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1876–2024
Bibb County, Alabama
Bibb County·Alabama

For one hundred four years, Bibb County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.

One of Alabama's most lopsided presidential counties in 2024

18762024·38 elections
Bibb County, Alabama · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+64
in 2024
Archetype
Realigner
since the recent cycles
Population
22,130
2024 ACS
Most similar
Grady County
OK · similarity 1.00
8 precincts · 9,257 votes cast
Trump · R+64
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−64.3%
1,6197,5729,257
2020R
−57.7%
1,9867,5259,595
2016R
−55.7%
1,8746,7388,736
2012R
−46.7%
2,2026,1328,420
2008R
−45.8%
2,2996,2628,644
2004R
−44.5%
2,0895,4727,600
2000R
−22.0%
2,7104,2737,101
1996R
−4.2%
2,7753,0376,301
1992R
−3.3%
2,9003,1246,720
1988R
−12.5%
2,2442,8855,146
1984R
−23.2%
2,1673,4875,687
1980D
+10.8%
3,0972,4915,623
1976D
+28.1%
2,8501,5914,474
1972R
−58.7%
8373,3324,248
1968D
+8.3%
6522634,673
1964R
−83.9%
02,6233,125
1960D
+23.4%
1,6971,0522,752
1956D
+18.1%
1,4711,0042,582
1952D
+42.9%
1,9717842,769
1948R
−9.2%
01231,343
1944D
+67.5%
1,2872441,546
1940D
+81.9%
1,8211732,012
1936D
+81.2%
1,8681902,066
1932D
+82.3%
1,6361451,812
1928D
+8.4%
1,1881,0032,199
1924D
+45.4%
8752511,374
1920D
+59.5%
1,6433642,148
1916D
+64.9%
1,2472171,587
1912D
+68.4%
820401,141
1908D
+57.8%
670139918
1904D
+71.2%
1,0851551,306
1900D
+19.0%
7254821,277
1896D
+38.7%
1,5166502,235
1892D
+47.4%
1,152222,384
1888D
+18.6%
9606571,626
1884D
+38.5%
622275901
1880D
+74.9%
737106843
1876D
+45.5%
8903331,223
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
Polish
0.6%
African American
15.8%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
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
37.1%
Other Christian
5.5%
Methodist
3.1%
Pentecostal & Holiness
2.6%
Mainline Protestant
0.6%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 51.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Bibb County, a rural stretch of central Alabama with a population under 21,000, recorded an R+64.3 margin in 2024 — placing it among the state's most consistently one-sided presidential jurisdictions over the past two decades.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Bibb County peaked at eighty-two points in 1932; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 1984 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of twenty-three points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Bibb County's median household income of $52,541 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Grady County and Lamar County.