Wyoming is the most Republican state in the country. Donald Trump carried it by 45.8 points in 2024 — 192,633 votes to 69,527 — the widest margin of any state, ahead of West Virginia at 41.9 and Idaho at 36.5, and wider than his own 43.4 here in 2020. The map runs near the partisan ceiling: of the state’s twenty-three counties, twenty-two voted Republican, several by margins rarely seen anywhere. Niobrara County, on the Nebraska line, ran 80.7 points Republican; Crook 77.4; Campbell, the coal county around Gillette, 76.3. Even Laramie County, which holds the capital at Cheyenne and is the state’s most populous, voted Republican by 32.1.
Two places break the pattern, and only two. Teton County — Jackson Hole, the resort and second-home enclave under the Tetons — was the lone county Trump lost, by 34.7 points, 8,748 votes to 4,134. It is a study in concentrated wealth: a median household income of $124,172, more than $48,000 above the state’s, and a bachelor’s-degree rate of 61.1 percent against 30.7 statewide. The next-closest county is Albany, home to the University of Wyoming at Laramie, which voted Republican by 3.1 points — the only other county in single digits, and one that had gone Democratic by 2.8 four years earlier in 2020.
Underneath sits the least-populous state in the country, 582,397 residents, on an economy built on coal, oil, and gas. The profile is uniform: 81.4 percent White, the largest reported ancestries German at 21.5 percent and English at 15.7; Hispanic or Latino residents are 10.7 percent, most of Mexican origin. The religious map is distinctive — Wyoming holds the third-largest Latter-day Saint share of any state, at 11.6 percent, just behind a Catholic 12.0. In 2026 both top offices are open: Governor Mark Gordon is term-limited and Senator Cynthia Lummis is not seeking re-election, with the August 18 Republican primaries — the de facto general elections here — not yet held.
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