Blair County, Pennsylvania

2024 results by precinct

93 precincts · 65,140 votes cast

Trump · R+43

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−43.3%	18,127	46,352	65,140
2020	R	−43.5%	17,636	45,306	63,595
2016	R	−45.5%	13,958	39,135	55,341
2012	R	−33.8%	16,276	33,319	50,365
2008	R	−24.3%	19,813	32,708	53,102
2004	R	−32.6%	18,105	35,751	54,178
2000	R	−27.9%	15,774	28,376	45,140
1996	R	−15.3%	15,036	21,282	40,691
1992	R	−14.7%	14,857	21,447	44,758
1988	R	−24.1%	15,588	25,623	41,662
1984	R	−31.5%	15,651	30,104	45,945
1980	R	−30.0%	15,014	28,931	46,359
1976	R	−20.9%	18,397	28,290	47,366
1972	R	−52.4%	10,023	33,126	44,110
1968	R	−26.9%	15,803	28,780	48,296
1964	D	+3.7%	26,157	24,301	50,531
1960	R	−28.9%	19,445	35,297	54,809
1956	R	−31.5%	17,503	33,623	51,191
1952	R	−31.1%	16,851	32,113	49,070
1948	R	−22.6%	14,050	22,382	36,886
1944	R	−16.1%	18,003	24,925	43,106
1940	R	−10.5%	21,573	26,639	48,337
1936	D	+4.4%	27,038	24,711	52,597
1932	R	−17.0%	13,709	19,553	34,335
1928	R	−47.6%	12,104	34,356	46,726
1924	R	−52.2%	4,244	20,313	30,808
1920	R	−35.5%	5,668	15,035	26,392
1916	R	−16.1%	7,002	9,893	17,935
1912	D	+5.6%	4,108	3,138	17,276
1908	R	−33.4%	4,981	10,583	16,796
1904	R	−51.8%	3,675	12,482	16,992
1900	R	−35.2%	4,528	9,749	14,814
1896	R	−35.0%	4,840	10,382	15,851
1892	R	−16.4%	5,265	7,407	13,052
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%

Italian

0.7%

African American

1.6%

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: 43.1 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

1.8%

2.6%

75–84

3.6%

6.0%

65–74

6.6%

7.0%

55–64

7.1%

6.1%

45–54

5.9%

6.0%

35–44

6.0%

6.2%

25–34

5.8%

4.3%

18–24

4.0%

7.8%

5–17

7.4%

2.5%

2.4%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$62,382

Blair County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Blair County$62,382

Pennsylvania$77,971

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

12.0%

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

12.5%

Other Christian

10.3%

Mainline Protestant

9.2%

Methodist

6.1%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.4%

Baptist

1.1%

Non-Christian

0.7%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 57.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Blair County, anchored by Altoona's post-industrial economy in the Allegheny ridges, has delivered Republican presidential margins exceeding 40 points in recent cycles, making it an outlier even within a state full of red-leaning rural counties.

The Democratic margin in Blair County peaked at six points in 1912. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was forty-three points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Blair County's median household income of $62,382 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 Potter County and Daviess County.

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