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1876–2024
Sedgwick County, Colorado
Sedgwick County·Colorado

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

One of Colorado's least-populous counties, tilting hard toward Republican candidates

18762024·38 elections
Sedgwick County, Colorado · Calvin Beale · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+56
in 2024
Archetype
Populist
since the recent cycles
Population
2,304
2024 ACS
Most similar
Stevens County
WA · similarity 1.00
5 precincts · 1,358 votes cast
Trump · R+56
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−56.3%
2831,0481,358
2020R
−56.7%
3011,1211,446
2016R
−54.8%
2671,0151,364
2012R
−34.5%
4198811,338
2008R
−28.8%
4688571,351
2004R
−43.9%
3749711,360
2000R
−37.8%
3848771,303
1996R
−14.4%
5197151,357
1992R
−4.4%
3974471,146
1988R
−20.1%
6119211,545
1984R
−45.3%
4291,1461,583
1980R
−41.7%
4381,1511,708
1976R
−7.6%
7739021,700
1972R
−38.7%
4851,1291,664
1968R
−27.9%
5461,0071,653
1964D
+2.6%
9428951,839
1960R
−23.0%
7691,2302,003
1956R
−27.3%
7601,3342,099
1952R
−37.9%
6861,5282,223
1948R
−10.0%
8341,0201,867
1944R
−36.7%
5681,2281,799
1940R
−20.2%
9591,4482,419
1936D
+15.8%
1,3589772,408
1932D
+17.9%
1,2888842,261
1928R
−36.1%
5801,2471,847
1924R
−27.2%
3727791,499
1920R
−35.6%
3728191,254
1916R
−0.9%
5195291,129
1912D
+0.9%
3383281,105
1908R
−31.4%
278544846
1904R
−43.5%
131347497
1900R
−21.1%
163256440
1896D
+24.2%
216130355
1892R
−44.9%
0131292
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%
African American
0.8%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
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.
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
16.3%
Other Christian
7.3%
Mainline Protestant
6.7%
Methodist
5.6%
Baptist
1.0%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 63.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Sedgwick County sits in Colorado's northeastern corner, where wheat farming and cattle ranching define the economy. Its small, rural electorate has delivered some of the widest Republican presidential margins in the state across recent cycles.

The Democratic margin in Sedgwick County peaked at twenty-four points in 1896. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was fifty-six points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Sedgwick County's median household income of $52,386 sits well below state and national norms, and 13% 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 Stevens County and Bowman County.