West Census Region — Elections 1876–2024

2024 presidential election

West

HarrisD+10.2

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How it voted

Share of the 2024 vote

Kamala Harris ✓Democratic	53.6%	18,846,838
Donald TrumpRepublican	43.4%	15,264,051
OtherAll other candidates	3.0%	1,044,036

D+60

R+60

448 counties, each filled by 2024 D-vs-R margin. Hover any county for its result.

Gold marks a county an independent or third-party candidate carried.

presidential history

Presidential margin, 1876–2024

Democratic minus Republican, by election

Presidential margin over time
Year	Margin (D minus R)
1876	−1.8%
1880	−1.2%
1884	−8.2%
1888	−5.9%
1892	−13.4%
1896	+28.7%
1900	−2.6%
1904	−32.3%
1908	−15.5%
1912	+21.1%
1916	+7.5%
1920	−32.0%
1924	−37.1%
1928	−28.5%
1932	+21.0%
1936	+34.3%
1940	+14.3%
1944	+10.9%
1948	+3.0%
1952	−15.4%
1956	−13.0%
1960	−2.6%
1964	+19.2%
1968	−5.0%
1972	−18.1%
1976	−5.3%
1980	−19.6%
1984	−20.3%
1988	−6.1%
1992	+8.4%
1996	+7.6%
2000	+2.1%
2004	+1.2%
2008	+14.1%
2012	+11.0%
2016	+15.2%
2020	+16.7%
2024	+10.2%

DemocraticRepublican

38 presidential elections

Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
Year	Won	Democratic	Republican	Other	Margin	Total
2024	D	53.6%Harris18,846,838	43.4%Trump15,264,051	3.0%	+10.2%	35,157,726
2020	D	57.0%Biden21,186,910	40.3%Trump14,990,464	2.7%incl. Jorgensen	+16.7%	37,162,536
2016	D	53.1%Clinton16,040,340	37.9%Trump11,444,712	9.0%incl. Johnson	+15.2%	30,209,252
2012	D	54.1%Obama15,039,843	43.1%Romney11,989,068	2.8%	+11.0%	27,809,519
2008	D	56.0%Obama15,719,984	41.9%McCain11,764,985	2.1%	+14.1%	28,068,524
2004	D	49.9%Kerry12,859,406	48.7%Bush12,555,224	1.4%	+1.2%	25,781,622
2000	D	48.3%Gore10,643,069	46.3%Bush10,188,632	5.4%incl. Nader	+2.1%	22,026,765
1996	D	48.1%Clinton9,613,029	40.5%Dole8,093,392	11.3%incl. Perot	+7.6%	19,964,997
1992	D	42.6%Clinton9,159,865	34.2%Bush7,348,776	23.2%incl. Perot	+8.4%	21,483,098
1988	R	46.2%Dukakis8,560,285	52.3%Bush9,683,454	1.5%	−6.1%	18,522,410
1984	R	39.2%Mondale7,021,699	59.6%Reagan10,659,116	1.2%	−20.3%	17,895,194
1980	R	34.4%Carter5,619,646	54.0%Reagan8,812,989	11.5%incl. Anderson	−19.6%	16,316,184
1976	R	45.7%Carter6,711,187	51.0%Ford7,487,835	3.3%	−5.3%	14,676,928
1972	R	39.0%McGovern5,678,601	57.1%Nixon8,308,957	3.9%	−18.1%	14,559,262
1968	R	43.7%Humphrey5,496,995	48.7%Nixon6,125,434	7.7%incl. Wallace	−5.0%	12,586,914
1964	D	59.5%Johnson7,303,283	40.3%Goldwater4,948,893	0.2%	+19.2%	12,277,381
1960	R	48.5%Kennedy5,566,008	51.1%Nixon5,865,543	0.4%	−2.6%	11,474,393
1956	R	43.3%Stevenson4,185,980	56.3%Eisenhower5,440,913	0.3%	−13.0%	9,658,843
1952	R	41.9%Stevenson3,836,945	57.3%Eisenhower5,245,068	0.8%	−15.4%	9,151,162
1948	D	49.4%Truman3,558,686	46.3%Dewey3,340,091	4.3%incl. Thurmond	+3.0%	7,207,983
1944	D	55.2%Roosevelt3,569,704	44.2%Dewey2,863,448	0.6%	+10.9%	6,471,817
1940	D	56.7%Roosevelt3,581,747	42.4%Willkie2,679,163	1.0%	+14.3%	6,322,439
1936	D	66.0%Roosevelt3,511,098	31.7%Landon1,687,527	2.3%	+34.3%	5,321,252
1932	D	58.2%Roosevelt2,753,159	37.2%Hoover1,759,051	4.5%	+21.0%	4,727,215
1928	R	35.2%Smith1,356,117	63.7%Hoover2,455,936	1.2%	−28.5%	3,856,515
1924	R	16.2%Davis502,105	53.3%Coolidge1,650,930	30.5%incl. La Follette	−37.1%	3,098,250
1920	R	29.5%Cox762,528	61.5%Harding1,590,149	9.1%	−32.0%	2,587,675
1916	D	50.6%Wilson1,316,621	43.1%Hughes1,120,600	6.3%	+7.5%	2,601,915
1912	O	37.2%Wilson684,070	16.1%Taft295,436	46.7%incl. Roosevelt	+21.1%	1,838,137
1908	R	37.8%Bryan485,110	53.4%Taft684,236	8.8%	−15.5%	1,282,105
1904	R	29.5%Parker321,706	61.8%Roosevelt674,422	8.8%	−32.3%	1,092,059
1900	R	47.0%Bryan453,985	49.7%McKinley479,439	3.3%	−2.6%	965,368
1896	D	63.6%Bryan553,152	34.9%McKinley303,318	1.5%	+28.7%	869,338
1892	R	29.1%Cleveland180,516	42.5%Harrison263,790	28.5%incl. Weaver	−13.4%	621,260
1888	R	45.2%Cleveland155,295	51.1%Harrison175,600	3.6%	−5.9%	343,353
1884	R	44.4%Cleveland117,011	52.6%Blaine138,500	3.1%	−8.2%	263,552
1880	R	48.2%Hancock105,089	49.5%Garfield107,798	2.3%	−1.2%	217,867
1876	R	49.1%Tilden76,464	50.9%Hayes79,265	0.0%	−1.8%	155,755

