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1876–2024
Iredell County, North Carolina
Iredell County·North Carolina

Iredell County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.

A fast-growing Piedmont county where suburban expansion hasn't softened a deep-red lean

18762024·38 elections
Iredell County, North Carolina · Upstateherd · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+33
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
196,544
2024 ACS
Most similar
Moore County
NC · similarity 1.00
30 precincts · 110,875 votes cast
Trump · R+33
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−32.5%
36,73972,801110,875
2020R
−32.4%
33,88867,010102,371
2016R
−36.4%
24,73454,75482,567
2012R
−30.4%
26,07649,29976,365
2008R
−24.4%
27,31845,14873,162
2004R
−36.2%
18,06538,67556,973
2000D
+31.6%
29,85315,43445,586
1996R
−21.5%
13,10221,16337,409
1992R
−15.8%
13,26319,41138,980
1988R
−34.2%
10,53021,53632,135
1984R
−40.5%
9,99923,64133,704
1980R
−10.3%
12,06714,92627,794
1976D
+6.9%
13,29511,57325,131
1972R
−51.4%
5,08816,73622,682
1968R
−23.2%
4,87810,55724,456
1964R
−6.9%
11,23112,89224,123
1960R
−14.8%
8,97312,08521,058
1956R
−20.9%
7,28611,12518,411
1952R
−15.8%
8,58011,80420,384
1948D
+10.9%
5,7614,44112,136
1944D
+26.4%
8,3584,86413,222
1940D
+46.0%
10,3283,82014,148
1936D
+49.5%
11,3083,81715,125
1932D
+39.9%
8,3673,58312,005
1928R
−16.2%
4,8366,71211,548
1924D
+28.4%
6,4493,56510,150
1920D
+19.0%
6,4704,40210,872
1916D
+23.3%
3,3352,0735,408
1912D
+53.8%
2,5283923,969
1908D
+15.5%
2,4651,8034,274
1904D
+16.8%
2,1261,5103,676
1900D
+10.3%
2,5232,0444,645
1896D
+19.2%
2,9582,0034,976
1892D
+16.9%
2,2821,5244,494
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
9.0%
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.
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
14.6%
Other Christian
11.8%
Catholic & Orthodox
10.5%
Methodist
10.2%
Mainline Protestant
2.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
2.3%
Non-Christian
1.8%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 46.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Iredell sits at the northern edge of the Charlotte metro, drawing steady population from the region's spillover growth while maintaining one of the wider Republican presidential margins among North Carolina's mid-sized counties.

The shift began with civil rights. 2004 marked the realignment in Iredell County, by a thirty-six points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at fifty-one points in 1972. The 2024 margin was thirty-three points.

The political shift has tracked, in Iredell County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 74% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $81,419, and a 10% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Moore County and Catawba County.