Trump received 6.1% of his votes from pivot counties, and Harris received 5.2% of her votes from pivot counties. Trump and Harris both earned more votes from Suffolk County, New York than any other pivot county, each receiving 9% of their total pivot county votes there.
List of Pivot Counties
This table lists all 206 pivot counties as well as the winner of those counties following the 2024 election. Additional information includes the margins of victory from 2008 to 2020.
Background
Ballotpedia identified 206 counties that voted for Trump in 2016 after voting for Obama in 2008 and 2012. The counties span 34 states and cast 7.5 million votes in 2016, or 5.5 percent of all votes that year. In 2024, they cast 8 million votes, representing 5.6% of the total popular vote.
Iowa has the most pivot counties, with 31. Maine has the highest percentage of pivot counties, with 50 percent of the state’s total counties being pivot counties. Click here to read the 2016 analysis.
In 2020, Trump retained 181 pivot counties. Trump’s margin of victory decreased in 68 and increased in 113. The other 25 pivot counties boomeranged back to Biden. Click here to read the 2020 analysis.
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