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1876–2024
Baldwin County, Alabama
Baldwin County·Alabama

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

One of the South's fastest-growing coastal counties, tilting hard right

18762024·38 elections
Baldwin County, Alabama · Chris Pruitt · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+58
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
246,989
2024 ACS
Most similar
Thomas County
NE · similarity 1.00
59 precincts · 122,249 votes cast
Trump · R+58
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−58.0%
24,93495,798122,249
2020R
−53.8%
24,57883,544109,679
2016R
−58.0%
18,45872,88393,805
2012R
−55.8%
18,42466,01685,338
2008R
−51.4%
19,38661,27181,413
2004R
−53.9%
15,59952,97169,320
2000R
−47.6%
13,99740,87256,480
1996R
−35.5%
12,77629,48747,119
1992R
−30.3%
12,19526,27046,476
1988R
−46.8%
9,27125,93335,598
1984R
−53.5%
7,27224,96433,045
1980R
−36.0%
8,44818,65228,353
1976R
−17.7%
9,19113,25622,967
1972R
−66.3%
2,92315,10418,375
1968R
−1.8%
1,8212,15418,404
1964R
−81.1%
010,87013,400
1960D
+7.9%
5,6474,81210,636
1956R
−4.9%
3,8784,2938,415
1952D
+3.1%
3,3863,1796,617
1948R
−22.3%
07673,445
1944D
+47.9%
2,0026952,727
1940D
+59.0%
2,6816173,501
1936D
+64.2%
2,3374332,966
1932D
+55.9%
2,0975442,780
1928R
−2.6%
1,3171,3882,719
1924D
+24.0%
1,0235491,978
1920D
+34.8%
1,2305561,937
1916D
+48.2%
7662161,140
1912D
+63.3%
62337926
1908D
+51.6%
439109639
1904D
+53.4%
454126614
1900D
+5.2%
444396921
1896D
+27.3%
7264041,181
1892D
+38.4%
9123821,382
1888D
+13.9%
7245471,271
1884D
+5.0%
7767021,488
1880D
+7.2%
7676631,453
1876D
+8.8%
7896621,451
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
African American
6.5%
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
16.6%
Catholic & Orthodox
13.6%
Other Christian
9.8%
Methodist
6.1%
Pentecostal & Holiness
4.0%
Mainline Protestant
3.4%
Non-Christian
0.1%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 46.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Baldwin County's Gulf Coast growth has drawn retirees and transplants without softening its Republican lean — the 2024 presidential margin of R+58 ranks among the widest in Alabama.

The shift began with civil rights. 1964 marked the realignment in Baldwin County, by a eighty-one points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty-one points in 1964. The 2024 margin was fifty-eight points.

The political shift has tracked, in Baldwin County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 82% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $78,775, and a 10% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Thomas County and Pickens County.