akashic
1876–2024
Grant County, Minnesota
Grant County·Minnesota

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

A sparsely settled prairie county where Republicans routinely run 30 points ahead

18762024·38 elections
Grant County, Minnesota · Gobonobo · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+30
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
6,127
2024 ACS
Most similar
Rusk County
WI · similarity 0.99
23 precincts · 3,543 votes cast
Trump · R+30
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−30.5%
1,1872,2663,543
2020R
−26.5%
1,3002,2693,654
2016R
−27.6%
1,1052,0633,473
2012R
−2.9%
1,6471,7483,487
2008D
+5.7%
1,8501,6463,605
2004R
−1.0%
1,8561,8933,819
2000R
−8.2%
1,5071,8043,624
1996D
+14.7%
1,8061,2843,562
1992D
+9.8%
1,5611,2013,666
1988D
+7.0%
1,9501,6933,677
1984R
−6.1%
1,8672,1113,995
1980R
−5.4%
1,8222,0544,272
1976D
+22.8%
2,6241,6354,338
1972D
+4.6%
2,0851,8994,054
1968D
+1.3%
1,9821,9294,095
1964D
+20.5%
2,6311,7344,366
1960D
+2.1%
2,3332,2394,576
1956D
+1.0%
2,1072,0644,177
1952R
−19.5%
1,7912,6654,478
1948D
+13.4%
2,3781,7894,388
1944D
+1.8%
1,9691,8983,879
1940R
−3.2%
2,2912,4434,764
1936D
+19.4%
2,3581,5664,075
1932D
+39.5%
2,7021,1483,935
1928R
−9.8%
1,6872,0573,786
1924R
−45.7%
1181,6743,402
1920R
−59.2%
5332,4273,202
1916R
−5.6%
7788781,785
1912D
+15.1%
3811461,560
1908R
−46.1%
3761,0991,569
1904R
−80.3%
1021,2091,379
1900R
−37.5%
4561,0621,615
1896R
−14.8%
7391,0021,780
1892D
+32.6%
7763191,402
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
Mainline Protestant
55.7%
Other Christian
16.5%
Catholic & Orthodox
7.4%
Methodist
1.6%
Pentecostal & Holiness
0.4%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 18.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Grant County's roughly 6,300 residents are spread across glacially flattened farmland in west-central Minnesota, producing consistently lopsided Republican margins in statewide and federal races that have widened over the past decade.

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

Grant County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $73,917, a 94% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 6,127 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 Rusk County and Barron County.