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1876–2024
Huron County, Michigan
Huron County·Michigan

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

One of Michigan's sharpest rightward shifts traces back decades here

18762024·38 elections
Huron County, Michigan · Charles Bash · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+41
in 2024
Archetype
Populist
since the recent cycles
Population
31,113
2024 ACS
Most similar
Lapeer County
MI · similarity 0.99
62 precincts · 18,969 votes cast
Trump · R+41
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−40.6%
5,52213,22418,969
2020R
−39.3%
5,49012,73118,437
2016R
−38.3%
4,57910,69215,944
2012R
−14.8%
6,5188,80615,484
2008R
−0.4%
8,3678,43417,135
2004R
−11.7%
7,6299,67117,466
2000R
−12.5%
6,8998,91116,095
1996D
+4.7%
6,8276,12614,855
1992R
−2.8%
6,0236,49116,632
1988R
−24.4%
5,7149,41915,214
1984R
−47.1%
3,96611,07315,091
1980R
−37.8%
4,43410,55316,167
1976R
−23.6%
5,7219,29715,176
1972R
−36.8%
4,4569,83214,596
1968R
−37.9%
3,6078,74313,552
1964D
+8.0%
7,3496,26313,626
1960R
−24.8%
5,7759,59215,386
1956R
−53.3%
3,19210,49313,704
1952R
−62.8%
2,42110,63913,089
1948R
−50.9%
2,5627,97810,648
1944R
−60.8%
2,3019,53811,898
1940R
−59.7%
2,65410,57013,258
1936R
−11.5%
3,9495,24011,207
1932D
+0.5%
5,7705,70711,690
1928R
−29.9%
3,7977,04610,875
1924R
−72.1%
9888,84310,898
1920R
−66.9%
1,5818,35410,117
1916R
−43.7%
1,8164,7436,694
1912R
−9.1%
1,2361,8136,337
1908R
−39.6%
1,4773,5655,269
1904R
−45.9%
1,4864,1915,895
1900R
−25.2%
2,1203,6325,996
1896R
−9.3%
2,8083,3966,331
1892D
+11.1%
2,2221,6924,787
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
Catholic & Orthodox
21.9%
Mainline Protestant
16.4%
Methodist
6.8%
Other Christian
4.7%
Baptist
1.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.3%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 47.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

A rural thumb-peninsula county where agriculture and Great Lakes shoreline define daily life, Huron has delivered Republican presidential margins above 35 points in recent cycles, making it one of the state's most reliably one-sided counties.

The Democratic margin in Huron County peaked at eleven points in 1892. By 2000 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was forty-one points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Huron County's median household income of $58,870 sits well below state and national norms, and 13% 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 Lapeer County and Waushara County.