Polk County, Florida

2024 results by precinct

172 precincts · 348,883 votes cast

Trump · R+21

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−20.7%	136,848	209,030	348,883
2020	R	−14.4%	145,049	194,586	343,256
2016	R	−14.1%	117,433	157,430	284,314
2012	R	−6.8%	114,622	131,577	248,683
2008	R	−6.1%	113,865	128,878	244,833
2004	R	−17.8%	86,009	123,559	210,830
2000	R	−9.0%	75,207	90,310	168,629
1996	R	−0.8%	66,747	67,962	150,173
1992	R	−9.9%	51,450	65,963	145,900
1988	R	−33.5%	38,249	77,104	116,040
1984	R	−40.7%	35,516	84,246	119,784
1980	R	−15.4%	43,327	59,651	106,315
1976	D	+3.3%	47,286	44,238	92,706
1972	R	−57.2%	16,419	60,748	77,460
1968	R	−15.9%	15,898	27,839	75,277
1964	R	−10.0%	29,355	35,906	65,261
1960	R	−14.6%	23,546	31,618	55,164
1956	R	−12.0%	18,626	23,682	42,308
1952	R	−3.3%	19,556	20,874	40,430
1948	D	+19.0%	12,034	7,692	22,892
1944	D	+43.7%	13,152	5,150	18,302
1940	D	+52.1%	17,690	5,564	23,254
1936	D	+43.0%	10,441	4,164	14,605
1932	D	+46.1%	9,463	3,490	12,953
1928	R	−23.3%	4,576	7,460	12,386
1924	D	+29.1%	3,070	1,530	5,296
1920	D	+35.9%	3,918	1,782	5,949
1916	D	+59.0%	2,574	578	3,381
1912	D	+66.4%	1,520	106	2,128
1908	D	+53.5%	1,251	290	1,797
1904	D	+69.7%	869	125	1,067
1900	D	+68.8%	983	133	1,235
1896	D	+57.8%	1,155	279	1,515
1892	D	+81.9%	869	0	1,061
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	D	+84.8%	755	62	817
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%

Polish

0.8%

African American

11.7%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 39.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

1.3%

3.1%

75–84

3.5%

5.0%

65–74

5.8%

5.7%

55–64

6.1%

5.8%

45–54

5.9%

6.5%

35–44

6.5%

6.7%

25–34

6.7%

4.3%

18–24

4.3%

8.4%

5–17

8.0%

2.9%

2.7%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$65,978

Polk County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Polk County$65,978

Florida$74,568

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

14.5%

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

Other Christian

14.0%

Catholic & Orthodox

9.5%

Baptist

8.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

4.8%

Methodist

2.7%

Mainline Protestant

1.8%

Non-Christian

0.8%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 58.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Polk sits between Tampa and Orlando but votes more like rural Florida, with its mix of agricultural towns, phosphate industry workers, and fast-growing exurban subdivisions producing a 20-point Republican margin in 2024.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Polk County, by a fifteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at fifty-seven points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-one points.

The political shift has tracked, in Polk County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 56% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $65,978, and a 15% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Brevard County and Manatee County.

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Polk County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.