Yoakum County, Texas

2024 results by precinct

6 precincts · 2,397 votes cast

Trump · R+71

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−70.8%	342	2,039	2,397
2020	R	−66.5%	420	2,174	2,636
2016	R	−59.5%	426	1,797	2,303
2012	R	−60.6%	409	1,698	2,128
2008	R	−62.6%	450	1,989	2,458
2004	R	−70.9%	376	2,228	2,613
2000	R	−56.0%	531	1,911	2,465
1996	R	−30.4%	738	1,485	2,454
1992	R	−34.6%	595	1,486	2,575
1988	R	−41.3%	727	1,762	2,507
1984	R	−65.5%	456	2,204	2,668
1980	R	−45.4%	715	1,937	2,694
1976	R	−11.0%	1,181	1,477	2,680
1972	R	−61.2%	457	1,952	2,443
1968	R	−20.6%	615	1,123	2,462
1964	D	+24.4%	1,415	859	2,280
1960	R	−9.6%	994	1,207	2,215
1956	D	+3.4%	989	923	1,915
1952	D	+0.9%	873	858	1,733
1948	D	+72.7%	861	119	1,020
1944	D	+64.4%	646	106	839
1940	D	+73.7%	885	134	1,019
1936	D	+87.3%	227	13	245
1932	D	+91.1%	245	11	257
1928	R	−13.2%	66	86	152
1924	D	+76.8%	95	9	112
1920	D	+97.5%	79	0	81
1916	D	+96.6%	85	1	87
1912	D	+81.6%	40	0	49
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%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 32.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.1%

85+

1.2%

2.4%

75–84

2.3%

3.3%

65–74

3.5%

6.0%

55–64

4.3%

7.1%

45–54

7.2%

4.1%

35–44

4.0%

5.6%

25–34

6.3%

5.8%

18–24

4.1%

11.5%

5–17

11.2%

7.3%

2.9%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$84,925

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

Yoakum County$84,925

Texas$78,476

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

16.8%

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

42.1%

Baptist

19.7%

Other Christian

15.6%

Methodist

10.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.8%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 9.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Yoakum County, anchored by the oil-patch town of Plains, recorded a 70-point Republican presidential margin in 2024 — a figure consistent with its sparse, extraction-economy landscape and overwhelmingly rural demographics on the New Mexico border.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Yoakum County peaked at ninety-eight points in 1920; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 1968 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of twenty-one points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Yoakum County's median household income of $84,925 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Andrews County and Kingfisher County.

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For fifty-two years, Yoakum County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.