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1876–2024
Delta County, Michigan
Delta County·Michigan

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

Upper Peninsula county where timber and tourism define the economic baseline

18762024·38 elections
Delta County, Michigan · Royalbroil · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+30
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
36,813
2024 ACS
Most similar
Burnett County
WI · similarity 0.99
45 precincts · 21,897 votes cast
Trump · R+30
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−30.4%
7,46214,10921,897
2020R
−26.5%
7,60613,20721,151
2016R
−25.2%
6,43611,12118,594
2012R
−6.6%
8,3309,53418,130
2008D
+6.4%
9,9748,76319,064
2004R
−1.6%
9,3819,68019,238
2000R
−5.2%
7,9708,87117,316
1996D
+16.3%
8,5615,92516,150
1992D
+13.1%
8,3876,02717,962
1988D
+11.1%
8,8917,11416,065
1984R
−6.0%
7,9348,95216,942
1980D
+1.9%
8,4758,14617,692
1976D
+7.2%
9,0277,80917,033
1972D
+2.2%
8,0037,64715,886
1968D
+13.9%
7,8215,82914,364
1964D
+38.7%
10,0464,43414,507
1960D
+10.2%
7,9246,46014,413
1956R
−8.9%
6,4897,76614,300
1952R
−3.9%
6,9217,48814,458
1948D
+12.1%
6,9435,41412,633
1944D
+17.1%
7,3755,21312,644
1940D
+17.1%
8,8026,21815,101
1936D
+32.1%
8,9544,52713,791
1932D
+24.2%
7,3634,38612,285
1928R
−0.0%
5,4195,42010,930
1924R
−45.0%
4634,7619,554
1920R
−39.1%
1,9854,9387,550
1916R
−25.3%
1,7813,0885,169
1912R
−1.0%
1,0661,1114,378
1908R
−47.4%
1,0973,2434,523
1904R
−64.1%
6583,3324,171
1900R
−43.1%
1,2103,0814,343
1896R
−37.6%
1,2372,7744,091
1892R
−11.0%
1,4121,7693,258
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
Catholic & Orthodox
36.8%
Mainline Protestant
9.5%
Other Christian
5.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
3.1%
Methodist
2.3%
Non-Christian
0.2%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 42.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Delta County sits on Little Bay de Noc along Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where a predominantly rural, non-Hispanic white population has shifted sharply toward Republican margins over the past decade, reaching R+30.4 in 2024.

The Republican margin in Delta County reached its widest at sixty-four points in 1904. The margin in 2024 was thirty points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Delta County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $57,809, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 36,813 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 Burnett County and Grant County.