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Votes cast for president
votes · MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000–2024, via electiondata.dev · a count of votes, not turnout: there is no count of eligible voters here to divide by
- United States, 2024
- 155.2M votes
- States with a figure
- 51 2024
- Counties with a figure
- 3,104 2024
Show the numbers (7 rows)
| Year | United States |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 155209552.0 |
| 2020 | 158477710.0 |
| 2016 | 136498163.0 |
| 2012 | 129048916.0 |
| 2008 | 131187337.0 |
| 2004 | 122320549.0 |
| 2000 | 105411375.0 |
Every state, 2024
| Rank | State | Votes cast for president | 4 yr | 8 yr | 12 yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 15.9M votes | −9.4% | +11.9% | +21.7% |
| 2 | Texas | 11.4M votes | +0.7% | +27.0% | +42.5% |
| 3 | Florida | 10.9M votes | −1.6% | +15.6% | +28.6% |
| 4 | New York | 8.3M votes | −4.6% | +7.2% | +17.0% |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 7.0M votes | +1.7% | +15.0% | +22.5% |
| 6 | Ohio | 5.8M votes | −2.6% | +4.9% | +3.4% |
| 7 | North Carolina | 5.7M votes | +3.2% | +20.2% | +26.5% |
| 8 | Michigan | 5.7M votes | +2.3% | +18.0% | +19.7% |
| 9 | Illinois | 5.6M votes | −6.6% | +1.3% | +7.5% |
| 10 | Georgia | 5.3M votes | +5.0% | +27.6% | +34.6% |
| 11 | Virginia | 4.5M votes | +0.4% | +12.5% | +16.3% |
| 12 | New Jersey | 4.3M votes | −6.1% | +10.3% | +17.4% |
| 13 | Washington | 3.9M votes | −4.0% | +22.3% | +25.6% |
| 14 | Massachusetts | 3.5M votes | −5.0% | +6.1% | +9.7% |
| 15 | Wisconsin | 3.4M votes | +3.8% | +15.0% | +11.4% |
| 16 | Arizona | 3.4M votes | +0.8% | +31.1% | +48.4% |
| 17 | Minnesota | 3.3M votes | −0.7% | +10.5% | +10.8% |
| 18 | Colorado | 3.2M votes | −2.0% | +14.8% | +24.2% |
| 19 | Tennessee | 3.1M votes | +0.3% | +22.2% | +24.6% |
| 20 | Maryland | 3.0M votes | 0.0% | +9.2% | +12.2% |
| 21 | Missouri | 3.0M votes | −1.0% | +6.7% | +8.6% |
| 22 | Indiana | 2.9M votes | −3.2% | +7.4% | +11.9% |
| 23 | South Carolina | 2.5M votes | +1.4% | +21.2% | +29.7% |
| 24 | Alabama | 2.3M votes | −2.5% | +6.7% | +9.4% |
| 25 | Oregon | 2.2M votes | −5.5% | +12.1% | +25.4% |
| 26 | Kentucky | 2.1M votes | −2.8% | +7.8% | +15.4% |
| 27 | Louisiana | 2.0M votes | −6.6% | −1.1% | +0.6% |
| 28 | Connecticut | 1.8M votes | −3.6% | +6.8% | +12.8% |
| 29 | Iowa | 1.7M votes | −1.0% | +6.9% | +5.8% |
| 30 | Oklahoma | 1.6M votes | +0.4% | +7.8% | +17.3% |
| 31 | Utah | 1.5M votes | −0.5% | +31.6% | +46.3% |
| 32 | Nevada | 1.5M votes | +5.7% | +31.9% | +46.3% |
| 33 | Kansas | 1.3M votes | −3.3% | +12.1% | +14.8% |
| 34 | Mississippi | 1.2M votes | −6.5% | +1.5% | −4.5% |
| 35 | Arkansas | 1.2M votes | −3.0% | +4.7% | +10.6% |
| 36 | Nebraska | 947.2K votes | −0.5% | +12.2% | +19.2% |
| 37 | New Mexico | 923.4K votes | −0.1% | +15.7% | +17.8% |
| 38 | Idaho | 905.1K votes | +4.3% | +31.1% | +38.8% |
| 39 | New Hampshire | 826.2K votes | +2.8% | +11.0% | +16.2% |
| 40 | Maine | 824.8K votes | +0.3% | +10.3% | +15.7% |
| 41 | West Virginia | 762.4K votes | −4.1% | +6.9% | +13.7% |
| 42 | Montana | 603.0K votes | −0.1% | +21.3% | +24.6% |
| 43 | Hawaii | 516.7K votes | −10.1% | +20.5% | +19.0% |
