Kit Carson County, Colorado

2024 results by precinct

13 precincts · 3,698 votes cast

Trump · R+68

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−68.3%	556	3,083	3,698
2020	R	−64.1%	662	3,143	3,870
2016	R	−65.7%	536	2,967	3,702
2012	R	−52.6%	838	2,785	3,702
2008	R	−44.8%	912	2,455	3,442
2004	R	−56.9%	729	2,721	3,502
2000	R	−50.1%	809	2,542	3,458
1996	R	−29.0%	1,073	2,068	3,432
1992	R	−23.9%	925	1,801	3,658
1988	R	−30.4%	1,196	2,262	3,512
1984	R	−55.4%	778	2,762	3,584
1980	R	−50.2%	790	2,622	3,653
1976	R	−6.7%	1,647	1,888	3,611
1972	R	−45.7%	824	2,316	3,267
1968	R	−29.4%	1,026	1,977	3,237
1964	D	+18.2%	1,906	1,316	3,233
1960	R	−34.1%	1,103	2,248	3,361
1956	R	−42.1%	911	2,243	3,161
1952	R	−42.8%	998	2,511	3,535
1948	R	−18.6%	1,281	1,873	3,181
1944	R	−44.9%	937	2,471	3,419
1940	R	−38.2%	1,100	2,481	3,612
1936	R	−6.4%	1,730	1,980	3,901
1932	D	+10.5%	2,289	1,835	4,313
1928	R	−36.6%	1,137	2,486	3,690
1924	R	−39.6%	720	2,108	3,501
1920	R	−37.6%	796	1,872	2,859
1916	D	+19.5%	1,571	1,030	2,779
1912	D	+6.6%	719	569	2,269
1908	R	−12.7%	752	983	1,817
1904	R	−38.3%	219	514	771
1900	R	−19.0%	259	384	658
1896	R	−4.7%	229	252	493
1892	R	−54.1%	0	277	512
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 39.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.6%

85+

1.9%

2.4%

75–84

3.0%

5.9%

65–74

5.0%

6.9%

55–64

6.7%

4.3%

45–54

5.0%

6.9%

35–44

6.2%

6.6%

25–34

5.3%

2.8%

18–24

3.3%

10.1%

5–17

9.8%

3.9%

2.4%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$70,259

Kit Carson County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Kit Carson County$70,259

Colorado$95,470

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

9.8%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

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

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Catholic & Orthodox

23.0%

Other Christian

13.7%

Mainline Protestant

12.8%

Baptist

5.8%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.2%

Methodist

2.9%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 38.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

A sparsely populated plains county in eastern Colorado, Kit Carson recorded an R+68.3 margin in 2024 — among the widest gaps in the state — reflecting the heavily rural, agricultural character of the region.

The Democratic margin in Kit Carson County peaked at nineteen points in 1916. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was sixty-eight points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Kit Carson County's median household income of $70,259 sits well below state and national norms, and 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The shift here is part of a broader realignment of working-class places across the country. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Morrill County and Polk County.

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Kit Carson County was solidly one party for decades. In the last twenty years, it flipped.