Demographics

Demographic profile

Demographic Profile

Key indicators compared across containing geographies

Demographic Profile. Key indicators compared across containing geographies. ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error. Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.
Indicator	WestCensus region	United StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White	52.4%	61.0%
Black	4.5%	12.2%
Asian	10.8%	6.0%
Two or more races	17.2%	12.6%
Other race	15.1%	8.2%
Hispanic or Latino	30.6%	19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income	$95,174	$84,427
Poverty rate	11.6%	12.5%
Median age	38.2	39.1
Age 18–24	9.1%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	16.3%	17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	36.6%	35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home	32.3%	22.3%
Spanish	20.3%	13.6%
Other Indo-European	2.3%	2.0%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)	2.2%	1.1%
Other Asian & Pacific Island	1.7%	1.1%
Ancestry
Largest ancestry	Mexican 24.1%	German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestry	German 10.4%	Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestry	English 9.7%	English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic	20.8%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	10.6%	16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed	55.9%	51.5%
Latter-day Saints	6.1%	2.0%

ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error.

Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.

2024 ACS

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the origins and ancestries reported within it.

Reported ancestry · ACS B04006

German

10.4%

English

9.7%

Irish

7.6%

Italian

3.5%

American

3.3%

Scottish

1.6%

French

1.3%

Norwegian

0.9%

Specific origin · ACS B03001

Mexican

24.1%

Salvadoran

1.2%

Guatemalan

0.8%

Puerto Rican

0.6%

Spaniard

0.5%

Spanish

0.5%

Cuban

0.2%

Colombian

0.2%

The ACS does not publish subgroup detail for people reporting two or more races.

Tribal grouping · detailed group · ACS B02020 · B02016

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and other single-race responses combined.

Navajo

0.4%

Aztec

0.2%

Detailed group · ACS B02015

Chinese

2.5%

Filipino

2.4%

Asian Indian

1.5%

Vietnamese

1.1%

Korean

0.8%

Japanese

0.6%

Reported ancestry · ACS B04006

African American identity is recorded by the ACS race question; the ancestry item enumerates specific African and Caribbean ancestries only.

African

0.3%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Race shares: B02001 · B03003. Subgroup detail: B03001 (Hispanic or Latino specific origin), B02015 (Asian groups), B02020 · B02016 (American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and Pacific Islander groups), B04006 (reported ancestry). Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so group shares can total more than 100%. All subgroup rows are shares of total population; ancestry is self-reported and multiple-response, so rows do not sum to the parent group's share.

2024 ACS

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 38.2 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.7%

85+

1.1%

2.2%

75–84

2.6%

4.6%

65–74

5.1%

5.9%

55–64

6.0%

6.1%

45–54

6.0%

7.1%

35–44

6.7%

7.5%

25–34

7.1%

4.7%

18–24

4.4%

8.4%

5–17

8.0%

2.8%

2.7%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Median household income

Inflation-adjusted dollars

$95,174

West$95,174

United States$92,788

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

11.6%

Child poverty is below the national average.

Children under 1814.0%

Working age (18–64)10.8%

Seniors (65+)11.6%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

67.7%

speak English only

Spanish20.3%

Other Indo-European2.3%

Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)2.2%

Other Asian & Pacific Island1.7%

Tagalog (incl. Filipino)1.4%

Vietnamese1.0%

Other languages0.9%

Russian, Polish, or other Slavic0.7%

Korean0.7%

Arabic0.4%

French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)0.3%

German or other West Germanic0.3%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

2020 religion census

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Catholic

20.8%

Evangelical Protestant

10.6%

Latter-day Saints

6.1%

Mainline Protestant

1.8%

Other Christian

1.2%

Muslim

0.9%

Black Protestant

0.8%

Buddhist

0.7%

Orthodox Christian

0.4%

Hindu

0.4%

Jewish

0.3%

Other faiths

0.1%

Unaffiliated or not counted55.9%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. The unaffiliated-or-not-counted share is everyone not claimed as an adherent by any reporting body — uncounted congregations as well as the religiously unaffiliated.

West sits in United States. In 2024 it voted Democratic.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 37.1 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 6.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.2 points.

A population of 79,110,410, a 52% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,174 describe the region.

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Frequently asked questions

How did West, United States vote in 2024?

In 2024, West, United States voted Democratic by 10.2 points (D+10.2), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 35,157,726 votes cast, 18,846,838 went Democratic and 15,264,051 went Republican.

When did West, United States last vote Republican?

The most recent presidential election in which West, United States voted Republican was 1988.

How many people live in West, United States?

West, United States has a population of 79,110,410 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in West, United States?

Median household income in West, United States is $95,174 — above the national median of $80,734. The United States state median is $92,788.

What is the political history of West, United States?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in West, United States from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 20 went Republican.

West has voted Democratic in nine straight presidential elections — D+10.2 in 2024.

Demographics

Demographic Profile

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