Median household income
$47,981
$59,608
$84,427
Poverty rate
19.0%
16.7%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
18.5%
24.4%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Gilmer County
West Virginia
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
4.9%
2.5%
22.3%
Spanish
3.7%
1.2%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Gilmer County
West Virginia
United States
Catholic
1.7%
5.6%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
4.8%
16.4%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
73.8%
62.3%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
19.7%
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.
Gilmer County, West Virginia
Precinct data
Results by precinct
10 precincts · 2,344 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Gilmer County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -1616
170
361
10
541
31.4%
66.7%
R+35.3
Precinct -1717
65
309
2
376
17.3%
82.2%
R+64.9
Precinct -11
44
233
2
279
15.8%
83.5%
R+67.7
Precinct -55
39
183
6
228
17.1%
80.3%
R+63.2
Precinct -1212
41
152
4
197
20.8%
77.2%
R+56.3
Precinct -1313
24
132
3
159
15.1%
83.0%
R+67.9
Precinct -66
32
123
3
158
20.3%
77.8%
R+57.6
Precinct -3131
24
112
3
139
17.3%
80.6%
R+63.3
Precinct -2424
32
101
2
135
23.7%
74.8%
R+51.1
Precinct -2727
15
116
1
132
11.4%
87.9%
R+76.5
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+18.1%
1896
+15.0%
1900
+11.5%
1904
+13.8%
1908
+20.4%
1912
+41.0%
1916
+28.4%
1920
+6.2%
1924
+27.1%
1928
+15.0%
1932
+39.0%
1936
+29.8%
1940
+22.6%
1944
+20.6%
1948
+24.7%
1952
+11.6%
1956
+6.4%
1960
+17.9%
1964
+43.5%
1968
+5.7%
1972
−20.4%
1976
+24.2%
1980
+11.5%
1984
−13.3%
1988
+8.9%
1992
+15.6%
1996
+17.3%
2000
−17.1%
2004
−17.7%
2008
−17.5%
2012
−29.9%
2016
−52.4%
2020
−53.1%
2024
−57.0%
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
R
20.7%Harris486
77.7%Trump1,822
1.0%Kennedy23 +2
R+57.0
R+3.9
R+55.5
2,344
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican77.7%1,822
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic20.7%486
Robert F KennedyIndependent1.0%23
Jill SteinIndependent0.3%7
Chase OliverLibertarian0.3%6
R
22.5%Biden599
75.6%Trump2,012
1.5%Jorgensen39
R+53.1
R+0.7
R+57.5
2,662
R
21.1%Clinton545
73.5%Trump1,896
2.6%Johnson68
R+52.4
R+22.4
R+54.5
2,579
R
33.3%Obama840
63.2%Romney1,595
3.4%
R+29.9
R+12.4
R+33.8
2,522
R
39.8%Obama1,004
57.3%McCain1,445
2.9%
R+17.5
D+0.2
R+24.8
2,521
R
40.6%Kerry1,159
58.4%Bush1,665
1.0%
R+17.7
R+0.7
R+15.3
2,852
R
39.9%Gore1,092
56.9%Bush1,560
2.4%Nader66
R+17.1
R+34.3
R+17.6
2,740
D
52.5%Clinton1,390
35.2%Dole933
11.9%Perot316
D+17.3
D+1.7
D+8.7
2,649
D
50.0%Clinton1,576
34.4%Bush1,085
15.3%Perot484
D+15.6
D+6.6
D+10.0
3,154
D
54.2%Dukakis1,661
45.3%Bush1,387
0.5%
D+8.9
D+22.2
D+16.7
3,064
R
43.3%Mondale1,494
56.6%Reagan1,953
0.1%
R+13.3
R+24.8
D+4.9
3,452
D
53.2%Carter1,854
41.7%Reagan1,452
5.2%
D+11.5
R+12.6
D+21.3
3,486
D
62.1%Carter2,245
37.9%Ford1,371
0.0%
D+24.2
D+44.6
D+22.1
3,616
R
39.8%McGovern1,359
60.2%Nixon2,056
0.0%
R+20.4
R+26.1
D+2.7
3,415
D
49.5%Humphrey1,582
43.8%Nixon1,401
6.7%
D+5.7
R+37.8
D+6.4
3,197
D
71.7%Johnson2,832
28.3%Goldwater1,116
0.0%
D+43.5
D+25.6
D+20.9
3,948
D
58.9%Kennedy2,075
41.1%Nixon1,446
0.0%
D+17.9
D+11.5
D+17.7
3,521
D
53.2%Stevenson2,016
46.8%Eisenhower1,774
0.0%
D+6.4
R+5.3
D+21.8
3,790
D
55.8%Stevenson2,291
44.2%Eisenhower1,813
0.0%
D+11.6
R+13.1
D+22.4
4,104
D
62.4%Truman2,355
37.6%Dewey1,421
