Akashic

2024StatewideR+36.4

Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

County53 areas · 2024 presidential vote

Sioux654285D+38.7953 Rolette2,5671,427D+28.04,075 Cass40,30447,873R+8.390,851 Grand Forks12,46918,123R+18.031,411 Benson7951,163R+18.42,002 Steele367622R+25.11,015 Ransom9201,661R+28.02,649 Traill1,3592,650R+31.44,115 Nelson5801,141R+31.91,761 Sargent6631,325R+32.42,043 Barnes1,6613,531R+35.05,339 Richland2,4735,576R+37.68,261 Ramsey1,5133,609R+40.05,239 Burleigh14,21536,595R+42.852,263 Mountrail1,1252,877R+43.04,073 Stutsman2,6927,185R+44.310,134 Walsh1,1733,186R+44.84,496 Eddy316862R+45.31,205 Towner289796R+45.51,114 Ward7,21520,635R+47.028,552 Cavalier4911,461R+48.81,987 Griggs301963R+51.41,289 Dickey5571,829R+51.92,453 Pembina7042,350R+52.93,112 Morton3,74812,839R+53.417,036 Pierce4391,493R+53.51,970 LaMoure4531,614R+54.72,123 Bottineau7352,628R+54.93,447 Divide253914R+55.01,201 McLean1,0934,231R+57.95,421 Foster3351,326R+58.21,703 Adams215962R+62.21,201 Wells4051,815R+62.62,253 McHenry4792,223R+63.42,752 Kidder2381,137R+64.31,398 McIntosh2291,132R+65.01,390 Stark2,47312,323R+65.215,100 Grant2051,076R+66.71,306 Renville179993R+67.41,208 Williams2,27612,501R+67.615,122 Mercer6723,798R+68.64,555 Hettinger1921,089R+68.71,306 Dunn3321,877R+68.92,242 McKenzie8094,627R+69.25,521 Oliver156909R+69.31,087 Billings93543R+69.6647 Sheridan101644R+71.7757 Bowman2071,384R+72.71,618 Golden Valley122847R+73.2991 Burke130909R+73.81,056 Logan117898R+75.61,033 Emmons2051,697R+77.31,930 Slope33351R+81.7389

North Dakota is among the most Republican states in the country, and 2024 set its widest presidential margin in at least nine cycles — Donald Trump by 36.4 points (R+36.4), past the R+35.7 of 2016 and the R+33.3 of 2020. It has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1968. The map is nearly uniform: of the state’s 53 counties, Trump carried 51, and many by enormous margins — Slope County at R+81.7, Emmons at R+77.3, the Bakken oil counties of McKenzie at R+69.2 and Williams at R+67.6. Even Fargo’s Cass County, the largest and closest, went R+8.3.

The two exceptions are the Native American reservations, and they have held the same way for cycles. Sioux County — Standing Rock, where the 2016 pipeline protests drew thousands — gave Kamala Harris a 38.7-point margin (D+38.7), the widest Democratic result in the state; its population is 83.2 percent American Indian and other single-race residents by the 2024 ACS, with a poverty rate of 43.3 percent. Rolette County — Turtle Mountain, 75.9 percent the same and one in five reporting Turtle Mountain Chippewa ancestry — went D+28.0. Both have voted Democratic in 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024, the lone blue marks on an otherwise Republican map.

The profile underneath is white, agricultural, and young. White residents are 81.7 percent of the state, the largest ancestries German (34.5 percent) and Norwegian (20.3 percent), a legacy of Northern Plains homesteading; American Indian and other single-race residents add 4.7 percent statewide, concentrated on the reservations. The median age is 36.4, fourth-youngest of the fifty states, held down by the oil-and-gas boom that pulled young workers to the western Bakken. Median household income is $76,657, just under the U.S. $80,734, with poverty at 10.8 percent. In 2026 the at-large U.S. House seat is the only federal race: Julie Fedorchak (R) faces Trygve Hammer (D) in a rematch of 2024.

