Cattaraugus County, New York

2024 results by precinct

55 precincts · 34,107 votes cast

Trump · R+33

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−32.7%	11,424	22,586	34,107
2020	R	−29.6%	11,879	22,155	34,760
2016	R	−32.7%	9,497	19,692	31,161
2012	R	−13.2%	12,649	16,569	29,767
2008	R	−10.6%	14,307	17,770	32,617
2004	R	−19.1%	13,514	20,051	34,266
2000	R	−13.5%	13,816	18,382	33,733
1996	D	+0.2%	13,029	12,971	31,643
1992	R	−10.8%	10,150	13,944	35,092
1988	R	−22.3%	12,447	19,691	32,428
1984	R	−40.5%	10,194	24,162	34,468
1980	R	−13.2%	12,917	17,222	32,709
1976	R	−17.1%	13,768	19,469	33,422
1972	R	−33.4%	10,909	21,906	32,927
1968	R	−12.4%	12,733	16,594	31,148
1964	D	+33.7%	21,994	10,907	32,933
1960	R	−19.0%	14,797	21,749	36,573
1956	R	−44.9%	9,613	25,282	34,895
1952	R	−37.2%	11,333	24,808	36,195
1948	R	−22.9%	11,289	18,246	30,393
1944	R	−25.5%	11,787	19,907	31,795
1940	R	−31.6%	11,924	22,987	35,055
1936	R	−26.0%	11,901	20,484	32,984
1932	R	−21.5%	11,467	18,071	30,786
1928	R	−36.1%	10,229	22,135	33,001
1924	R	−44.1%	5,369	17,307	27,066
1920	R	−39.1%	6,693	16,083	24,029
1916	R	−14.0%	6,565	8,825	16,197
1912	D	+0.5%	4,886	4,820	14,363
1908	R	−19.7%	6,096	9,320	16,371
1904	R	−33.0%	4,923	10,182	15,919
1900	R	−22.3%	6,224	9,948	16,713
1896	R	−20.4%	6,088	9,337	15,889
1892	R	−14.7%	5,753	7,973	15,105
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%

Italian

1.5%

African American

1.2%

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: 42.8 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.0%

85+

1.6%

2.6%

75–84

3.0%

6.3%

65–74

6.4%

7.4%

55–64

7.2%

6.1%

45–54

5.8%

5.6%

35–44

5.7%

5.5%

25–34

5.3%

4.6%

18–24

4.2%

8.6%

5–17

8.0%

2.7%

2.6%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$59,540

Cattaraugus County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Cattaraugus County$59,540

New York$85,974

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

19.1%

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

Catholic & Orthodox

16.6%

Other Christian

10.1%

Methodist

3.8%

Mainline Protestant

2.5%

Baptist

1.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

0.7%

Non-Christian

0.5%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 64.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Cattaraugus sits in the Southern Tier's forested hill country, where a predominantly white, working-class population has shifted from a competitive swing county in the early 2000s to one of New York's most lopsided presidential margins by 2024.

The Democratic margin in Cattaraugus County peaked at thirty-four points in 1964. By 2000 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was thirty-three points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Cattaraugus County's median household income of $59,540 sits well below state and national norms, and 19% 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 Champaign County and Sanilac County.

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