Kiowa County, Colorado

2024 results by precinct

4 precincts · 863 votes cast

Trump · R+74

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−74.4%	102	744	863
2020	R	−77.2%	98	795	903
2016	R	−74.5%	91	728	855
2012	R	−68.1%	118	677	821
2008	R	−55.4%	178	650	852
2004	R	−60.5%	172	712	892
2000	R	−53.4%	211	728	968
1996	R	−34.2%	246	549	886
1992	R	−17.7%	290	472	1,030
1988	R	−23.5%	398	645	1,053
1984	R	−51.8%	265	850	1,130
1980	R	−36.5%	331	754	1,159
1976	R	−6.1%	529	598	1,137
1972	R	−38.2%	372	849	1,250
1968	R	−21.7%	423	689	1,224
1964	D	+9.5%	701	579	1,280
1960	R	−26.9%	498	865	1,364
1956	R	−29.3%	443	810	1,253
1952	R	−43.0%	412	1,047	1,478
1948	R	−6.9%	659	758	1,431
1944	R	−29.9%	522	970	1,498
1940	R	−24.3%	598	986	1,594
1936	D	+8.4%	918	772	1,732
1932	D	+17.5%	1,113	769	1,968
1928	R	−37.4%	458	1,024	1,515
1924	R	−22.1%	431	805	1,695
1920	R	−23.7%	521	864	1,449
1916	D	+11.7%	936	723	1,827
1912	D	+24.5%	638	273	1,490
1908	R	−7.5%	406	474	912
1904	R	−17.6%	124	180	318
1900	R	−2.4%	144	151	297
1896	D	+7.6%	155	133	290
1892	R	−53.5%	0	151	282
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: 45.4 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.5%

85+

1.7%

5.2%

75–84

2.8%

5.7%

65–74

6.2%

8.9%

55–64

12.2%

3.3%

45–54

3.9%

6.5%

35–44

5.7%

3.2%

25–34

6.0%

3.9%

18–24

2.5%

8.8%

5–17

8.6%

2.1%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$58,618

Kiowa County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Kiowa County$58,618

Colorado$95,470

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

11.8%

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

Other Christian

100.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

5.7%

Methodist

5.1%

Baptist

4.3%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 0.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Kiowa County sits on the shortgrass plains of southeastern Colorado, where cattle ranching defines the economy and a sparse, rural electorate has produced some of the state's widest presidential margins for decades.

The Democratic margin in Kiowa County peaked at twenty-four points in 1912. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was seventy-four points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Kiowa County's median household income of $58,618 sits well below state and national norms, and 12% 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 Garrard County and Yuma County.

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