Luce County, Michigan

2024 results by precinct

8 precincts · 2,991 votes cast

Trump · R+47

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−46.8%	769	2,170	2,991
2020	R	−42.2%	842	2,109	3,001
2016	R	−41.5%	681	1,756	2,591
2012	R	−22.7%	991	1,580	2,596
2008	R	−10.9%	1,191	1,490	2,740
2004	R	−24.9%	1,045	1,749	2,829
2000	R	−20.7%	956	1,480	2,536
1996	D	+5.8%	1,107	964	2,459
1992	D	+0.5%	972	958	2,603
1988	R	−27.5%	864	1,528	2,417
1984	R	−34.4%	833	1,715	2,561
1980	R	−23.1%	992	1,659	2,882
1976	R	−11.2%	1,099	1,379	2,495
1972	R	−28.8%	862	1,579	2,487
1968	R	−21.4%	855	1,351	2,316
1964	D	+25.2%	1,459	871	2,331
1960	R	−29.9%	828	1,534	2,362
1956	R	−45.3%	651	1,734	2,390
1952	R	−48.6%	553	1,603	2,159
1948	R	−37.3%	570	1,273	1,887
1944	R	−20.3%	790	1,195	1,993
1940	R	−18.1%	1,069	1,542	2,617
1936	D	+3.9%	1,297	1,199	2,515
1932	R	−14.8%	928	1,259	2,235
1928	R	−61.1%	350	1,466	1,827
1924	R	−70.0%	112	850	1,054
1920	R	−56.3%	187	708	925
1916	R	−33.5%	257	527	807
1912	R	−21.1%	102	234	626
1908	R	−49.1%	108	354	501
1904	R	−66.9%	63	364	450
1900	R	−42.7%	159	405	576
1896	R	−19.4%	236	358	628
1892	R	−17.5%	160	234	422
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%

Polish

1.2%

African American

6.6%

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: 44.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

1.1%

3.3%

75–84

3.7%

7.1%

65–74

6.5%

7.9%

55–64

6.2%

8.6%

45–54

4.2%

9.9%

35–44

4.0%

8.8%

25–34

2.9%

5.0%

18–24

3.5%

6.5%

5–17

5.8%

2.4%

1.6%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$54,893

Luce County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.

Luce County$54,893

Michigan$72,875

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

16.7%

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

Catholic & Orthodox

14.4%

Mainline Protestant

10.8%

Other Christian

9.9%

Methodist

2.0%

Baptist

1.7%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.0%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 60.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Luce County in Michigan's Upper Peninsula recorded an R+46.9 margin in 2024, consistent with broader U.P. trends where sparse, rural populations and a shrinking timber-era economy have reshaped the electorate over two decades.

The Democratic margin in Luce County peaked at twenty-five points in 1964. By 2000 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was forty-seven points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Luce County's median household income of $54,893 sits well below state and national norms, and 17% 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 Kalkaska County and Henry County.

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