Baca County, Colorado

2024 results by precinct

9 precincts · 2,004 votes cast

Trump · R+70

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−70.4%	275	1,686	2,004
2020	R	−69.6%	317	1,866	2,224
2016	R	−68.3%	283	1,753	2,153
2012	R	−51.9%	467	1,559	2,106
2008	R	−47.6%	536	1,572	2,175
2004	R	−54.8%	483	1,680	2,186
2000	R	−49.7%	531	1,663	2,278
1996	R	−29.8%	659	1,321	2,219
1992	R	−19.6%	726	1,240	2,622
1988	R	−32.0%	851	1,670	2,556
1984	R	−52.7%	580	1,903	2,509
1980	R	−53.8%	551	1,999	2,692
1976	R	−5.5%	1,164	1,303	2,507
1972	R	−50.2%	527	1,645	2,225
1968	R	−28.8%	719	1,441	2,504
1964	D	+4.8%	1,366	1,241	2,618
1960	R	−31.1%	952	1,815	2,772
1956	R	−19.6%	1,150	1,715	2,876
1952	R	−31.8%	1,094	2,122	3,236
1948	D	+4.1%	1,368	1,260	2,652
1944	R	−23.8%	941	1,528	2,469
1940	R	−14.4%	1,167	1,567	2,772
1936	D	+15.6%	1,797	1,288	3,264
1932	D	+22.6%	2,247	1,349	3,965
1928	R	−59.0%	524	2,108	2,686
1924	R	−20.6%	653	1,174	2,533
1920	R	−36.0%	695	1,615	2,555
1916	D	+19.8%	1,294	826	2,358
1912	D	+9.9%	430	318	1,126
1908	R	−9.0%	179	215	402
1904	R	−21.8%	130	203	335
1900	R	−7.9%	134	157	291
1896	D	+3.8%	135	125	262
1892	R	−47.7%	0	157	329
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%

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

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: 43.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.5%

85+

2.5%

3.8%

75–84

4.6%

6.3%

65–74

7.0%

5.8%

55–64

7.2%

4.7%

45–54

5.2%

6.9%

35–44

6.6%

6.7%

25–34

4.4%

1.8%

18–24

2.6%

9.2%

5–17

8.1%

2.7%

2.5%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$46,215

Baca County ranks in the bottom 10% of US counties.

Baca County$46,215

Colorado$95,470

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

24.6%

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

Pentecostal & Holiness

9.5%

Methodist

6.8%

Other Christian

4.1%

Catholic & Orthodox

3.4%

Baptist

1.5%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 74.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Baca County sits in Colorado's remote southeastern corner, where a sparse, ranching-dominated economy and one of the state's smallest populations combine to produce presidential margins that routinely rank among the widest in the state.

The Democratic margin in Baca County peaked at twenty-three points in 1932. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was seventy points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Baca County's median household income of $46,215 sits well below state and national norms, and 25% 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 Morrill County and Kit Carson County.

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