Cheyenne County, Colorado

2024 results by precinct

5 precincts · 1,055 votes cast

Trump · R+78

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−77.9%	108	930	1,055
2020	R	−75.9%	131	993	1,136
2016	R	−72.0%	132	925	1,102
2012	R	−65.6%	172	889	1,093
2008	R	−62.3%	198	890	1,111
2004	R	−63.9%	198	923	1,134
2000	R	−61.7%	209	957	1,212
1996	R	−34.9%	328	739	1,176
1992	R	−25.9%	301	615	1,212
1988	R	−30.4%	399	760	1,186
1984	R	−48.0%	307	892	1,218
1980	R	−39.9%	322	816	1,239
1976	D	+1.2%	625	610	1,267
1972	R	−32.3%	400	815	1,286
1968	R	−22.8%	392	664	1,192
1964	D	+14.8%	735	545	1,283
1960	R	−31.5%	419	806	1,227
1956	R	−23.6%	507	820	1,329
1952	R	−32.1%	515	1,004	1,522
1948	R	−4.0%	657	713	1,386
1944	R	−21.6%	594	923	1,521
1940	R	−9.3%	758	915	1,681
1936	D	+8.0%	903	767	1,710
1932	D	+15.6%	1,042	746	1,893
1928	R	−30.1%	500	945	1,480
1924	R	−40.7%	236	875	1,571
1920	R	−37.0%	358	840	1,301
1916	D	+16.8%	802	558	1,454
1912	D	+20.1%	507	237	1,342
1908	R	−13.9%	331	445	819
1904	R	−34.5%	69	145	220
1900	R	−13.7%	97	128	227
1896	D	+8.9%	104	87	191
1892	R	−66.7%	0	102	153
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%

Polish

1.6%

African American

1.4%

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: 42.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.2%

85+

0.9%

2.0%

75–84

2.1%

7.6%

65–74

6.9%

6.8%

55–64

9.8%

5.3%

45–54

4.0%

10.3%

35–44

8.1%

5.4%

25–34

3.3%

3.0%

18–24

2.2%

9.0%

5–17

8.1%

2.6%

2.5%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$70,865

Cheyenne County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Cheyenne County$70,865

Colorado$95,470

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

8.2%

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

26.0%

Other Christian

12.5%

Mainline Protestant

7.3%

Methodist

4.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 50.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Cheyenne County sits on Colorado's eastern plains with a population under 2,500, and its agricultural economy and sparse settlement have produced some of the state's most consistent and wide Republican presidential margins for decades.

The Democratic margin in Cheyenne County peaked at twenty points in 1912. By 1980 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was seventy-eight points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Cheyenne County's median household income of $70,865 sits well below state and national norms, and 8% 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 Dallam County and Washington County.

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