Carter County, Missouri

2024 results by precinct

5 precincts · 2,862 votes cast

Trump · R+74

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−74.2%	364	2,488	2,862
2020	R	−70.2%	418	2,451	2,897
2016	R	−66.2%	436	2,324	2,850
2012	R	−43.7%	754	1,978	2,799
2008	R	−29.5%	984	1,840	2,898
2004	R	−30.0%	964	1,797	2,779
2000	R	−26.1%	997	1,730	2,808
1996	R	−0.3%	1,172	1,180	2,677
1992	D	+2.5%	1,169	1,101	2,686
1988	R	−13.5%	1,087	1,429	2,528
1984	R	−21.0%	916	1,402	2,318
1980	R	−5.5%	1,087	1,218	2,368
1976	D	+15.5%	1,154	842	2,007
1972	R	−38.0%	565	1,257	1,822
1968	R	−6.5%	738	861	1,888
1964	D	+23.6%	1,232	761	1,993
1960	R	−21.1%	683	1,049	1,732
1956	D	+1.6%	1,067	1,033	2,100
1952	D	+1.0%	1,123	1,100	2,223
1948	D	+13.0%	1,255	964	2,237
1944	D	+7.7%	1,207	1,033	2,252
1940	D	+11.3%	1,499	1,195	2,697
1936	D	+19.2%	1,590	1,073	2,689
1932	D	+33.4%	1,522	750	2,309
1928	R	−1.3%	963	989	1,962
1924	D	+14.7%	1,051	772	1,903
1920	R	−6.2%	930	1,057	2,047
1916	D	+10.4%	586	469	1,130
1912	D	+21.8%	458	256	926
1908	D	+7.2%	591	507	1,162
1904	D	+4.2%	556	510	1,106
1900	D	+9.1%	755	629	1,390
1896	D	+11.6%	611	483	1,107
1892	D	+23.7%	617	377	1,011
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%

Polish

0.5%

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: 38.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.2%

85+

0.8%

3.4%

75–84

3.9%

6.1%

65–74

6.2%

7.2%

55–64

7.7%

4.3%

45–54

5.8%

6.1%

35–44

5.6%

5.1%

25–34

4.9%

4.4%

18–24

4.1%

8.9%

5–17

8.7%

2.2%

4.5%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$50,000

Carter County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.

Carter County$50,000

Missouri$70,702

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

20.8%

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

Baptist

24.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

6.4%

Other Christian

6.0%

Methodist

3.0%

Mainline Protestant

2.8%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.0%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 56.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Carter County's Ozark hill country and sparse population of under 6,000 produced an R+74.2 presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most one-sided results in the state.

The Democratic margin in Carter County peaked at thirty-three points in 1932. By 1996 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was seventy-four points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Carter County's median household income of $50,000 sits well below state and national norms, and 21% 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 Ripley County and Harrison County.

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