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1876–2024
Kootenai County, Idaho
Kootenai County·Idaho

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

Coeur d'Alene's home county posts some of Idaho's widest GOP margins

18762024·38 elections
Kootenai County, Idaho · Nancy Reilly Young · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+52
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
181,996
2024 ACS
Most similar
Washington County
KY · similarity 1.00
73 precincts · 96,340 votes cast
Trump · R+52
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−51.8%
22,11372,05996,340
2020R
−43.1%
24,31262,83789,467
2016R
−42.5%
16,26444,44966,286
2012R
−34.3%
18,85139,38159,828
2008R
−26.3%
22,12038,38761,932
2004R
−34.0%
17,58436,17354,603
2000R
−33.5%
13,48828,16243,812
1996R
−13.0%
13,62718,74039,186
1992R
−4.2%
11,55313,06536,328
1988R
−12.8%
11,62115,09327,130
1984R
−31.2%
9,00417,33026,689
1980R
−35.3%
7,52117,02226,912
1976R
−18.0%
7,22510,49318,159
1972R
−29.5%
5,1629,95816,238
1968R
−6.0%
6,2077,09214,771
1964D
+14.8%
8,2156,09614,311
1960D
+7.2%
7,7446,70414,448
1956R
−8.8%
6,1497,33013,479
1952R
−14.5%
5,4147,27212,774
1948D
+9.9%
5,2844,26510,262
1944D
+13.7%
5,7924,38810,222
1940D
+15.9%
5,9974,33310,462
1936D
+35.2%
5,7522,5868,999
1932D
+23.4%
4,7432,8138,262
1928R
−41.5%
2,0204,9737,114
1924R
−34.1%
7903,2897,335
1920R
−31.9%
1,8183,5185,336
1916D
+1.8%
2,8552,7416,422
1912D
+11.3%
2,5061,6907,200
1908R
−27.5%
2,2064,4078,010
1904R
−48.4%
1,1784,1656,166
1900D
+11.7%
1,8711,4723,417
1896D
+61.7%
1,4323341,779
1892R
−47.9%
07131,487
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
39.3%
Catholic & Orthodox
15.9%
Pentecostal & Holiness
5.7%
Mainline Protestant
1.8%
Baptist
0.7%
Methodist
0.2%
Non-Christian
0.1%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 36.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Anchored by Coeur d'Alene on the shores of its namesake lake, Kootenai has drawn steady in-migration from the Pacific Northwest, yet its presidential margins have widened each cycle, reaching R+51.8 in 2024.

The Republican margin in Kootenai County reached its widest at fifty-two points in 2024. The margin in 2024 was fifty-two points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Kootenai County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $81,861, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 181,996 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 Stillwater County.