Election Results
Wyoming delivered its largest-ever Republican presidential margin in 2024, with Donald Trump winning about 72% of the vote to Kamala Harris's 26%.
Democratic presidential vote share
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
Republican presidential vote share
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
| Indicator | Wyoming | U.S. |
|---|---|---|
| GOP presidential margin (points) | 46 | 1.5 |
- •Wyoming gave Trump his largest margin of victory of any state in 2024.
- •Wyoming has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1968.
- •With just 3 electoral votes, Wyoming ties for the fewest in the Electoral College.
Governors
Mark Gordon (R) serves as Wyoming's governor, continuing a long streak of Republican control of the governorship in one of the nation's most conservative states.
| Governor | Party | In office |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Gordon | Republican | 2019–present |
| Matthew Mead | Republican | 2011–2019 |
| Dave Freudenthal | Democratic | 2003–2011 |
| Jim Geringer | Republican | 1995–2003 |
| Michael J. Sullivan | Democratic | 1987–1995 |
| Edward Herschler | Democratic | 1975–1987 |
| Stanley K. Hathaway | Republican | 1967–1975 |
| Clifford P. Hansen | Republican | 1963–1967 |
| Jack Robert Gage | Democratic | 1961–1963 |
| John Joseph Hickey | Democratic | 1959–1961 |
| Milward L. Simpson | Republican | 1955–1959 |
| Clifford Joy Rogers | Republican | 1953–1955 |
| Frank A. Barrett | Republican | 1951–1953 |
| Arthur Griswold Crane | Republican | 1949–1951 |
| Lester Calloway Hunt | Democratic | 1943–1949 |
| Nels H. Smith | Republican | 1939–1943 |
| Leslie A. Miller | Democratic | 1933–1939 |
| Alonzo M. Clark | Republican | 1931–1933 |
| Frank Collins Emerson | Republican | 1927–1931 |
| Nellie Tayloe Ross | Democratic | 1925–1927 |
| Franklin Earl Lucas | Republican | 1924–1925 |
| William Bradford Ross | Democratic | 1923–1924 |
| Robert Davis Carey | Republican | 1919–1923 |
| Frank L. Houx | Democratic | 1917–1919 |
| John Benjamin Kendrick | Democratic | 1915–1917 |
| Joseph Maull Carey | Democratic | 1911–1915 |
| Fenimore Chatterton | Republican | 1903–1905 |
| De Forest Richards | Republican | 1899–1903 |
| William Alford Richards | Republican | 1895–1899 |
| John Eugene Osborne | Democratic | 1893–1895 |
| Amos Walker Barber | Republican | 1890–1893 |
| Francis E. Warren | Republican | 1890–1890 |
Source: National Governors Association, current and former governors.
- •Wyoming elected the first female governor in U.S. history, Nellie Tayloe Ross, in 1924.
- •Governor Mark Gordon was reelected in 2022 with a large majority.
- •Wyoming governors serve four-year terms with a two-term limit.
Senators
Wyoming's two U.S. Senators, John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, are both Republicans, reflecting the state's deeply conservative federal representation.
Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse). Regular-term races; special elections only when no regular race was held. Independents (e.g. caucusing with Democrats) are not counted as Democratic; years without a Democratic nominee are omitted.
Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •John Barrasso serves in Senate Republican leadership as Conference Chair.
- •Cynthia Lummis is a leading Senate voice on cryptocurrency regulation.
- •Wyoming has not sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in over four decades.
Representatives
Wyoming has a single at-large U.S. House seat, held by Republican Harriet Hageman, representing the entire state due to its small population.
U.S. House seats apportioned to Wyoming
1910–2020U.S. Census Bureau, decennial apportionment counts.
- •Wyoming is one of a handful of states with only one at-large congressional district.
- •Harriet Hageman defeated incumbent Liz Cheney in the 2022 Republican primary.
- •Wyoming's single House seat represents the entire state's 587,618 residents.
Voting Trends
Wyoming voter turnout was about 62% in the 2024 general election, with the state consistently favoring Republican candidates by wide margins across recent election cycles.
Total votes cast for president
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
| Indicator | Wyoming | U.S. |
|---|---|---|
| Voter turnout (%) | 62 | 64 |
- •Wyoming was the first place in the world to grant women full voting rights, in 1869.
- •Wyoming's turnout typically trails the national average slightly.
- •Republican vote share in Wyoming has grown in every presidential cycle since 2008.
Party Distribution
Registered Republicans vastly outnumber Democrats in Wyoming, and the state holds every statewide office and all federal seats under GOP control.
- •Wyoming's state legislature is overwhelmingly Republican, one of the most one-party bodies in the U.S.
- •Democrats hold only a small handful of seats in the Wyoming legislature.
- •Wyoming has not elected a Democratic U.S. Senator since the 1970s.