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1876–2024
Warren County, Pennsylvania
Warren County·Pennsylvania

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

One of Pennsylvania's most Republican-leaning rural counties by margin

18762024·38 elections
Warren County, Pennsylvania · Pubdog · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+39
in 2024
Archetype
Populist
since the recent cycles
Population
37,920
2024 ACS
Most similar
Marshall County
IL · similarity 1.00
33 precincts · 20,792 votes cast
Trump · R+39
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−39.1%
6,21214,34520,792
2020R
−39.6%
6,06614,23720,650
2016R
−39.4%
5,14512,47718,606
2012R
−17.4%
6,99510,01017,299
2008R
−6.2%
8,5379,68518,517
2004R
−15.3%
8,04410,99919,273
2000R
−10.0%
7,5379,29017,552
1996D
+1.4%
7,2917,05617,067
1992D
+2.1%
6,9726,58518,426
1988R
−13.8%
6,7908,99115,995
1984R
−26.7%
6,24410,83817,221
1980R
−22.6%
5,5609,16515,974
1976R
−6.8%
7,4128,50816,170
1972R
−33.9%
4,87710,01815,167
1968R
−15.8%
6,3688,88915,968
1964D
+27.8%
10,5985,96516,657
1960R
−28.0%
6,52511,61118,195
1956R
−46.1%
4,46312,14516,651
1952R
−44.0%
4,44211,55516,150
1948R
−33.4%
4,1038,37812,814
1944R
−34.9%
4,4409,27613,853
1940R
−30.6%
5,82511,01616,942
1936R
−5.0%
8,4959,44018,767
1932R
−19.0%
5,2547,87213,753
1928R
−61.4%
2,83512,07715,056
1924R
−52.9%
2,1618,50211,986
1920R
−46.9%
2,1807,79111,974
1916R
−11.0%
2,6283,4137,141
1912D
+1.7%
1,6861,5647,258
1908R
−34.8%
2,0544,6727,532
1904R
−50.9%
1,2224,7376,908
1900R
−36.0%
2,5005,6098,645
1896R
−21.8%
3,0484,8468,255
1892R
−14.9%
2,7353,8387,394
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
0.8%
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.
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
Methodist
10.8%
Other Christian
9.1%
Catholic & Orthodox
8.1%
Mainline Protestant
6.0%
Baptist
2.0%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.7%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 62.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Warren County, anchored by the city of Warren along the Allegheny River, has shifted decisively rightward over the past decade. In 2024 it recorded an R+39.3 presidential margin, placing it among Pennsylvania's most lopsided counties.

The Democratic margin in Warren County peaked at twenty-eight points in 1964. By 2000 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was thirty-nine points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Warren County's median household income of $60,480 sits well below state and national norms, and 11% 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 Marshall County and Clinton County.