United States presidential elections in Alabama

Presidential elections in Alabama

Number of elections| 51
Voted Democratic| 29
Voted Republican| 16
Voted Democratic-Republican| 1
Voted other| 2[a]
Voted for winning candidate| 27
Voted for losing candidate| 24

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Alabama, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1819, Alabama has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864, during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy.

A socially conservative Deep South state, Alabama was dominated by the Democratic Party for most of its history, voting almost exclusively Democratic from the founding of the party in the 1820s until the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Since the 1980s, the state has become heavily Republican, like most of the south.

Notably, Alabama has also almost always voted for the same presidential candidate as neighboring Mississippi. In more than two hundred years of presidential elections, they have supported the same candidate in all but one; the election of 1840, when Mississippi voted for William Henry Harrison and Alabama for Martin Van Buren (in 1868, only Alabama participated, as Mississippi had not yet been readmitted to the Union).

Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.

## Elections from 1864 to present

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2024[1] | Donald Trump | 1,462,616  | 64.57  | Kamala Harris | 772,412  | 34.10  | –  |  |  | 9  |
2020[2] | Joe Biden | 849,624 | 36.57 | Donald Trump | 1,441,170 | 62.03 | — |  |  | 9 |
2016[3] | Donald Trump[c] | 1,318,255 | 62.08 | Hillary Clinton | 729,547 | 34.36 | — |  |  | 9 |
2012[4] | Barack Obama | 795,696 | 38.36 | Mitt Romney | 1,255,925 | 60.55 | — |  |  | 9 |
2008[5] | Barack Obama | 813,479 | 38.74 | John McCain | 1,266,546 | 60.32 | — |  |  | 9 |
2004[6] | George W. Bush | 1,176,394 | 62.46 | John Kerry | 693,933 | 36.84 | — |  |  | 9 |
2000[7] | George W. Bush[c] | 941,173 | 56.48 | Al Gore | 692,611 | 41.57 | — |  |  | 9 |
1996[8] | Bill Clinton | 662,165 | 43.16 | Bob Dole | 769,044 | 50.12 | Ross Perot | 92,149 | 6.01 | 9 |
1992 | Bill Clinton | 690,080 | 40.88 | George H. W. Bush | 804,283 | 47.65 | Ross Perot | 183,109 | 10.85 | 9 |
1988 | George H. W. Bush | 815,576 | 59.17 | Michael Dukakis | 549,506 | 39.86 | — |  |  | 9 |
1984 | Ronald Reagan | 872,849 | 60.54 | Walter Mondale | 551,899 | 38.28 | — |  |  | 9 |
1980 | Ronald Reagan | 654,192 | 48.75 | Jimmy Carter | 636,730 | 47.45 | John B. Anderson | 16,481 | 1.23 | 9 |
1976 | Jimmy Carter | 659,170 | 55.73 | Gerald Ford | 504,070 | 42.61 | — |  |  | 9 |
1972 | Richard Nixon | 728,701 | 72.43 | George McGovern | 256,923 | 25.54 | — |  |  | 9 |
1968 | Richard Nixon | 146,923 | 13.99 | Hubert Humphrey | 196,579 | 18.72 | George Wallace | 691,425 | 65.86 | 10 |
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | n/a | n/a | Barry Goldwater | 479,085 | 69.45 | Unpledged Democratic electors | 210,732 | 30.55 | 10 | Johnson did not appear on the ballot.
1960 | John F. Kennedy | 318,303 | 56.41 | Richard Nixon | 237,981 | 42.18 | Harry F. Byrd
(unpledged Democratic Electors) | 324,050 | 57.43 | 11 | Electoral votes split: five Kennedy and six unpledged (Byrd).
1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 195,694 | 39.39 | Adlai Stevenson II | 280,844 | 56.52 | T. Coleman Andrews/
Unpledged Electors[d] | 20,323 | 4.09 | 11 | Electoral vote split: 11 to Stevenson, 1 to Jones (faithless elector)
1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 149,231 | 35.02 | Adlai Stevenson II | 275,075 | 64.55 | — |  |  | 11 |
1948 | Harry S. Truman | n/a | n/a | Thomas E. Dewey | 40,930 | 19.04 | Strom Thurmond | 171,443 | 79.75 | 11 | Truman did not appear on the ballot.
1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 198,918 | 81.28 | Thomas E. Dewey | 44,540 | 18.2 | — |  |  | 11 |
1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 250,726 | 85.22 | Wendell Willkie | 42,184 | 14.34 | — |  |  | 11 |
1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 238,136 | 86.38 | Alf Landon | 35,358 | 12.82 | — |  |  | 11 |
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 207,910 | 84.74 | Herbert Hoover | 34,675 | 14.13 | — |  |  | 11 |
1928 | Herbert Hoover | 120,725 | 48.49 | Al Smith | 127,797 | 51.33 | — |  |  | 12 |
1924 | Calvin Coolidge | 45,005 | 27.01 | John W. Davis | 112,966 | 67.81 | Robert M. La Follette | 8,084 | 4.85 | 12 |
1920 | Warren G. Harding | 74,556 | 31.37 | James M. Cox | 159,965 | 67.31 | Parley P. Christensen | — | —  | 12 |
1916 | Woodrow Wilson | 99,409 | 76.04 | Charles E. Hughes | 28,662 | 21.92 | — |  |  | 12 |
1912 | Woodrow Wilson | 82,438 | 69.89 | Theodore Roosevelt | 22,680 | 19.23 | William H. Taft | 9,807 | 8.31 | 12 |
1908 | William H. Taft | 25,561 | 24.31 | William Jennings Bryan | 74,391 | 70.75 | — |  |  | 11 |
1904 | Theodore Roosevelt | 22,472 | 20.66 | Alton B. Parker | 79,797 | 73.35 | — |  |  | 11 |
1900 | William McKinley | 55,612 | 34.82 | William Jennings Bryan | 97,129 | 60.82 | — |  |  | 11 |
1896 | William McKinley | 55,673 | 28.61 | William Jennings Bryan | 130,298 | 66.96 | — |  |  | 11 |
1892 | Grover Cleveland | 138,135 | 59.40 | Benjamin Harrison | 9,184 | 3.95 | James B. Weaver | 84,984 | 36.55 | 11 |
1888 | Benjamin Harrison[c] | 57,177 | 32.66 | Grover Cleveland | 117,314 | 67.00 | — |  |  | 10 |
1884 | Grover Cleveland | 92,736 | 60.37 | James G. Blaine | 59,444 | 38.69 | — |  |  | 10 |
1880 | James A. Garfield | 56,350 | 37.10 | Winfield S. Hancock | 91,130 | 59.99 | James B. Weaver | 4,422 | 2.91 | 10 |
1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes[c] | 68,708 | 40.02 | Samuel J. Tilden | 102,989 | 59.98 | — |  |  | 10 |
1872 | Ulysses S. Grant | 90,272 | 53.19 | Horace Greeley | 79,444 | 46.81 | — |  |  | 10 |
1868 | Ulysses S. Grant | 76,667 | 51.3 | Horatio Seymour | 72,921 | 48.7 | — |  |  | 8 |
1864 | Abraham Lincoln | n/a | n/a | George B. McClellan | n/a | n/a | — |  |  | n/a | No vote due to secession.

