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North Dakota

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President margin by year

Place winner margin

1892–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1892 → 2024

2024StatewideR+36.4

53 counties by 2024 margin · County presidential returns

County results53 areas · 2024 President vote · select an area for its full record

SiouxD+38.7Dem 654Rep 285Other 14Total 953RoletteD+28.0Dem 2,567Rep 1,427Other 81Total 4,075CassR+8.3Dem 40,304Rep 47,873Other 2,674Total 90,851Grand ForksR+18.0Dem 12,469Rep 18,123Other 819Total 31,411BensonR+18.4Dem 795Rep 1,163Other 44Total 2,002SteeleR+25.1Dem 367Rep 622Other 26Total 1,015RansomR+28.0Dem 920Rep 1,661Other 68Total 2,649TraillR+31.4Dem 1,359Rep 2,650Other 106Total 4,115NelsonR+31.9Dem 580Rep 1,141Other 40Total 1,761SargentR+32.4Dem 663Rep 1,325Other 55Total 2,043BarnesR+35.0Dem 1,661Rep 3,531Other 147Total 5,339RichlandR+37.6Dem 2,473Rep 5,576Other 212Total 8,261RamseyR+40.0Dem 1,513Rep 3,609Other 117Total 5,239BurleighR+42.8Dem 14,215Rep 36,595Other 1,453Total 52,263MountrailR+43.0Dem 1,125Rep 2,877Other 71Total 4,073StutsmanR+44.3Dem 2,692Rep 7,185Other 257Total 10,134WalshR+44.8Dem 1,173Rep 3,186Other 137Total 4,496EddyR+45.3Dem 316Rep 862Other 27Total 1,205TownerR+45.5Dem 289Rep 796Other 29Total 1,114WardR+47.0Dem 7,215Rep 20,635Other 702Total 28,552CavalierR+48.8Dem 491Rep 1,461Other 35Total 1,987GriggsR+51.4Dem 301Rep 963Other 25Total 1,289DickeyR+51.9Dem 557Rep 1,829Other 67Total 2,453PembinaR+52.9Dem 704Rep 2,350Other 58Total 3,112MortonR+53.4Dem 3,748Rep 12,839Other 449Total 17,036PierceR+53.5Dem 439Rep 1,493Other 38Total 1,970LaMoureR+54.7Dem 453Rep 1,614Other 56Total 2,123BottineauR+54.9Dem 735Rep 2,628Other 84Total 3,447DivideR+55.0Dem 253Rep 914Other 34Total 1,201McLeanR+57.9Dem 1,093Rep 4,231Other 97Total 5,421FosterR+58.2Dem 335Rep 1,326Other 42Total 1,703AdamsR+62.2Dem 215Rep 962Other 24Total 1,201WellsR+62.6Dem 405Rep 1,815Other 33Total 2,253McHenryR+63.4Dem 479Rep 2,223Other 50Total 2,752KidderR+64.3Dem 238Rep 1,137Other 23Total 1,398McIntoshR+65.0Dem 229Rep 1,132Other 29Total 1,390StarkR+65.2Dem 2,473Rep 12,323Other 304Total 15,100GrantR+66.7Dem 205Rep 1,076Other 25Total 1,306RenvilleR+67.4Dem 179Rep 993Other 36Total 1,208WilliamsR+67.6Dem 2,276Rep 12,501Other 345Total 15,122MercerR+68.6Dem 672Rep 3,798Other 85Total 4,555HettingerR+68.7Dem 192Rep 1,089Other 25Total 1,306DunnR+68.9Dem 332Rep 1,877Other 33Total 2,242McKenzieR+69.2Dem 809Rep 4,627Other 85Total 5,521OliverR+69.3Dem 156Rep 909Other 22Total 1,087BillingsR+69.6Dem 93Rep 543Other 11Total 647SheridanR+71.7Dem 101Rep 644Other 12Total 757BowmanR+72.7Dem 207Rep 1,384Other 27Total 1,618Golden ValleyR+73.2Dem 122Rep 847Other 22Total 991BurkeR+73.8Dem 130Rep 909Other 17Total 1,056LoganR+75.6Dem 117Rep 898Other 18Total 1,033EmmonsR+77.3Dem 205Rep 1,697Other 28Total 1,930SlopeR+81.7Dem 33Rep 351Other 5Total 389

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

German34.5%12.5%

Norwegian20.3%—

Irish7.3%9.4%

English5.1%9.5%

Swedish3.2%—

American2.9%5.3%

French2.3%1.6%

Polish1.6%2.2%

Mexican2.8%11.3%

Puerto Rican0.5%1.8%

Spaniard0.2%—

Turtle Mountain Chippewa0.6%—

African American†1.6%9.9%

African0.5%0.5%

Liberian0.4%—

Nigerian0.2%0.2%

Filipino0.3%0.9%

Asian Indian0.2%1.4%

Chinese0.2%1.3%

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	North Dakota	United States
Median age	36.4	39.1
Age 18–24	11.1%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	16.5%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	North Dakota	United States
Median household income	$76,657	$84,427
Poverty rate	10.8%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	32.9%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	North Dakota	United States
Owner-occupied homes	62.9%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	37.1%	34.8%
Median home value	$249,900	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	$954	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	38.9%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	12.3%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	North Dakota	United States
Mean commute	17.9 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	4.7%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	77.9%	68.8%
Takes public transit	0.3%	3.2%
Works from home	8.1%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	North Dakota	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	6.7%	22.3%
Spanish	2.3%	13.6%
Other languages	1.2%	0.8%

Religious landscape

Measure	North Dakota	United States
Catholic	21.1%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	10.8%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	45.0%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	21.0%	5.2%

Origins and service

Measure	North Dakota	United States
Foreign-born residents	4.7%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	1.9%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	2.8%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	7.1%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	0.457	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083).

