Harding County, South Dakota

2024 results by precinct

8 precincts · 820 votes cast

Trump · R+86

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−86.1%	48	754	820
2020	R	−86.0%	49	748	813
2016	R	−85.3%	38	695	770
2012	R	−75.2%	82	638	739
2008	R	−59.9%	135	575	734
2004	R	−74.8%	94	704	815
2000	D	+80.2%	650	64	731
1996	R	−49.2%	151	537	785
1992	R	−42.7%	139	515	881
1988	R	−41.6%	259	633	900
1984	R	−58.9%	186	723	912
1980	R	−53.6%	205	727	974
1976	R	−1.2%	459	470	945
1972	R	−43.1%	253	637	890
1968	R	−33.3%	266	564	895
1964	R	−0.2%	487	489	976
1960	R	−27.8%	382	676	1,058
1956	R	−26.7%	376	650	1,026
1952	R	−46.7%	294	809	1,103
1948	R	−4.8%	479	529	1,040
1944	R	−5.6%	493	552	1,045
1940	R	−6.0%	670	755	1,425
1936	D	+21.3%	819	524	1,382
1932	D	+6.2%	715	625	1,444
1928	R	−46.8%	368	1,032	1,418
1924	R	−52.6%	107	702	1,131
1920	R	−39.2%	213	648	1,109
1916	R	−6.2%	520	597	1,251
1912	D	+29.5%	325	0	1,102
1908	—	No data	—	—	—
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	—	No data	—	—	—
1896	—	No data	—	—	—
1892	—	No data	—	—	—
1888	—	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%

African American

1.2%

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: 46.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.1%

85+

0.5%

1.3%

75–84

1.0%

8.7%

65–74

9.1%

9.8%

55–64

7.2%

7.1%

45–54

6.8%

5.9%

35–44

4.8%

4.6%

25–34

4.2%

2.4%

18–24

3.1%

12.5%

5–17

5.1%

3.3%

2.4%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$80,441

Harding County ranks in the top 25% of US counties.

Harding County$80,441

South Dakota$75,081

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

6.3%

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

31.7%

Catholic & Orthodox

26.5%

Methodist

1.4%

Pentecostal & Holiness

0.8%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 39.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Harding County sits in South Dakota's remote northwest corner, where ranching defines both the economy and the electorate. In 2024 it posted an R+86.1 margin, among the widest of any county in the country.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Harding County peaked at eighty points in 2000; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2004 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of seventy-five points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Harding County's median household income of $80,441 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Douglas County and Jones County.

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