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1876–2024
Gooding County, Idaho
Gooding County·Idaho

Gooding County has voted Republican for as long as anyone can remember.

A high-desert ranching county where Republicans routinely top 80% of the vote

18762024·38 elections
Gooding County, Idaho · NPS photo · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+60
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
15,931
2024 ACS
Most similar
Washington County
ID · similarity 1.00
6 precincts · 5,918 votes cast
Trump · R+60
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−60.4%
1,1004,6765,918
2020R
−56.2%
1,2564,6596,050
2016R
−54.2%
9303,7435,191
2012R
−47.1%
1,2873,6965,118
2008R
−42.2%
1,4893,7655,391
2004R
−50.6%
1,2783,9735,325
2000R
−44.2%
1,2823,5025,026
1996R
−22.0%
1,5032,6375,166
1992R
−11.6%
1,5302,1785,564
1988R
−21.2%
1,8722,9084,876
1984R
−50.2%
1,2473,8195,119
1980R
−42.4%
1,4813,8975,695
1976R
−19.8%
1,9232,9094,969
1972R
−47.4%
1,0303,1244,417
1968R
−31.5%
1,0182,3494,228
1964R
−15.5%
1,8482,5274,375
1960R
−11.4%
2,0052,5234,528
1956R
−22.8%
1,7832,8354,618
1952R
−42.1%
1,4043,4524,860
1948R
−6.7%
1,8442,1114,015
1944R
−10.5%
1,6592,0493,716
1940R
−10.1%
1,9192,3524,275
1936D
+16.1%
2,1001,5053,705
1932D
+13.0%
1,9111,4513,540
1928R
−38.3%
8211,8522,689
1924R
−28.0%
4221,0972,415
1920R
−40.8%
7891,8782,667
1916R
−0.2%
1,0891,0932,297
1912
No data
1908
No data
1904
No data
1900
No data
1896
No data
1892
No data
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%.
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.
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
15.5%
Catholic & Orthodox
4.9%
Methodist
2.0%
Mainline Protestant
1.6%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.4%
Baptist
0.7%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 73.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Gooding's economy anchors on agriculture and dairy along the Snake River Plain, and its small, rural electorate has delivered Republican presidential margins above 60 points in each of the last several cycles.

The Republican margin in Gooding County reached its widest at sixty points in 2024. The margin in 2024 was sixty points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Gooding County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $63,559, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 15,931 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Washington County and Prowers County.