Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

2024 results by precinct

75 precincts · 47,255 votes cast

Trump · R+34

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−33.7%	15,440	31,347	47,255
2020	R	−29.6%	15,978	29,597	46,076
2016	R	−27.8%	14,009	25,428	41,076
2012	R	−9.0%	17,513	21,047	39,189
2008	R	−5.1%	19,711	21,851	42,103
2004	R	−1.3%	21,387	21,938	43,442
2000	D	+6.4%	20,593	18,060	39,640
1996	D	+16.3%	18,993	13,088	36,259
1992	D	+20.6%	20,830	12,359	41,203
1988	D	+16.0%	21,884	15,829	37,904
1984	D	+10.8%	23,981	19,277	43,386
1980	D	+2.7%	19,506	18,404	40,213
1976	D	+11.2%	23,337	18,546	42,640
1972	R	−14.5%	17,595	23,712	42,297
1968	D	+6.2%	21,027	18,360	43,103
1964	D	+29.0%	29,092	15,998	45,207
1960	D	+1.4%	24,309	23,646	48,064
1956	R	−11.4%	19,923	25,037	45,025
1952	R	−4.8%	21,164	23,319	44,738
1948	R	−7.8%	14,632	17,186	32,599
1944	R	−4.2%	17,331	18,886	36,620
1940	R	−1.4%	18,814	19,361	38,405
1936	D	+17.2%	21,994	15,458	38,090
1932	R	−15.5%	9,390	13,064	23,709
1928	R	−50.9%	6,417	20,012	26,702
1924	R	−54.9%	1,880	12,533	19,406
1920	R	−45.8%	2,720	9,448	14,676
1916	R	−11.2%	3,966	5,134	10,385
1912	R	−1.5%	1,976	2,128	9,845
1908	R	−27.2%	2,656	5,350	9,896
1904	R	−49.9%	1,894	7,634	11,506
1900	R	−34.7%	2,754	6,343	10,332
1896	R	−33.6%	3,013	6,228	9,562
1892	R	−28.1%	2,336	4,385	7,296
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%

English

0.5%

Italian

0.5%

African American

3.0%

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: 44.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

2.0%

3.1%

75–84

3.9%

6.4%

65–74

7.1%

7.0%

55–64

7.5%

6.0%

45–54

6.0%

5.6%

35–44

5.5%

5.8%

25–34

5.4%

3.9%

18–24

3.9%

7.4%

5–17

7.6%

2.5%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$61,931

Lawrence County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Lawrence County$61,931

Pennsylvania$77,971

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

11.9%

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

34.8%

Other Christian

10.2%

Mainline Protestant

5.9%

Methodist

2.9%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.6%

Baptist

0.8%

Non-Christian

0.3%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 42.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Lawrence County's deindustrialized Rust Belt towns have shifted sharply rightward over two decades; its 2024 presidential margin of R+33.8 places it well outside Pennsylvania's statewide competitive range.

The Democratic margin in Lawrence County peaked at twenty-nine points in 1964. By 2004 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was thirty-four points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Lawrence County's median household income of $61,931 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 Brooke County and Franklin County.

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