Mesa County, Colorado

2024 results by precinct

67 precincts · 91,620 votes cast

Trump · R+24

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−24.3%	33,573	55,839	91,620
2020	R	−28.0%	31,533	56,888	90,613
2016	R	−36.1%	21,729	49,779	77,654
2012	R	−32.4%	23,846	47,472	72,947
2008	R	−29.5%	24,008	44,578	69,631
2004	R	−35.5%	19,564	41,539	61,885
2000	R	−33.2%	15,465	32,396	51,054
1996	R	−16.4%	17,114	24,761	46,612
1992	R	−6.8%	15,162	18,169	44,067
1988	R	−20.9%	14,372	22,150	37,155
1984	R	−40.5%	9,938	23,736	34,074
1980	R	−46.0%	7,549	22,686	32,916
1976	R	−33.3%	8,807	17,924	27,390
1972	R	−40.5%	6,358	15,527	22,613
1968	R	−9.1%	8,775	10,745	21,671
1964	D	+20.9%	12,716	8,317	21,082
1960	R	−17.8%	9,072	13,015	22,132
1956	R	−25.9%	7,567	12,869	20,496
1952	R	−26.5%	6,883	11,883	18,845
1948	D	+12.0%	8,401	6,586	15,185
1944	D	+1.6%	6,870	6,653	13,598
1940	D	+4.3%	7,694	7,049	14,912
1936	D	+33.6%	7,824	3,654	12,399
1932	D	+19.4%	6,682	4,388	11,807
1928	R	−32.9%	3,223	6,446	9,802
1924	R	−18.7%	2,388	4,053	8,902
1920	R	−6.6%	3,138	3,621	7,271
1916	D	+29.4%	4,394	2,223	7,395
1912	D	+22.5%	2,733	976	7,824
1908	R	−3.3%	2,824	3,049	6,795
1904	R	−25.8%	1,555	2,783	4,761
1900	D	+18.4%	1,968	1,317	3,534
1896	D	+64.2%	2,374	469	2,966
1892	R	−42.8%	0	529	1,237
1888	R	−5.8%	388	440	889
1884	R	−3.5%	329	353	687
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%.

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: 41.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.0%

85+

1.3%

2.8%

75–84

3.3%

6.0%

65–74

6.7%

6.2%

55–64

6.8%

5.6%

45–54

5.6%

6.7%

35–44

6.4%

25–34

6.2%

4.5%

18–24

4.1%

7.9%

5–17

7.6%

2.5%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$73,658

Mesa County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Mesa County$73,658

Colorado$95,470

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

10.7%

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

21.7%

Catholic & Orthodox

8.9%

Mainline Protestant

2.4%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.2%

Baptist

1.3%

Methodist

0.7%

Non-Christian

0.6%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 62.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Mesa County, centered on Grand Junction, has voted Republican in every presidential race for decades, with its energy-sector economy and rural geography reinforcing margins that routinely exceed 20 points.

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

The economic context is the key. Mesa County's median household income of $73,658 sits well below state and national norms, and 11% 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 Montrose County and Delta County.

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