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1876–2024
Missoula County, Montana
Missoula County·Montana

Missoula County has voted Democratic for as long as anyone can remember.

Montana's most Democratic county by a wide margin

18762024·38 elections
Missoula County, Montana · Mfield, Matthew Field, http://www.photography.mattfield.com · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
D+21
in 2024
Archetype
Democratic loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
120,672
2024 ACS
Most similar
Orange County
NC · similarity 0.97
65 precincts · 72,773 votes cast
Harris · D+21
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024D
+21.4%
42,90327,30672,773
2020D
+23.8%
43,35726,34771,495
2016D
+15.3%
31,54322,25060,722
2012D
+17.8%
32,82422,65257,232
2008D
+26.7%
36,53120,74359,075
2004D
+5.7%
26,98323,98952,454
2000R
−9.1%
17,24121,47446,576
1996D
+13.2%
21,87416,03444,382
1992D
+17.2%
20,34712,89843,299
1988D
+9.0%
19,17815,96535,669
1984R
−8.8%
16,54019,77736,937
1980R
−8.8%
13,11516,16134,594
1976R
−3.9%
15,09916,35031,837
1972R
−5.9%
13,78415,55730,049
1968R
−6.6%
8,3989,74520,292
1964D
+23.0%
12,9008,06521,004
1960R
−7.9%
8,87610,39619,337
1956R
−22.2%
6,76010,62717,387
1952R
−18.5%
6,90110,05317,041
1948D
+4.2%
7,0056,42613,873
1944D
+1.7%
5,5585,37111,028
1940D
+15.6%
7,7475,64013,537
1936D
+46.2%
7,6902,69710,803
1932D
+14.8%
5,2423,8199,616
1928R
−20.8%
3,2915,0568,467
1924R
−17.0%
1,0122,3868,104
1920R
−13.0%
3,2924,3748,314
1916D
+15.1%
4,0692,9267,563
1912D
+20.1%
1,5235894,658
1908R
−1.9%
1,7801,8564,022
1904R
−33.3%
9962,2393,738
1900D
+15.1%
1,8931,3923,326
1896D
+72.0%
2,2593652,630
1892D
+5.7%
2,3402,0455,136
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%
Irish
0.6%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
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
10.6%
Catholic & Orthodox
9.5%
Mainline Protestant
3.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.3%
Non-Christian
0.8%
Baptist
0.7%
Methodist
0.4%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 73.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Home to the University of Montana, Missoula County posts the state's largest Democratic presidential margins — running more than 20 points left of center in a state that otherwise tilts sharply Republican.

The Democratic margin in Missoula County reached its widest at seventy-two points in 1896. The margin in 2024 was twenty-one points — still decisive.

Missoula County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $75,598, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 120,672 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 Orange County and Todd County.