Granite County, Montana

2024 results by precinct

4 precincts · 2,176 votes cast

Trump · R+44

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−44.0%	579	1,537	2,176
2020	R	−37.2%	638	1,419	2,102
2016	R	−40.5%	472	1,192	1,777
2012	R	−33.7%	533	1,107	1,705
2008	R	−24.0%	601	1,013	1,715
2004	R	−46.1%	404	1,144	1,605
2000	R	−55.7%	295	1,181	1,590
1996	R	−21.6%	429	733	1,407
1992	R	−15.0%	358	556	1,322
1988	R	−21.0%	511	789	1,326
1984	R	−35.0%	417	880	1,322
1980	R	−27.1%	439	811	1,371
1976	R	−18.6%	509	746	1,272
1972	R	−29.6%	422	804	1,291
1968	R	−9.8%	502	626	1,263
1964	D	+11.0%	658	527	1,187
1960	R	−9.8%	592	722	1,323
1956	R	−25.4%	533	896	1,429
1952	R	−32.1%	473	923	1,401
1948	R	−7.3%	567	659	1,268
1944	R	−9.9%	574	702	1,288
1940	D	+7.8%	917	784	1,710
1936	D	+43.6%	1,227	475	1,724
1932	D	+22.2%	855	536	1,439
1928	R	−24.9%	509	849	1,366
1924	R	−17.1%	353	582	1,339
1920	R	−34.5%	439	949	1,478
1916	D	+16.1%	812	574	1,479
1912	D	+17.0%	346	195	889
1908	D	+12.7%	485	369	912
1904	R	−4.7%	521	576	1,166
1900	D	+43.1%	1,020	401	1,435
1896	D	+92.9%	1,746	61	1,814
1892	—	No data	—	—	—
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: 53.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

0.9%

6.1%

75–84

5.2%

9.9%

65–74

8.5%

55–64

8.1%

6.7%

45–54

4.9%

4.6%

35–44

6.2%

4.5%

25–34

3.2%

3.5%

18–24

3.8%

5.0%

5–17

5.4%

1.3%

2.9%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$59,265

Granite County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Granite County$59,265

Montana$72,509

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

Catholic & Orthodox

10.8%

Other Christian

10.0%

Mainline Protestant

1.0%

Methodist

0.7%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 77.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Granite County sits in the Flint Creek Range with an economy historically rooted in mining and ranching. Its small, dispersed population has delivered some of Montana's widest presidential margins for over two decades.

The Democratic margin in Granite County peaked at ninety-three points in 1896. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was forty-four points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Granite County's median household income of $59,265 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 Flathead County and Douglas County.

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