 About 10.4% of families and 16.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 30.1% of those under age 18 and 7.2% of those age 65 or over.As a unionized logging county, Lewis County was the most Democratic single county in Idaho during the Fifth Party System – it never voted Republican between 1932 and 1968 – and retained its Democratic leanings into the 1980s when Michael Dukakis won a majority whilst losing nationwide.Since the 1990s, however, with the Democratic Party’s increasing focus on the urban coastal areas and de-unionization of the timber industry, the county has become as overwhelmingly Republican as older GOP strongholds in Idaho