Esmeralda County, Nevada

2024 results by precinct

4 precincts · 461 votes cast

Trump · R+66

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−65.7%	73	376	461
2020	R	−66.9%	74	400	487
2016	R	−62.4%	65	329	423
2012	R	−51.7%	92	317	435
2008	R	−46.6%	104	303	427
2004	R	−55.7%	99	367	481
2000	R	−44.2%	116	333	491
1996	R	−25.1%	140	277	546
1992	R	−17.6%	118	221	584
1988	R	−42.9%	143	380	552
1984	R	−45.6%	158	453	647
1980	R	−42.9%	110	311	469
1976	D	+7.9%	214	181	416
1972	R	−36.5%	127	273	400
1968	R	−5.7%	118	138	353
1964	D	+17.6%	187	131	318
1960	D	+15.9%	215	156	371
1956	R	−13.9%	124	164	288
1952	R	−11.2%	139	174	313
1948	D	+5.2%	183	164	365
1944	D	+19.6%	223	150	373
1940	D	+37.3%	639	292	931
1936	D	+56.8%	566	156	722
1932	D	+48.7%	426	147	573
1928	D	+5.6%	341	305	646
1924	R	−12.5%	150	241	726
1920	R	−12.7%	347	466	940
1916	D	+18.7%	1,135	709	2,281
1912	D	+25.3%	713	252	1,825
1908	D	+10.0%	2,787	2,208	5,784
1904	R	−9.5%	380	490	1,161
1900	D	+39.6%	289	125	414
1896	D	+70.4%	397	69	466
1892	R	−13.0%	19	84	499
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%.

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: 55.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.3%

85+

0.0%

3.1%

75–84

2.4%

9.4%

65–74

8.6%

19.7%

55–64

5.5%

5.0%

45–54

11.5%

3.3%

35–44

8.7%

5.5%

25–34

3.0%

0.1%

18–24

0.0%

0.8%

5–17

9.3%

2.7%

0.0%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$41,715

Esmeralda County ranks in the bottom 10% of US counties.

Esmeralda County$41,715

Nevada$78,260

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

12.4%

Child poverty is below the national average.

Children under 180.0%

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

Catholic & Orthodox

10.3%

Baptist

3.2%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 86.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

With fewer than a thousand residents spread across 3,500 square miles of high desert, Esmeralda regularly posts some of the most lopsided presidential margins in the American West, reflecting the political tendencies common to remote, rural mining counties.

The Democratic margin in Esmeralda County peaked at seventy points in 1896. By 1980 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was sixty-six points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Esmeralda County's median household income of $41,715 sits well below state and national norms, and 12% 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 Lincoln County and Stone County.

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