Chambers County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

16 precincts · 14,245 votes cast

Trump · R+23

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−23.2%	5,405	8,711	14,245
2020	R	−15.6%	6,365	8,753	15,284
2016	R	−14.9%	5,784	7,843	13,795
2012	R	−5.2%	6,871	7,626	14,611
2008	R	−8.5%	6,799	8,067	14,956
2004	R	−17.5%	5,347	7,622	13,032
2000	R	−3.6%	5,616	6,037	11,834
1996	D	+7.3%	5,515	4,707	11,097
1992	D	+2.0%	5,938	5,682	13,091
1988	R	−20.0%	5,103	7,694	12,956
1984	R	−20.2%	5,302	8,024	13,463
1980	D	+15.0%	6,649	4,864	11,899
1976	D	+5.7%	6,164	5,488	11,848
1972	R	−60.3%	2,076	8,716	11,003
1968	D	+2.6%	1,358	1,082	10,636
1964	R	−64.4%	0	4,630	7,187
1960	D	+46.5%	5,165	1,865	7,101
1956	D	+55.2%	5,165	1,448	6,737
1952	D	+71.8%	6,155	990	7,190
1948	R	−12.3%	0	218	1,767
1944	D	+89.1%	3,458	194	3,662
1940	D	+94.6%	4,141	110	4,262
1936	D	+93.9%	3,626	112	3,742
1932	D	+76.1%	2,552	342	2,905
1928	R	−26.8%	999	1,732	2,731
1924	D	+84.1%	1,922	146	2,112
1920	D	+71.8%	1,994	322	2,330
1916	D	+80.9%	1,679	168	1,868
1912	D	+89.1%	1,486	28	1,636
1908	D	+88.3%	1,025	50	1,104
1904	D	+86.1%	1,421	74	1,565
1900	D	+52.4%	2,837	835	3,823
1896	D	+30.2%	2,010	1,057	3,157
1892	D	+53.4%	2,321	108	4,146
1888	D	+14.1%	2,115	1,593	3,708
1884	D	+25.6%	1,805	1,069	2,874
1880	D	+36.5%	1,918	884	2,830
1876	D	+36.8%	2,282	1,053	3,337

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

Polish

1.0%

African American

30.7%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 41.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

1.4%

2.6%

75–84

3.8%

5.4%

65–74

6.4%

6.9%

55–64

7.4%

5.9%

45–54

6.7%

5.1%

35–44

5.8%

6.2%

25–34

6.8%

4.1%

18–24

4.0%

7.2%

5–17

8.1%

3.3%

2.3%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$49,656

Chambers County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.

Chambers County$49,656

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

15.7%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

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

35.7%

Methodist

9.2%

Other Christian

7.1%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.8%

Catholic & Orthodox

0.8%

Mainline Protestant

0.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 44.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Chambers County anchors Alabama's eastern border with Georgia, and its once-dominant textile industry has largely shuttered since the 1990s. The county shifted decisively Republican over the following decades as its working-class white majority realigned nationally.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Chambers County, by a four points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at sixty-four points in 1964. The 2024 margin was twenty-three points.

The political shift has tracked, in Chambers County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 55% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $49,656, and a 16% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Screven County and Brooks County.

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