Coal County, Oklahoma

2024 results by precinct

9 precincts · 2,538 votes cast

Trump · R+71

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−71.3%	345	2,155	2,538
2020	R	−68.0%	374	2,091	2,524
2016	R	−62.0%	411	1,898	2,399
2012	R	−45.0%	649	1,710	2,359
2008	R	−47.2%	600	1,672	2,272
2004	R	−7.4%	1,203	1,396	2,599
2000	R	−2.0%	1,148	1,196	2,362
1996	D	+20.7%	1,205	734	2,276
1992	D	+26.2%	1,448	714	2,800
1988	D	+20.9%	1,365	891	2,270
1984	D	+1.0%	1,284	1,259	2,564
1980	D	+21.2%	1,442	926	2,431
1976	D	+39.2%	1,774	769	2,566
1972	R	−35.8%	680	1,461	2,179
1968	D	+13.0%	963	669	2,257
1964	D	+38.2%	1,613	721	2,334
1960	D	+10.9%	1,269	1,019	2,288
1956	D	+26.9%	1,596	920	2,516
1952	D	+22.7%	1,755	1,106	2,861
1948	D	+64.1%	2,124	464	2,588
1944	D	+44.0%	1,959	760	2,724
1940	D	+34.8%	2,377	1,148	3,535
1936	D	+61.6%	2,550	603	3,160
1932	D	+80.6%	2,788	300	3,088
1928	D	+13.3%	1,681	1,283	2,996
1924	D	+30.6%	1,772	800	3,179
1920	D	+0.6%	1,768	1,744	3,997
1916	D	+21.0%	1,418	824	2,830
1912	D	+23.9%	1,109	571	2,254
1908	D	+8.5%	906	722	2,156
1904	—	No data	—	—	—
1900	—	No data	—	—	—
1896	—	No data	—	—	—
1892	—	No data	—	—	—
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
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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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 39.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.5%

85+

1.5%

3.0%

75–84

3.7%

5.6%

65–74

6.4%

6.5%

55–64

6.4%

5.5%

45–54

5.6%

5.1%

35–44

5.7%

5.6%

25–34

5.3%

18–24

4.3%

10.0%

5–17

6.8%

3.7%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$50,423

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

Coal County$50,423

Oklahoma$65,039

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

44.0%

Methodist

13.3%

Other Christian

7.4%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.1%

Mainline Protestant

1.0%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 32.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Coal County's 2024 presidential margin of R+71.3 reflects a rural southeastern Oklahoma electorate that has swung decisively Republican over the past two decades, with a population under 6,100 spread across timber and ranch land.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Coal County peaked at eighty-one points in 1932; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2000 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of two points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Coal County's median household income of $50,423 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Allen Parish and Latimer County.

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For eighty-eight years, Coal County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.