0.0%
D+24.7
D+4.1
D+20.3
3,776
D
60.3%Roosevelt2,509
39.7%Dewey1,651
0.0%
D+20.6
R+2.0
D+13.1
4,160
D
61.3%Roosevelt3,276
38.7%Willkie2,067
0.0%
D+22.6
R+7.1
D+12.7
5,343
D
64.9%Roosevelt3,433
35.1%Landon1,858
0.0%
D+29.8
R+9.2
D+5.5
5,291
D
69.1%Roosevelt3,511
30.1%Hoover1,530
0.7%
D+39.0
D+24.0
D+21.2
5,078
D
57.2%Smith2,313
42.2%Hoover1,705
0.6%
D+15.0
R+12.1
D+32.5
4,044
D
63.2%Davis2,750
36.1%Coolidge1,570
0.7%
D+27.1
D+20.9
D+52.3
4,350
D
52.8%Cox1,854
46.6%Harding1,635
0.6%
D+6.2
R+22.2
D+32.4
3,510
D
64.0%Wilson1,695
35.6%Hughes943
0.3%
D+28.4
R+12.6
D+25.3
2,647
D
59.7%Wilson1,493
18.8%Taft469
21.5%
D+41.0
D+20.5
D+21.4
2,500
D
59.1%Bryan1,512
38.7%Taft989
2.2%
D+20.4
D+6.6
D+30.0
2,558
D
55.8%Parker1,435
42.0%Roosevelt1,080
2.3%
D+13.8
D+2.3
D+33.5
2,573
D
55.5%Bryan1,410
44.0%McKinley1,117
0.6%
D+11.5
R+3.5
D+19.1
2,541
D
57.3%Bryan1,356
42.2%McKinley1,000
0.5%
D+15.0
R+3.1
D+21.1
2,367
D
58.0%Cleveland1,187
39.9%Harrison816
2.1%
D+18.1
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D+16.5
2,045
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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
20.8%481
76.3%1,763
2,311
2020
R
22.6%586
74.8%1,939
2,593
2018
D
47.2%944
46.5%929
1,999
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+3.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+57.0
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
+11 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −859 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $36,838 in average income, against $67,839 for residents who stayed — 46% 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 Gilmer County, WV in Gilmer County, WV: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−3
2012
+25
2013
−113
2014
−119
2015
−183
2016
−152
2017
−80
2018
−110
2019
−41
2021
+29
2022
−16
2023
−42
2024
−65
2025
+11
Gilmer County's 2024 presidential margin of R+57 exceeded even West Virginia's already lopsided statewide result, reflecting a rural, aging Appalachian electorate that has shifted sharply over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 43.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 57.0 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 57.0 points.
A population of 7,288, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $47,981 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Pleasants County and Mason 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 Gilmer County, West Virginia vote in 2024?
In 2024, Gilmer County, West Virginia voted Republican by 57.0 points (R+57.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,344 votes cast, 486 went Democratic and 1,822 went Republican.
When did Gilmer County, West Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Gilmer County, West Virginia voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Gilmer County, West Virginia?
Gilmer County, West Virginia has a population of 7,288 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Gilmer County, West Virginia?
Median household income in Gilmer County, West Virginia is $47,981 — below the national median of $80,734. The West Virginia state median is $59,608.
What is the political history of Gilmer County, West Virginia?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Gilmer County, West Virginia from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 25 went Democratic and 9 went Republican.