## Election of 1860

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The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War.

Year  | Winner (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Electoral
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1860 | Abraham Lincoln | no ballots  | —  | Stephen A. Douglas | 13,618  | 15.1  | John C. Breckinridge | 48,669  | 54.0  | John Bell | 27,835  | 30.9  | 9

## Elections from 1828 to 1856

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Year  | Winner (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Other national
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1856 | James Buchanan | 46,739 | 62.08 | John C. Frémont | no ballots | — | Millard Fillmore | 28,552 | 37.92 | 9 | Frémont did not appear on the ballot
1852 | Franklin Pierce | 26,881 | 60.89 | Winfield Scott | 15,061 | 34.12 | John P. Hale | — | — | 9 |
1848 | Zachary Taylor | 30,482 | 49.43 | Lewis Cass | 31,173 | 50.56 | Martin Van Buren | — | — | 9 |
1844 | James K. Polk | 37,401 | 58.99 | Henry Clay | 26,002 | 41.01 | — |  |  | 9 |
1840 | William Henry Harrison | 28,518 | 45.62 | Martin Van Buren | 33,996 | 54.38 | — |  |  | 7 |
1836 | Martin Van Buren | 20,638 | 55.34 | Hugh Lawson White | 16,658 | 44.66 | various[e] |  |  | 7 |
1832 | Andrew Jackson | 14,286 | 99.97 | Henry Clay | 5 | 0.03 | William Wirt | — | — | 7 |
1828 | Andrew Jackson | 16,736 | 89.89 | John Quincy Adams | 1,878 | 10.09 | — |  |  | 5 |

## Election of 1824

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The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailing Democratic-Republican Party, resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party, and competing for influence in different parts of the country. The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote. It was also the only presidential election in which the candidate who received a plurality of electoral votes (Andrew Jackson) did not become president, a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams a corrupt bargain.

Year  | Winner (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Runner-up (nationally)  | Votes  | Percent  | Electoral
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1824 | Andrew Jackson | 9,429 | 69.32 | John Quincy Adams | 2,422 | 17.80 | Henry Clay | 96 | 0.71 | William H. Crawford | 1,656 | 12.17 | 5

## Election of 1820

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In the election of 1820, incumbent President James Monroe ran effectively unopposed, winning all electoral votes (including Alabama's three electoral votes) except one vote in New Hampshire. The popular vote was primarily directed to filling the office of vice president. Alabama had its electors chosen not by the people, but by the State House and Senate. George W. Philips, Henry Minor and John Scott were selected by the legislature and all three men voted for James Monroe.

1820 United States presidential election in Alabama[9]

Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | Percentage  | Electoral votes
| Democratic-Republican | George W. Philips | 63 | 29.72% | 1
| Democratic-Republican  | Henry Minor | 62 | 29.25% | 1
| Democratic-Republican  | John Scott | 56 | 26.42% | 1
| Democratic-Republican  | James S. Walker  | 31  | 14.62%  | 0
Totals | 212 | 100.00% | 3

## See also

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* Elections in Alabama
* List of United States Senate elections in Alabama

## Notes

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1. ^ George Wallace, 1968; Strom Thurmond, 1948.
2. ^ a b For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
3. ^ a b c d Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
4. ^ Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina
5. ^ Three other candidates ran and received electoral votes nationally as part of the unsuccessful Whig strategy to defeat Martin Van Buren by running four candidates with local appeal in different regions of the country. The others were William Henry Harrison, Daniel Webster, and Willie Person Mangum. None of these candidates appeared on the ballot in Alabama.

## References

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1. ^ "Alabama State Canvassing Board Meeting" (PDF). Secretary of State of Alabama. November 26, 2024. Retrieved November 30, 2024.
2. ^ "Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins". The New York Times. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
3. ^ 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
4. ^ 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
5. ^ 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
6. ^ "Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives" (PDF). Federal Elections Commission. May 2005.
7. ^ "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
8. ^ "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
9. ^ "1820 Presidential General Election Results - Alabama". A New Nation Votes. Retrieved June 22, 2018.

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