| 44 | Rhode Island | 511.8K votes | −1.1% | +10.3% | +14.7% |
| 45 | Delaware | 511.7K votes | +1.5% | +15.5% | +23.6% |
| 46 | South Dakota | 428.9K votes | +1.5% | +15.9% | +17.9% |
| 47 | Vermont | 372.9K votes | +0.6% | +18.3% | +24.6% |
| 48 | North Dakota | 368.2K votes | +1.8% | +6.9% | +14.0% |
| 49 | Alaska | 338.2K votes | −5.4% | +6.2% | +12.5% |
| 50 | District of Columbia | 325.9K votes | −5.4% | +4.7% | +10.9% |
| 51 | Wyoming | 269.0K votes | −3.4% | +5.2% | +8.0% |
Rank 1 is the highest value. States are the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands where they have a figure.
Highest and lowest counties, 2024
| Highest | State | Votes cast for president |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles County | California | 3.7M votes |
| Cook County | Illinois | 2.1M votes |
| Maricopa County | Arizona | 2.1M votes |
| Harris County | Texas | 1.6M votes |
| San Diego County | California | 1.5M votes |
| Orange County | California | 1.4M votes |
| King County | Washington | 1.1M votes |
| Miami-Dade County | Florida | 1.1M votes |
| Clark County | Nevada | 1.0M votes |
| Riverside County | California | 940.4K votes |
| Lowest | State | Votes cast for president |
|---|---|---|
| Loving County | Texas | 97.0 votes |
| King County | Texas | 135.0 votes |
| Kenedy County | Texas | 158.0 votes |
| Arthur County | Nebraska | 282.0 votes |
| McPherson County | Nebraska | 283.0 votes |
| Blaine County | Nebraska | 291.0 votes |
| Petroleum County | Montana | 324.0 votes |
| Clark County | Idaho | 333.0 votes |
| Grant County | Nebraska | 366.0 votes |
| Banner County | Nebraska | 386.0 votes |
Every county's figure is on its own page, in its profile table, with its rank among all counties and within its state.
Get this data
This page's numbers, as JSON:
curl https://visualizedata.org/data/us-indicators/us-votes-cast.jsonEvery place from electiondata.dev (live, no key; MIT Election Data and Science Lab data, this exact version):
curl "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/county-president@2026-10-26.a942e8daa5/download/county-president.parquet"Source
- MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000–2024 (CC0): MEDSL county returns, total presidential votes.
- Read through electiondata.dev, dataset county-president, version 2026-10-26.a942e8daa5; its 1 input files from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab are named with their sha256 in this page's data, and the site's checks recompute every figure from them.
- The margin is the Republican candidate's votes minus the Democratic candidate's, as a share of every presidential vote cast in the county, third parties and write-ins included. A state is the sum of every reporting unit MEDSL lists in it, so Alaska (which reports by state house district, not county) has a state figure but no county figures, and Connecticut's former counties count toward the state. The changes compare with the elections 4, 8 and 12 years before. MEDSL's file is served by Harvard Dataverse after a short form, so the site's checks read a copy whose MD5 Dataverse publishes.
- Every four years, when MEDSL publishes the certified county returns.
- Built 2026-10-27.