Columbia County, Washington

2024 results by precinct

13 precincts · 2,485 votes cast

Trump · R+43

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−43.3%	661	1,737	2,485
2020	R	−43.5%	668	1,754	2,495
2016	R	−43.6%	526	1,497	2,229
2012	R	−40.5%	645	1,568	2,280
2008	R	−36.5%	686	1,499	2,228
2004	R	−41.1%	605	1,470	2,107
2000	R	−47.8%	515	1,523	2,107
1996	R	−10.5%	743	948	1,955
1992	R	−4.9%	668	761	1,914
1988	R	−22.7%	730	1,172	1,944
1984	R	−34.9%	673	1,404	2,095
1980	R	−36.5%	587	1,349	2,086
1976	R	−15.9%	829	1,153	2,034
1972	R	−43.8%	533	1,445	2,080
1968	R	−21.7%	754	1,221	2,152
1964	D	+4.1%	1,138	1,048	2,187
1960	R	−24.3%	793	1,301	2,094
1956	R	−31.6%	739	1,423	2,162
1952	R	−32.7%	765	1,511	2,283
1948	R	−2.2%	1,015	1,062	2,112
1944	R	−7.6%	1,039	1,211	2,270
1940	R	−9.1%	1,218	1,461	2,685
1936	D	+24.2%	1,391	807	2,412
1932	D	+33.8%	1,491	714	2,298
1928	R	−31.3%	689	1,328	2,041
1924	R	−27.9%	522	1,122	2,153
1920	R	−33.3%	662	1,376	2,144
1916	D	+0.7%	1,164	1,148	2,447
1912	D	+7.1%	855	673	2,564
1908	R	−19.5%	585	887	1,545
1904	R	−36.6%	482	1,089	1,657
1900	R	−11.7%	706	899	1,643
1896	D	+5.2%	862	776	1,651
1892	D	+3.6%	672	615	1,565
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: 49.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

1.4%

5.4%

75–84

5.1%

7.9%

65–74

8.8%

7.1%

55–64

8.0%

3.7%

45–54

5.5%

6.1%

35–44

7.1%

5.4%

25–34

4.0%

2.9%

18–24

2.9%

8.1%

5–17

5.8%

2.4%

1.6%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$71,810

Columbia County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Columbia County$71,810

Washington$98,141

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

9.3%

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

10.8%

Catholic & Orthodox

6.9%

Mainline Protestant

5.6%

Methodist

1.4%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.1%

Baptist

1.0%

Non-Christian

0.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 73.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Columbia County, a sparsely populated wheat-farming county in Washington's southeastern corner, has delivered Republican presidential margins exceeding 40 points in recent cycles, making it among the state's most lopsided counties by vote share.

The Democratic margin in Columbia County peaked at thirty-four points in 1932. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was forty-three points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Columbia County's median household income of $71,810 sits well below state and national norms, and 9% 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 Fremont County and Modoc County.

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