Dallas County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

29 precincts · 15,547 votes cast

Harris · D+32

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	D	+32.5%	10,236	5,190	15,547
2020	D	+37.5%	12,230	5,524	17,864
2016	D	+37.6%	12,836	5,789	18,721
2012	D	+39.7%	14,612	6,288	20,953
2008	D	+34.5%	13,986	6,798	20,852
2004	D	+20.7%	11,175	7,335	18,573
2000	D	+19.5%	10,967	7,360	18,464
1996	D	+22.1%	10,507	6,612	17,654
1992	D	+18.7%	11,053	7,394	19,604
1988	D	+11.7%	9,660	7,630	17,423
1984	D	+6.6%	10,955	9,585	20,718
1980	D	+11.7%	9,770	7,647	18,147
1976	D	+10.5%	8,866	7,144	16,361
1972	R	−22.5%	5,427	8,644	14,280
1968	D	+31.7%	6,516	1,246	16,636
1964	R	−89.1%	0	5,888	6,607
1960	R	−15.2%	2,103	2,872	5,044
1956	R	−3.8%	2,121	2,324	5,358
1952	R	−10.1%	2,082	2,550	4,632
1948	R	−4.6%	0	132	2,870
1944	D	+89.8%	2,883	149	3,043
1940	D	+90.3%	3,106	157	3,266
1936	D	+96.9%	3,205	49	3,258
1932	D	+93.6%	3,027	93	3,133
1928	D	+46.0%	1,905	705	2,611
1924	D	+89.4%	1,948	50	2,123
1920	D	+94.4%	2,702	78	2,780
1916	D	+96.4%	1,565	23	1,599
1912	D	+95.6%	1,461	16	1,511
1908	D	+95.1%	1,420	28	1,463
1904	D	+94.3%	1,472	36	1,523
1900	D	+91.0%	4,714	161	5,001
1896	D	+76.5%	4,091	519	4,672
1892	D	+67.8%	7,339	1,028	9,314
1888	D	+43.4%	5,302	2,090	7,396
1884	D	+19.8%	3,026	2,023	5,054
1880	D	+23.6%	1,794	1,108	2,902
1876	R	−41.9%	1,609	3,930	5,539

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

African American

56.0%

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: 41.2 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.4%

85+

1.1%

2.8%

75–84

3.8%

5.6%

65–74

6.8%

6.3%

55–64

7.8%

5.0%

45–54

6.3%

5.0%

35–44

6.3%

5.0%

25–34

6.2%

4.1%

18–24

4.0%

9.2%

5–17

8.5%

3.1%

2.8%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$35,627

Dallas County ranks in the bottom 5% of US counties.

Dallas County$35,627

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

31.0%

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

30.7%

Other Christian

11.1%

Methodist

6.6%

Mainline Protestant

2.3%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.1%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.2%

Non-Christian

1.0%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 45.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Dallas County's electorate is majority Black, a demographic legacy of its place at the center of the 1965 Voting Rights Act campaigns, and it consistently returns Democratic presidential margins above 30 points.

The Democratic margin in Dallas County peaked at ninety-seven points in 1936. By 1976 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was thirty-two points, the most Democratic-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Dallas County's median household income of $35,627 sits well below state and national norms, and 31% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The shift here is part of a broader realignment of working-class places across the country. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Coahoma County and Norfolk city.

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Dallas County was solidly one party for decades. In the last twenty years, it flipped.