Lincoln County, Colorado

2024 results by precinct

13 precincts · 2,571 votes cast

Trump · R+64

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−64.5%	432	2,090	2,571
2020	R	−62.8%	470	2,135	2,651
2016	R	−60.9%	409	1,892	2,436
2012	R	−49.6%	552	1,687	2,287
2008	R	−50.8%	546	1,717	2,304
2004	R	−56.3%	503	1,819	2,337
2000	R	−50.9%	510	1,630	2,199
1996	R	−24.6%	729	1,272	2,203
1992	R	−19.0%	640	1,079	2,306
1988	R	−21.4%	874	1,356	2,249
1984	R	−47.1%	587	1,661	2,278
1980	R	−39.4%	602	1,535	2,371
1976	R	−9.1%	1,059	1,276	2,387
1972	R	−41.4%	685	1,678	2,396
1968	R	−24.3%	809	1,407	2,465
1964	D	+9.1%	1,327	1,104	2,439
1960	R	−18.0%	1,041	1,498	2,542
1956	R	−22.6%	1,012	1,603	2,617
1952	R	−33.0%	927	1,843	2,773
1948	R	−1.6%	1,231	1,271	2,516
1944	R	−19.1%	1,147	1,689	2,839
1940	R	−19.9%	1,185	1,780	2,988
1936	D	+7.6%	1,660	1,420	3,163
1932	D	+14.9%	1,979	1,453	3,536
1928	R	−40.0%	888	2,110	3,053
1924	R	−33.6%	634	1,642	3,002
1920	R	−27.1%	1,013	1,815	2,963
1916	D	+19.2%	1,702	1,129	2,986
1912	D	+11.5%	796	534	2,281
1908	R	−15.4%	576	794	1,412
1904	R	−41.3%	132	323	462
1900	R	−34.4%	124	255	381
1896	D	+26.0%	210	123	335
1892	R	−64.6%	0	113	175
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%

Irish

0.6%

African American

4.4%

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: 40.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.2%

85+

2.0%

2.8%

75–84

2.9%

4.9%

65–74

4.5%

7.4%

55–64

5.4%

7.1%

45–54

4.9%

11.8%

35–44

6.2%

10.3%

25–34

4.0%

4.1%

18–24

3.1%

6.6%

5–17

6.3%

1.8%

2.6%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$62,861

Lincoln County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Lincoln County$62,861

Colorado$95,470

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

9.8%

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

17.4%

Other Christian

12.6%

Methodist

11.1%

Baptist

3.5%

Mainline Protestant

3.2%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.0%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 51.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

This high-plains ranching county of roughly 6,000 residents delivered a 64-point Republican margin in 2024, making it a consistent outlier even within Colorado's rural eastern corridor.

The Democratic margin in Lincoln County peaked at twenty-six points in 1896. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was sixty-four points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Lincoln County's median household income of $62,861 sits well below state and national norms, and 10% 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 Phillips County and Cheyenne County.

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