Dent County, Missouri

2024 results by precinct

8 precincts · 7,103 votes cast

Trump · R+70

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−70.2%	1,025	6,013	7,103
2020	R	−69.0%	1,056	5,987	7,142
2016	R	−68.1%	978	5,600	6,791
2012	R	−49.4%	1,585	4,883	6,671
2008	R	−37.8%	2,056	4,655	6,868
2004	R	−39.7%	1,865	4,369	6,304
2000	R	−36.0%	1,839	3,996	5,988
1996	R	−5.6%	2,234	2,542	5,538
1992	D	+9.6%	2,689	2,125	5,877
1988	R	−10.2%	2,421	2,975	5,417
1984	R	−15.7%	2,544	3,490	6,034
1980	R	−15.5%	2,528	3,477	6,131
1976	D	+9.2%	2,931	2,433	5,401
1972	R	−27.8%	1,710	3,024	4,734
1968	R	−12.0%	1,810	2,369	4,648
1964	D	+23.1%	2,860	1,788	4,648
1960	R	−10.7%	2,593	3,212	5,805
1956	D	+5.4%	2,961	2,658	5,619
1952	R	−0.3%	2,738	2,755	5,497
1948	D	+19.4%	2,973	2,003	4,990
1944	D	+4.7%	2,699	2,456	5,162
1940	D	+7.8%	3,101	2,652	5,766
1936	D	+15.5%	3,168	2,313	5,514
1932	D	+31.7%	3,293	1,701	5,017
1928	R	−11.6%	1,871	2,367	4,266
1924	D	+11.7%	2,263	1,779	4,153
1920	R	−5.5%	1,970	2,204	4,264
1916	D	+7.4%	1,457	1,252	2,783
1912	D	+12.9%	1,280	959	2,491
1908	D	+1.5%	1,330	1,290	2,663
1904	D	+1.3%	1,186	1,154	2,375
1900	D	+13.1%	1,419	1,085	2,540
1896	D	+15.2%	1,493	1,097	2,598
1892	D	+16.9%	1,268	896	2,197
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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 43.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.4%

85+

1.9%

2.6%

75–84

3.5%

6.3%

65–74

6.6%

7.5%

55–64

7.5%

6.1%

45–54

5.8%

5.9%

35–44

5.5%

5.1%

25–34

4.9%

3.5%

18–24

3.3%

8.8%

5–17

7.9%

2.9%

3.0%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$56,312

Dent County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Dent County$56,312

Missouri$70,702

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

12.2%

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

Baptist

24.7%

Other Christian

8.7%

Methodist

3.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.8%

Mainline Protestant

2.1%

Catholic & Orthodox

2.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 56.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Dent County, anchored by Salem in the Ozark highlands, posted an R+70.2 presidential margin in 2024—among the widest in a state already trending heavily toward one-party dominance in rural areas.

The Democratic margin in Dent County peaked at thirty-two points in 1932. By 1996 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was seventy points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Dent County's median household income of $56,312 sits well below state and national norms, and 12% 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 Atchison County and Stoddard County.

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