President results by year

2024 turnout 63.9% of 581,737 citizens 18+

HarrisDemocratic30.5%112,327TrumpRepublican67.0%246,505OliverLibertarian1.7%6,227

R+36.4

Lead: 134,178
Total: 368,155
vs nation: R+35.0
Turnout: 63.9%

BidenDemocratic31.8%115,042TrumpRepublican65.1%235,751JorgensenLibertarian2.6%9,393

R+33.3

Lead: 120,709
Total: 362,024
vs nation: R+37.8
Turnout: 64.5%

ClintonDemocratic27.2%93,758TrumpRepublican63.0%216,794JohnsonLibertarian6.2%21,434

R+35.7

Lead: 123,036
Total: 344,360
vs nation: R+37.8
Turnout: 63.0%

ObamaDemocratic38.7%124,827RomneyRepublican58.3%188,163JohnsonLibertarian1.6%5,238

R+19.6

Lead: 63,336
Total: 322,627
vs nation: R+23.5
Turnout: —

ObamaDemocratic44.6%141,278MccainRepublican53.2%168,561NaderIndependent1.3%4,189

R+8.6

Lead: 27,283
Total: 316,581
vs nation: R+15.9
Turnout: —

KerryDemocratic35.5%111,052BushRepublican62.9%196,651NaderIndependent1.2%3,756

R+27.4

Lead: 85,599
Total: 312,833
vs nation: R+24.9
Turnout: —

GoreDemocratic33.1%95,284BushRepublican60.7%174,852OtherAll other candidates3.6%10,470

R+27.6

Lead: 79,568
Total: 288,267
vs nation: R+28.1
Turnout: —

ClintonDemocratic40.1%106,905DoleRepublican46.9%125,050PerotReform Party12.2%32,515

R+6.8

Lead: 18,145
Total: 266,411
vs nation: R+15.3
Turnout: —

North Dakota is among the most Republican states in the country, and 2024 set its widest presidential margin in at least nine cycles — Donald Trump by 36.4 points (R+36.4), past the R+35.7 of 2016 and the R+33.3 of 2020. It has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1968. The map is nearly uniform: of the state’s 53 counties, Trump carried 51, and many by enormous margins — Slope County at R+81.7, Emmons at R+77.3, the Bakken oil counties of McKenzie at R+69.2 and Williams at R+67.6. Even Fargo’s Cass County, the largest and closest, went R+8.3.

The two exceptions are the Native American reservations, and they have held the same way for cycles. Sioux County — Standing Rock, where the 2016 pipeline protests drew thousands — gave Kamala Harris a 38.7-point margin (D+38.7), the widest Democratic result in the state; its population is 83.2 percent American Indian and other single-race residents by the 2024 ACS, with a poverty rate of 43.3 percent. Rolette County — Turtle Mountain, 75.9 percent the same and one in five reporting Turtle Mountain Chippewa ancestry — went D+28.0. Both have voted Democratic in 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024, the lone blue marks on an otherwise Republican map.

The profile underneath is white, agricultural, and young. White residents are 81.7 percent of the state, the largest ancestries German (34.5 percent) and Norwegian (20.3 percent), a legacy of Northern Plains homesteading; American Indian and other single-race residents add 4.7 percent statewide, concentrated on the reservations. The median age is 36.4, fourth-youngest of the fifty states, held down by the oil-and-gas boom that pulled young workers to the western Bakken. Median household income is $76,657, just under the U.S. $80,734, with poverty at 10.8 percent. In 2026 the at-large U.S. House seat is the only federal race: Julie Fedorchak (R) faces Trygve Hammer (D) in a rematch of 2024.

current representation

Current officeholders

RKelly ArmstrongGovernor

RMichelle StrindenLieutenant Governor

RMichael HoweSecretary of State

RDrew WrigleyAttorney General

RJosh GallionState Auditor

RThomas BeadleState Treasurer

RDoug GoehringAgriculture Commissioner

RJon GodfreadInsurance Commissioner

RBrian KroshusTax Commissioner

OLevi BachmeierSuperintendent of Public Instruction

RRandy ChristmannPublic Service Commissioner

RSheri Haugen-HoffartPublic Service Commissioner

RJill KringstadPublic Service Commissioner

RKevin CramerU.S. Senate+0.40

RJohn HoevenU.S. Senate+0.40

U.S. House1 seat · R 1

RND-01Julie Fedorchak

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / state SoS); U.S. delegation from Voteview HSall_members.csv.

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