Lowest percentage of vote to carry a county?

[bomberswarm2]

The lowest percentage to carry a state was Wilson's 32.08% in Idaho in 1912. How about for a county?
I can see in the same election Debs carried Beltrami County, Minnesota with a percentage in the 20s, but I can't find the actual results. Anyone know what the lowest one is?

[CentristRepublican]

It might be the Beltrami County 1912 example. I can't think of any counties that better meet this critera of the top of my ahead.

[bomberswarm2]

Does anyone have the exact numbers in Beltrami?

[CentristRepublican]

Does anyone have the exact numbers in Beltrami?

All I know is from Wikipedia - candidates other than Wilson and Taft collected a cumulative 57.7% of the total vote altogether (in other words just 42.3% voted for Wilson or Taft).

[bomberswarm2]

Roosevelt won Catslop county, Washington with 27.24%. The statistics page dosen't have results for Debs.

[Death of a Salesman]

Beltrami County, Minnesota 1912 results were as follows:
Eugene Debs (Public Ownership): 871, 28.79%
Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive): 794, 26.25%
Woodrow Wilson (Democratic): 790, 26.12%
William Taft (Republican): 490, 16.20%
Arthur Reimer (Socialist Labor): 41, 1.36%
Eugene Chafin (Prohibition): 39, 1.29%

28.79% is low, but can we find a lower fraction? Well, in 1912, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, and Washington came closest to approximating a 4 cornered election.
In Montana,  the lowest was Wilson's 30.77% in Hill County.
In Idaho, the lowest winning share was Roosevelt's 30.22% in Bonner County (with Debs in second).
In Nevada, it was Wilson's 34.18% in Churchill County.
Ah, but in Washington we find a lower portion.
In Clallam County Taft won with just 28.67%,  and in Skagit we have

Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive): 2,529, 27.38%
William Taft (Republican): 2,399, 25.97%
Woodrow Wilson (Democratic): 1,962, 21.24%
Eugene Debs (Socialist): 1,781 19.28%
Eugene Chafin (Prohibition): 508, 5.50%
Arthur Reimer (Socialist Labor): 58, 0.63%

So I do believe it's 27.38% in 1912. Perhaps another year has a lower winning share, but it's hard to think of a case where that could be so.

[brucejoel99]

Roosevelt won Catslop county, Washington with 27.24%. The statistics page dosen't have results for Debs.

*Clatsop, OR, but yes, it's the lowest-ever proportion of the vote that a candidate has achieved in a county they still won.

(And Debs got 16.67%.)