presidential margin

2004–2024 · Democratic minus Republican

2004R+27.4

2008R+8.6

2012R+19.6

2016R+35.7

2020R+33.3

2024R+36.4

full record · 1892 → 2024

presidential returns

2024 turnout 63.3% of 581,737 citizens 18+

Year	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	CVAP	Turnout
2024	112,327	246,505	9,323	368,155	581,737	63.3%
2020	114,922	235,595	11,322	361,839	564,942	64.0%
2016	93,758	216,794	33,808	344,360	555,691	62.0%
2012	124,827	188,163	9,637	322,627	517,098	62.4%
2008	141,278	168,561	6,742	316,581	488,833	64.8%
2004	111,052	196,651	5,130	312,833	460,568^†	67.9%

^† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

German34.5%12.5%

Norwegian20.3%—

Irish7.3%9.4%

English5.1%9.5%

Swedish3.2%—

American2.9%5.3%

French2.3%1.6%

Polish1.6%2.2%

Mexican2.8%11.3%

Puerto Rican0.5%1.8%

Spaniard0.2%—

Turtle Mountain Chippewa0.6%—

African American†1.6%9.9%

African0.5%0.5%

Liberian0.4%—

Nigerian0.2%0.2%

Filipino0.3%0.9%

Asian Indian0.2%1.4%

Chinese0.2%1.3%

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	North Dakota	United States
Median age	36.4	39.1
Age 18–24	11.1%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	16.5%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	North Dakota	United States
Median household income	$76,657	$84,427
Poverty rate	10.8%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	32.9%	35.6%

Languages at home

Measure	North Dakota	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	6.7%	22.3%
Spanish	2.3%	13.6%
Other languages	1.2%	0.8%

Religious landscape

Measure	North Dakota	United States
Catholic	21.1%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	10.8%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	45.0%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	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.

current representation

Current officeholders

RKelly ArmstrongGovernor

RMichelle StrindenLieutenant Governor

RMichael HoweSecretary of State

RDrew WrigleyAttorney General

RJosh GallionState Auditor

RThomas BeadleState Treasurer

RDoug GoehringAgriculture Commissioner

RJon GodfreadInsurance Commissioner

RBrian KroshusTax Commissioner

OLevi BachmeierSuperintendent of Public Instruction

RRandy ChristmannPublic Service Commissioner

RSheri Haugen-HoffartPublic Service Commissioner

RJill KringstadPublic Service Commissioner

RKevin CramerU.S. Senate+0.40

RJohn HoevenU.S. Senate+0.40

U.S. House1 seat · R 1

RND-01Julie Fedorchak

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / state SoS); U.S. delegation from Voteview HSall_members.csv.

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Year

Democrat

Republican

Others

Total

CVAP

Turnout

2024

112,327

246,505

9,323

368,155

581,737

63.3%

2020

114,922

235,595

11,322

361,839

564,942

64.0%

2016

93,758

216,794

33,808

344,360

555,691

62.0%

2012

124,827

188,163

9,637

322,627

517,098

62.4%

2008

141,278

168,561

6,742

316,581

488,833

64.8%

2004

111,052

196,651

5,130

312,833

460,568^†

67.9%

Measure

North Dakota

United States

Median age

36.4

39.1

Age 18–24

11.1%

9.2%

Age 65 and older

16.5%

17.2%

Measure

North Dakota

United States

Median household income

$76,657

$84,427

Poverty rate

10.8%

12.5%

Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)

32.9%

35.6%

Measure

North Dakota

United States

Speaks a non-English language at home

6.7%

22.3%

Spanish

2.3%

13.6%

Other languages

1.2%

0.8%

Measure

North Dakota

United States

Catholic

21.1%

18.6%

Evangelical Protestant

10.8%

16.5%

Unclaimed / not counted

45.0%

51.5%

Mainline Protestant

21.0%

5.2%

Current officeholders

RKelly ArmstrongGovernor

RMichelle StrindenLieutenant Governor

RMichael HoweSecretary of State

RDrew WrigleyAttorney General

RJosh GallionState Auditor

RThomas BeadleState Treasurer

RDoug GoehringAgriculture Commissioner

RJon GodfreadInsurance Commissioner

RBrian KroshusTax Commissioner

OLevi BachmeierSuperintendent of Public Instruction

RRandy ChristmannPublic Service Commissioner

RSheri Haugen-HoffartPublic Service Commissioner

RJill KringstadPublic Service Commissioner

RKevin CramerU.S. Senate+0.40

RJohn HoevenU.S. Senate+0.40

U.S. House1 seat · R 1

RND-01Julie Fedorchak

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / state SoS); U.S. delegation from Voteview HSall_members.csv.

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