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1876–2024
Roscommon County, Michigan
Roscommon County·Michigan

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

A rural lake-country county where Republicans routinely win by wide margins

18762024·38 elections
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Latest
R+33
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
23,737
2024 ACS
Most similar
Clare County
MI · similarity 0.99
27 precincts · 16,073 votes cast
Trump · R+33
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−32.9%
5,29010,58216,073
2020R
−30.0%
5,1669,67015,018
2016R
−29.4%
4,2878,14113,096
2012R
−3.8%
6,1986,70113,077
2008D
+2.5%
7,0826,72714,051
2004R
−3.9%
6,8107,36414,359
2000D
+1.9%
6,4336,19012,928
1996D
+16.5%
6,0924,13511,834
1992D
+8.9%
5,2434,17012,007
1988R
−14.3%
4,3945,86610,303
1984R
−31.2%
3,3596,4199,823
1980R
−15.7%
3,7635,2809,659
1976R
−10.9%
3,6914,6088,401
1972R
−30.2%
2,1874,1366,445
1968R
−21.1%
1,6392,6354,713
1964D
+15.3%
2,3451,7224,074
1960R
−38.0%
1,2262,7313,962
1956R
−52.6%
8272,6743,509
1952R
−57.8%
6762,5473,239
1948R
−49.2%
6872,0552,781
1944R
−45.2%
4841,2921,789
1940R
−29.3%
7391,3602,118
1936R
−3.2%
7828361,684
1932D
+11.1%
7576011,410
1928R
−53.2%
2367801,023
1924R
−55.4%
99484695
1920R
−54.3%
182652866
1916R
−12.4%
239311582
1912D
+2.7%
150134593
1908R
−45.5%
147427615
1904R
−49.2%
116373522
1900R
−30.0%
175327507
1896R
−32.7%
141282431
1892D
+8.7%
286239540
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
6.1%
Other Christian
3.5%
Methodist
3.5%
Mainline Protestant
3.4%
Baptist
2.8%
Pentecostal & Holiness
2.0%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 78.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Roscommon sits in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula, a sparsely populated resort and retirement area where the 2024 presidential margin reached nearly 33 points — among the wider gaps recorded in the state's rural interior.

The Republican margin in Roscommon County reached its widest at fifty-eight points in 1952. The margin in 2024 was thirty-three points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Roscommon County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $55,246, a 93% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 23,737 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 Clare County and Monroe County.