Cook County, Minnesota

2024 results by precinct

14 precincts · 3,660 votes cast

Harris · D+35

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	D	+34.8%	2,416	1,142	3,660
2020	D	+34.0%	2,496	1,203	3,806
2016	D	+22.3%	1,912	1,156	3,395
2012	D	+23.2%	1,993	1,221	3,322
2008	D	+23.3%	2,019	1,240	3,348
2004	D	+7.4%	1,733	1,489	3,303
2000	R	−4.4%	1,171	1,295	2,820
1996	D	+6.3%	1,169	1,010	2,529
1992	D	+4.9%	1,005	878	2,618
1988	D	+0.1%	1,080	1,078	2,184
1984	R	−3.8%	1,129	1,219	2,361
1980	R	−12.2%	871	1,147	2,266
1976	R	−0.8%	1,018	1,034	2,130
1972	R	−16.8%	742	1,047	1,817
1968	R	−4.4%	777	853	1,729
1964	D	+12.2%	976	764	1,742
1960	R	−20.5%	650	987	1,641
1956	R	−23.5%	668	1,078	1,748
1952	R	−30.5%	503	946	1,454
1948	D	+1.0%	688	674	1,406
1944	D	+3.0%	545	513	1,066
1940	D	+1.0%	686	673	1,366
1936	D	+33.7%	793	387	1,204
1932	D	+7.7%	492	418	966
1928	R	−46.5%	219	609	839
1924	R	−63.8%	29	471	693
1920	R	−57.6%	98	467	641
1916	D	+10.2%	162	125	363
1912	D	+10.1%	65	30	348
1908	R	−65.1%	42	255	327
1904	R	−70.4%	31	207	250
1900	R	−10.4%	65	81	154
1896	D	+13.5%	107	81	192
1892	D	+37.1%	68	19	132
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

1.0%

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: 53.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

2.3%

4.2%

75–84

4.2%

10.3%

65–74

9.3%

7.8%

55–64

8.4%

5.6%

45–54

5.0%

5.6%

35–44

5.6%

4.8%

25–34

6.5%

2.4%

18–24

2.6%

5.0%

5–17

5.6%

2.2%

1.7%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$72,638

Cook County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Cook County$72,638

Minnesota$89,062

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

10.2%

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

Mainline Protestant

16.8%

Catholic & Orthodox

8.1%

Other Christian

5.4%

Pentecostal & Holiness

0.2%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 69.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Cook County's vast wilderness and small, dispersed population have long produced lopsided Democratic margins — its 2024 result of D+34.8 makes it one of Minnesota's most reliably left-leaning rural counties, an unusual pattern in nonurban America.

The Democratic margin in Cook County peaked at thirty-seven points in 1892. By 2004 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was thirty-five points, the most Democratic-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Cook County's median household income of $72,638 sits well below state and national norms, and 10% 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 Juneau City and Borough and Whatcom County.

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Juneau City and Borough

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