Additional details on the county-by-county results:
- A “red shift” occurred in the 2024 election, as Trump improved his vote margin in more than 2,300 counties compared to his 2020 performance.
- The total number of counties in the U.S. is 3,143 (including county equivalents). Since the number of counties that voted Republican (2,067) and Democratic (318) totals 2,385, this indicates that the remaining 758 counties were either not won by one of the two major parties, or results were not included in the National Association of Counties (NACo) analysis. Reasons for this discrepancy could be that the county voted for a third-party candidate or the data was not yet finalized.
- County and vote data are not perfectly correlated. While most counties in the U.S. voted Republican, a majority of Americans live in a county that votes Democratic. This is because Democratic voters are more geographically concentrated in urban and suburban areas, which contain much higher population densities.
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