Flipped counties

There are 3,141 counties in the United States. 3,053 voted for the same party in the last two elections.

Trump flipped 88 counties this year. 

Harris flipped 0. 

He flipped 54 counties that had previously voted for both Clinton and Biden, and flipped back 34 counties that had voted for him in 2016 but switched to Biden in 2020. Every single county Kamala won, Biden also won in 2020. 

The last time a candidate flipped no counties was nearly 100 years ago in the midst of the Great Depression, where Herbert Hoover failed to flip a single county red from blue in 1932. Even in the infamous 1984 landslide where Reagan won 49 states, a few red counties still flipped to Mondale.

2020

Trump flipped 16 counties.

Biden flipped 66 counties.

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2016

Trump flipped 217 counties

Hillary Clinton flipped 30 counties.

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2012

Romney flipped 197 counties

Obama flipped 11 counties.

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Nearly a third of flipped counties were also longstanding Democratic strongholds, spanning decades of solid blue elections. While not impossible, like Maricopa County going to Biden in 2020, the scale of the flips in 2024 leans towards improbable.

Starr County, TX - blue for 132 years

Duval County, TX - 112 years

Webb County, TX - 108 years

Carlton County, MN - 92 years

Maverick County, TX - 92 years

Iberville Parish, LA - 48 years

St. James Parish, LA - 48 years

Marshall County, MS - 48 years

Anson County, NC - 48 years

Jasper County, SC - 48 years

Hidalgo County, TX - 48 years

Willacy County, TX - 48 years

Surry County, VA - 48 years

Scott County, IA - 36 years

Imperial County, CA - 32 years

Jefferson County, GA - 32 years

Miami-Dade County, FL - 32 years

Tensas Parish, LA - 32 years

Pasquotank County, NC - 32 years

Atlantic County, NJ - 32 years

Cumberland County, NJ - 32 years

Socorro County, NM - 32 years

Naussau County, NY - 32 years

Bucks County, PA - 32 years

Passaic County, NJ - 28 years

Clinton County, NY - 28 years


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