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1876–2024
Lemhi County, Idaho
Lemhi County·Idaho

Lemhi County has voted Republican for as long as anyone can remember.

One of Idaho's most remote counties, tilting hard toward Republicans

18762024·38 elections
Lemhi County, Idaho · John Stanton · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+55
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
8,249
2024 ACS
Most similar
Custer County
ID · similarity 1.00
9 precincts · 4,874 votes cast
Trump · R+55
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−54.9%
1,0383,7164,874
2020R
−54.0%
1,0323,5924,738
2016R
−55.6%
7333,0114,096
2012R
−50.3%
9603,0294,110
2008R
−45.7%
1,0612,9384,105
2004R
−53.4%
9153,0794,055
2000R
−60.4%
6602,8593,641
1996R
−34.1%
1,0152,3343,868
1992R
−14.2%
9961,5403,821
1988R
−34.0%
1,1572,3783,590
1984R
−52.8%
8522,8103,708
1980R
−50.1%
7942,6463,699
1976R
−17.6%
1,1591,6852,989
1972R
−44.0%
5261,8122,923
1968R
−36.3%
5471,4762,562
1964R
−16.7%
1,0671,4962,563
1960R
−2.7%
1,2831,3552,638
1956R
−26.7%
1,0381,7942,832
1952R
−42.4%
8482,1002,950
1948R
−8.9%
8641,0371,938
1944R
−2.9%
9881,0482,040
1940D
+8.2%
1,6641,4123,077
1936D
+26.4%
1,6489432,666
1932D
+24.9%
1,3327932,167
1928R
−15.1%
8371,1391,994
1924R
−30.5%
4421,0051,848
1920R
−29.6%
6991,2891,992
1916D
+18.9%
1,0807231,884
1912D
+12.1%
9106691,999
1908R
−1.9%
7778091,655
1904R
−15.7%
5647861,418
1900D
+25.4%
8975291,449
1896D
+68.0%
1,0652021,269
1892R
−57.4%
0330575
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.
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
32.9%
Catholic & Orthodox
8.5%
Baptist
8.1%
Mainline Protestant
3.1%
Methodist
2.3%
Pentecostal & Holiness
0.9%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 44.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Lemhi County stretches across rugged central Idaho terrain with a population under 8,000, and its 2024 presidential margin of R+55 reflects the lopsided partisan patterns typical of sparsely settled mountain-West counties.

The Republican margin in Lemhi County reached its widest at sixty points in 2000. The margin in 2024 was fifty-five points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Lemhi County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $53,202, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 8,249 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Custer County and Shasta County.