Toole County, Montana

2024 results by precinct

5 precincts · 2,046 votes cast

Trump · R+57

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−56.5%	415	1,571	2,046
2020	R	−53.3%	467	1,596	2,119
2016	R	−53.8%	402	1,497	2,037
2012	R	−40.8%	582	1,440	2,102
2008	R	−27.3%	737	1,317	2,121
2004	R	−38.6%	690	1,583	2,311
2000	R	−42.4%	630	1,639	2,378
1996	R	−13.3%	874	1,203	2,482
1992	R	−3.3%	854	943	2,717
1988	R	−16.5%	1,070	1,505	2,634
1984	R	−41.9%	789	1,949	2,768
1980	R	−47.9%	634	2,000	2,850
1976	R	−14.9%	1,080	1,469	2,603
1972	R	−27.8%	897	1,679	2,815
1968	R	−13.3%	1,048	1,407	2,708
1964	D	+14.8%	1,649	1,223	2,874
1960	D	+5.7%	1,767	1,577	3,348
1956	R	−13.8%	1,460	1,927	3,387
1952	R	−13.0%	1,426	1,853	3,294
1948	D	+23.0%	1,756	1,092	2,888
1944	D	+16.2%	1,545	1,113	2,668
1940	D	+23.1%	1,954	1,218	3,182
1936	D	+50.8%	2,120	654	2,884
1932	D	+36.7%	1,917	862	2,874
1928	R	−10.3%	1,076	1,325	2,422
1924	R	−13.9%	439	697	1,859
1920	R	−32.5%	405	861	1,405
1916	D	+19.1%	1,075	698	1,972
1912	—	No data	—	—	—
1908	—	No data	—	—	—
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	—	No data	—	—	—
1896	—	No data	—	—	—
1892	—	No data	—	—	—
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Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

Italian

0.6%

African American

1.4%

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

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: 37.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

0.6%

2.4%

75–84

2.8%

5.9%

65–74

5.5%

6.7%

55–64

5.9%

6.9%

45–54

3.9%

9.5%

35–44

5.1%

10.1%

25–34

4.9%

5.2%

18–24

2.8%

9.2%

5–17

6.3%

2.6%

2.9%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$57,731

Toole County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Toole County$57,731

Montana$72,509

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

12.6%

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

21.1%

Other Christian

15.5%

Catholic & Orthodox

5.9%

Baptist

3.8%

Methodist

2.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 50.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Toole County hugs the Canadian border along Montana's Hi-Line, where a sparse, agriculture-and-energy economy has produced some of the state's most lopsided presidential results for decades running.

The Democratic margin in Toole County peaked at fifty-one points in 1936. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was fifty-seven points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Toole County's median household income of $57,731 sits well below state and national norms, and 13% 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 Washington County and Bowman County.

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