Wheeler County, Oregon

2024 results by precinct

3 precincts · 868 votes cast

Trump · R+47

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−47.0%	210	618	868
2020	R	−51.2%	217	711	965
2016	R	−53.3%	155	591	818
2012	R	−32.5%	266	545	858
2008	R	−26.7%	281	498	812
2004	R	−41.7%	245	612	880
2000	R	−45.4%	202	584	841
1996	R	−13.6%	299	418	874
1992	R	−10.5%	267	357	860
1988	R	−13.8%	274	367	673
1984	R	−33.2%	253	504	757
1980	R	−19.8%	282	442	808
1976	D	+6.0%	402	355	779
1972	R	−26.3%	267	474	786
1968	R	−19.8%	292	443	762
1964	D	+14.8%	458	340	798
1960	R	−9.7%	466	566	1,032
1956	R	−3.1%	569	605	1,174
1952	R	−21.1%	468	719	1,188
1948	R	−0.4%	411	414	841
1944	R	−13.5%	414	544	962
1940	R	−3.9%	652	705	1,360
1936	D	+13.5%	663	502	1,190
1932	D	+9.7%	632	519	1,165
1928	R	−50.2%	224	677	902
1924	R	−47.2%	213	685	1,001
1920	R	−56.2%	212	797	1,041
1916	R	−4.9%	570	629	1,216
1912	R	−12.4%	222	307	686
1908	R	−26.8%	236	418	678
1904	R	−45.3%	161	462	664
1900	R	−26.6%	243	426	687
1896	—	No data	—	—	—
1892	—	No data	—	—	—
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

2.6%

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: 59.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.7%

85+

2.8%

6.1%

75–84

8.1%

11.4%

65–74

8.8%

7.2%

55–64

10.5%

6.3%

45–54

5.4%

3.8%

35–44

4.2%

3.2%

25–34

4.0%

2.4%

18–24

2.4%

3.0%

5–17

3.9%

2.6%

2.3%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$55,284

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

Wheeler County$55,284

Oregon$83,011

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

10.8%

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

Other Christian

20.6%

Catholic & Orthodox

6.9%

Pentecostal & Holiness

6.1%

Methodist

2.2%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 64.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Wheeler County's roughly 1,500 residents make it one of the smallest electorates in Oregon, yet it consistently produces some of the state's widest presidential margins, reflecting the deep conservative lean of Oregon's high-desert ranching interior.

The Democratic margin in Wheeler County peaked at fifteen points in 1964. By 1980 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was forty-seven points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Wheeler County's median household income of $55,284 sits well below state and national norms, and 11% 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 Douglas County and Powell County.

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