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1876–2024
Autauga County, Alabama
Autauga County·Alabama

Autauga County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.

One of Alabama's most reliably Republican suburban counties

18762024·38 elections
Autauga County, Alabama · Chris Pruitt · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+46
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
59,947
2024 ACS
Most similar
Elmore County
AL · similarity 1.00
19 precincts · 28,281 votes cast
Trump · R+46
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−46.1%
7,43920,48428,281
2020R
−44.4%
7,50319,83827,770
2016R
−49.6%
5,93618,17224,654
2012R
−46.0%
6,36317,37923,932
2008R
−47.8%
6,09317,40323,641
2004R
−52.0%
4,75815,19620,081
2000R
−41.0%
4,94211,99317,208
1996R
−29.1%
5,0159,50915,422
1992R
−25.0%
4,8198,71515,585
1988R
−35.7%
3,6677,82811,654
1984R
−41.8%
3,3668,35011,917
1980R
−18.1%
4,2956,29211,063
1976D
+1.4%
4,6404,5129,338
1972R
−52.9%
1,5935,3677,140
1968D
+12.2%
1,5536067,776
1964R
−85.8%
02,9693,459
1960D
+6.9%
1,3241,1492,538
1956D
+13.3%
1,1618572,287
1952D
+31.1%
1,5057872,308
1948R
−8.6%
01101,286
1944D
+82.5%
1,2421171,364
1940D
+87.9%
1,630991,741
1936D
+89.2%
1,525841,616
1932D
+80.4%
1,3221381,472
1928D
+12.8%
8836831,566
1924D
+66.6%
781146954
1920D
+62.2%
9182101,139
1916D
+75.9%
77399888
1912D
+68.3%
62243848
1908D
+74.2%
65597752
1904D
+80.9%
73373816
1900D
+28.3%
9805371,563
1896D
+59.0%
1,2812891,680
1892D
+43.1%
926811,960
1888D
+26.5%
8935191,412
1884D
+1.9%
9118771,789
1880D
+0.2%
9789741,967
1876R
−32.4%
8041,5762,380
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
African American
16.3%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
30.6%
Other Christian
9.9%
Methodist
5.8%
Pentecostal & Holiness
2.6%
Catholic & Orthodox
1.6%
Mainline Protestant
0.8%
Non-Christian
0.1%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 48.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Anchored by Prattville and sitting just northwest of Montgomery, Autauga has delivered Republican presidential margins above 40 points in each of the last three cycles, reflecting the deep-red character of central Alabama's fast-growing exurban belt.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Autauga County, by a eighteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty-six points in 1964. The 2024 margin was forty-six points.

The political shift has tracked, in Autauga County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 71% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $72,481, and a 11% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Elmore County and Texas County.