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1876–2024
Cullman County, Alabama
Cullman County·Alabama

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

One of Alabama's most lopsided presidential margins in 2024

18762024·38 elections
Cullman County, Alabama · Chris Pruitt · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+80
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
90,566
2024 ACS
Most similar
Wagoner County
OK · similarity 1.00
47 precincts · 43,146 votes cast
Trump · R+80
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−80.3%
4,03938,70443,146
2020R
−77.4%
4,47836,88041,851
2016R
−77.9%
3,79832,98937,474
2012R
−69.5%
5,05228,99934,457
2008R
−65.2%
5,86428,89635,305
2004R
−53.3%
8,04526,81835,191
2000R
−31.8%
9,75819,15729,525
1996R
−17.9%
9,54414,30826,553
1992R
−13.6%
10,45114,41129,043
1988R
−25.1%
8,51714,35123,197
1984R
−29.4%
7,98914,78223,126
1980D
+5.9%
11,52510,21222,240
1976D
+30.2%
12,9616,89920,055
1972R
−59.8%
3,57114,39018,091
1968R
−22.3%
1,1154,96417,265
1964R
−58.3%
07,15212,262
1960D
+19.8%
6,3464,24810,599
1956D
+11.4%
5,5104,3819,929
1952D
+21.5%
5,2543,3918,667
1948R
−32.7%
01,7555,364
1944D
+27.6%
3,8982,2026,145
1940D
+29.3%
5,6033,0578,686
1936D
+37.8%
3,7791,7035,497
1932D
+49.5%
2,9109563,944
1928R
−30.6%
1,5742,9594,533
1924D
+4.7%
1,8091,6393,633
1920R
−15.2%
2,5663,4926,101
1916D
+1.6%
1,3961,3512,763
1912D
+33.4%
1,2302642,895
1908R
−9.7%
1,2391,5212,903
1904D
+8.6%
1,4971,2383,018
1900D
+16.2%
1,1678202,143
1896D
+41.6%
1,2024471,816
1892D
+50.4%
1,06662,103
1888D
+44.8%
9203501,272
1884D
+37.0%
506232740
1880D
+34.7%
336163499
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
African American
0.8%
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
37.0%
Other Christian
14.3%
Catholic & Orthodox
3.6%
Mainline Protestant
2.6%
Pentecostal & Holiness
2.5%
Methodist
2.5%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 37.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Cullman County, a predominantly white, rural county in north-central Alabama, recorded an R+80.3 presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most one-sided results in the state and reflecting deep partisan uniformity across its small-town and agricultural communities.

The shift began with civil rights. 1984 marked the realignment in Cullman County, by a twenty-nine points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty points in 2024. The 2024 margin was eighty points.

The political shift has tracked, in Cullman County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 91% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $62,656, and a 15% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Wagoner County and Marshall County.