Clarke County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

29 precincts · 11,958 votes cast

Trump · R+17

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−17.0%	4,927	6,965	11,958
2020	R	−11.9%	5,755	7,324	13,135
2016	R	−10.7%	5,749	7,140	12,988
2012	R	−8.2%	6,334	7,470	13,851
2008	R	−11.6%	5,914	7,466	13,435
2004	R	−18.5%	4,627	6,730	11,394
2000	R	−12.2%	4,679	5,988	10,752
1996	D	+0.5%	4,831	4,785	10,118
1992	R	−4.0%	5,023	5,495	11,717
1988	R	−14.9%	4,217	5,708	10,020
1984	R	−16.9%	4,452	6,282	10,811
1980	D	+1.8%	5,249	5,059	10,663
1976	D	+6.8%	4,737	4,126	9,006
1972	R	−43.5%	2,031	5,256	7,414
1968	D	+14.2%	1,717	488	8,626
1964	R	−82.8%	0	4,460	5,384
1960	R	−3.5%	1,878	2,016	3,967
1956	D	+22.3%	1,962	1,246	3,215
1952	D	+41.1%	3,121	1,303	4,425
1948	R	−2.2%	0	47	2,110
1944	D	+88.1%	2,263	142	2,408
1940	D	+97.4%	3,753	48	3,802
1936	D	+95.5%	2,673	60	2,735
1932	D	+95.5%	2,408	53	2,465
1928	D	+27.9%	1,662	936	2,598
1924	D	+85.2%	1,059	78	1,152
1920	D	+92.9%	1,253	43	1,302
1916	D	+95.7%	1,397	25	1,434
1912	D	+94.1%	1,024	13	1,074
1908	D	+89.7%	1,169	56	1,241
1904	D	+85.1%	1,131	79	1,236
1900	D	+69.0%	2,066	372	2,456
1896	D	+62.4%	2,243	502	2,792
1892	D	+40.0%	1,561	371	2,974
1888	D	+11.8%	1,566	1,235	2,801
1884	D	+8.1%	1,045	888	1,933
1880	D	+21.2%	1,138	740	1,878
1876	D	+11.3%	1,406	1,120	2,526

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

Polish

1.3%

African American

35.8%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 42.8 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

1.7%

2.9%

75–84

3.9%

5.6%

65–74

6.1%

6.8%

55–64

7.4%

5.7%

45–54

6.4%

5.2%

35–44

5.8%

5.7%

25–34

6.2%

4.2%

18–24

4.1%

7.7%

5–17

8.0%

3.0%

2.9%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$49,249

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

Clarke County$49,249

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

20.1%

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

46.8%

Methodist

14.5%

Other Christian

7.0%

Pentecostal & Holiness

6.2%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.0%

Mainline Protestant

0.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 24.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Clarke County's population has declined steadily over recent decades as timber-dependent communities contracted, leaving a sparse, rural electorate that has swung heavily toward Republican presidential candidates in each successive cycle.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Clarke County, by a twelve points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty-three points in 1964. The 2024 margin was seventeen points.

The political shift has tracked, in Clarke County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 51% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $49,249, and a 20% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Attala County and Winston County.

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