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wilder seems to have a population of about 1600 as of the 2020 census. i was unable to find numbers for 2024, but it appears that in 2025, there was a voter turnout in precinct 0409, which includes wilder, of 66. not 66 percent, mind, but 66 individual people. the total voter registrations only totaled 487. so unless the numbers were ridiculously higher in 2024 (and they undid their voter registration afterwards? can you even do that?), i strongly doubt anwhere near 91% of people there voted for trump.
sources:
wikipedia page for wilder - lists census population
idaho voter precinct map - how i found out the precinct number
election results and voter turnout
ETA: Found more data! It looks like 712 people in the district voted for trump in 2024. That amounted to 82.03% of the vote, but still less than half of the population, if we assume that only folks from wilder voted, and nobody from the surrounding area. Now, if the population had halved since the 2020 census, and all the votes cast in that district were from people in wilder (and the votes cast against trump were mostly out of town), then we could get close to that 91% figure.
canyon county 2024 election results by precinct - look for page 29
good night ya'll, and remember, as my grampa said, there's three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Does the census numbers maybe also contain kids? Could inflate the numbers (although not enough to change it drastically)
yeah, they would. children are people too though, y'know? and i'm betting they didn't vote for trump.
Even if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
it's a choice (though of course a lot of people aren't allowed to vote, and for them its no choice at all), but it's definitely not a choice to vote for any particular candidate.