Fisher County, Texas

2024 results by precinct

4 precincts · 1,834 votes cast

Trump · R+63

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−63.1%	330	1,487	1,834
2020	R	−60.0%	352	1,448	1,826
2016	R	−49.9%	403	1,265	1,729
2012	R	−35.7%	512	1,094	1,629
2008	R	−22.2%	687	1,083	1,784
2004	R	−21.0%	758	1,161	1,923
2000	R	−4.5%	884	968	1,872
1996	D	+32.7%	1,142	537	1,849
1992	D	+31.6%	1,242	539	2,225
1988	D	+35.5%	1,516	721	2,240
1984	D	+17.8%	1,384	965	2,357
1980	D	+29.8%	1,564	838	2,437
1976	D	+55.1%	1,993	573	2,576
1972	R	−12.8%	933	1,207	2,147
1968	D	+42.1%	1,560	555	2,385
1964	D	+64.4%	2,108	454	2,567
1960	D	+48.5%	1,966	679	2,655
1956	D	+42.3%	1,664	673	2,343
1952	D	+19.2%	1,405	952	2,359
1948	D	+83.8%	2,063	149	2,285
1944	D	+80.9%	2,041	154	2,332
1940	D	+83.5%	2,260	199	2,467
1936	D	+85.8%	2,068	155	2,229
1932	D	+85.7%	1,395	105	1,506
1928	R	−20.1%	837	1,259	2,096
1924	D	+67.1%	1,653	302	2,013
1920	D	+59.5%	743	152	994
1916	D	+73.4%	950	46	1,231
1912	D	+75.7%	572	21	728
1908	—	No data	—	—	—
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	—	No data	—	—	—
1896	—	No data	—	—	—
1892	—	No data	—	—	—
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	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

2.7%

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: 40.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.2%

85+

1.8%

1.9%

75–84

2.8%

6.5%

65–74

6.8%

7.4%

55–64

5.1%

5.9%

45–54

5.0%

6.3%

35–44

7.3%

8.2%

25–34

7.4%

1.3%

18–24

2.4%

9.1%

5–17

7.6%

3.2%

2.8%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$65,533

Fisher County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Fisher County$65,533

Texas$78,476

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

13.7%

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

Baptist

59.8%

Catholic & Orthodox

14.7%

Methodist

9.6%

Other Christian

5.7%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.5%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 7.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Fisher County's 4,300 residents are spread across rolling plains once dominated by cattle drives, and its lopsided presidential margins — R+63 in 2024 — reflect a rural demographic pattern consistent across much of the Texas Panhandle fringe.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Fisher County peaked at eighty-six points in 1936; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2000 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of four points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Fisher County's median household income of $65,533 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Foard County and Newton County.

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For eighty-four years, Fisher County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.