Pope County, Illinois

2024 results by precinct

6 precincts · 2,133 votes cast

Trump · R+60

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−60.1%	416	1,698	2,133
2020	R	−59.2%	433	1,722	2,176
2016	R	−60.8%	375	1,678	2,142
2012	R	−38.8%	650	1,512	2,222
2008	R	−22.3%	845	1,343	2,231
2004	R	−23.9%	918	1,500	2,436
2000	R	−18.0%	927	1,346	2,330
1996	D	+3.2%	915	850	2,054
1992	D	+4.6%	1,063	951	2,411
1988	R	−9.3%	996	1,202	2,208
1984	R	−24.3%	940	1,545	2,492
1980	R	−25.3%	880	1,501	2,455
1976	R	−5.1%	1,070	1,187	2,275
1972	R	−30.1%	773	1,440	2,218
1968	R	−25.4%	732	1,307	2,268
1964	R	−8.7%	1,117	1,329	2,446
1960	R	−26.9%	971	1,689	2,665
1956	R	−33.3%	922	1,842	2,765
1952	R	−35.2%	933	1,947	2,883
1948	R	−31.5%	916	1,764	2,696
1944	R	−47.2%	813	2,305	3,158
1940	R	−31.9%	1,499	2,914	4,430
1936	R	−23.3%	1,728	2,787	4,548
1932	R	−8.4%	1,697	2,011	3,732
1928	R	−49.0%	679	2,004	2,706
1924	R	−36.4%	978	2,161	3,249
1920	R	−56.0%	687	2,486	3,211
1916	R	−42.4%	1,158	2,924	4,164
1912	R	−18.1%	664	1,099	2,399
1908	R	−38.0%	748	1,706	2,518
1904	R	−42.0%	676	1,744	2,543
1900	R	−33.0%	908	1,817	2,752
1896	R	−26.4%	1,074	1,852	2,942
1892	R	−29.2%	816	1,629	2,785
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

3.8%

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: 53.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.2%

85+

1.7%

4.1%

75–84

4.1%

10.1%

65–74

7.8%

10.6%

55–64

9.9%

6.3%

45–54

7.3%

4.3%

35–44

4.8%

4.3%

25–34

2.5%

4.7%

18–24

2.0%

3.6%

5–17

6.2%

2.0%

2.7%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$60,050

Pope County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Pope County$60,050

Illinois$83,390

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

13.3%

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

Baptist

26.2%

Methodist

5.5%

Mainline Protestant

2.0%

Other Christian

0.6%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 65.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Tucked into the Shawnee Hills along the Ohio River, Pope County's roughly 4,400 residents have delivered Republican presidential margins exceeding 60 points, making it an extreme outlier in a state that trends reliably Democratic statewide.

The Democratic margin in Pope County peaked at five points in 1992. By 2000 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was sixty points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Pope County's median household income of $60,050 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 Crawford County and Monroe County.

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