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1876–2024
Coosa County, Alabama
Coosa County·Alabama

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

One of Alabama's least-populous counties, with margins to match its rural depth

18762024·38 elections
Coosa County, Alabama · Rivers A. Langley; SaveRivers · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+43
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
10,300
2024 ACS
Most similar
Putnam County
FL · similarity 1.00
12 precincts · 5,268 votes cast
Trump · R+43
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−43.3%
1,4783,7585,268
2020R
−33.5%
1,7963,6315,479
2016R
−30.7%
1,7823,3815,216
2012R
−16.3%
2,1913,0495,269
2008R
−17.5%
2,2733,2485,563
2004R
−17.0%
2,0552,9055,001
2000R
−6.1%
2,1042,3824,567
1996D
+9.7%
2,1211,7214,131
1992D
+7.4%
2,3301,9734,798
1988R
−12.7%
1,8602,4054,283
1984R
−18.3%
1,7812,5854,385
1980D
+15.9%
2,3831,7144,209
1976D
+35.5%
2,5331,1963,766
1972R
−54.9%
7732,6723,461
1968D
+7.7%
6233303,811
1964R
−72.8%
01,9782,718
1960D
+16.3%
1,4931,0732,575
1956D
+13.5%
1,4111,0702,519
1952D
+31.1%
1,5017882,291
1948R
−24.5%
02751,124
1944D
+46.3%
1,0793941,481
1940D
+61.4%
1,3473171,677
1936D
+68.5%
1,3462391,617
1932D
+66.3%
1,2652501,531
1928R
−21.3%
6991,0781,778
1924D
+21.5%
7905081,314
1920D
+15.1%
1,0077411,764
1916D
+27.5%
8674851,389
1912D
+54.2%
7631091,206
1908D
+21.7%
7174471,244
1904D
+30.3%
9334721,523
1900D
+0.4%
9599511,981
1896D
+42.2%
1,2934991,880
1892D
+36.0%
9541072,356
1888D
+28.5%
1,3297392,068
1884D
+24.9%
1,3618172,184
1880D
+22.8%
1,2968122,122
1876D
+29.5%
1,3477332,080
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
African American
23.4%
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
30.6%
Other Christian
13.1%
Methodist
2.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
0.7%
Mainline Protestant
0.4%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 52.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Coosa County's population has dwindled for decades alongside its timber and agricultural economy, and its electorate now delivers some of the widest presidential margins in a state already dominated by lopsided rural patterns.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Coosa County, by a six points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-three points in 1964. The 2024 margin was forty-three points.

The political shift has tracked, in Coosa County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 66% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $57,355, and a 13% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Putnam County and Treutlen County.