Fayette County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

24 precincts · 8,369 votes cast

Trump · R+72

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−71.9%	1,142	7,158	8,369
2020	R	−67.4%	1,395	7,300	8,766
2016	R	−65.4%	1,362	6,712	8,183
2012	R	−53.3%	1,817	6,054	7,946
2008	R	−48.9%	1,994	5,883	7,957
2004	R	−39.1%	2,408	5,534	8,002
2000	R	−19.4%	3,064	4,582	7,808
1996	D	+2.6%	3,381	3,191	7,209
1992	D	+2.7%	3,830	3,604	8,470
1988	R	−15.2%	3,186	4,338	7,557
1984	R	−29.5%	2,533	4,654	7,201
1980	D	+1.1%	3,389	3,315	6,789
1976	D	+30.4%	4,076	2,165	6,287
1972	R	−67.1%	836	4,240	5,076
1968	R	−2.4%	676	827	6,238
1964	R	−71.3%	0	3,203	4,490
1960	D	+8.3%	2,274	1,923	4,205
1956	D	+0.2%	1,956	1,948	3,928
1952	D	+21.3%	2,287	1,481	3,779
1948	R	−35.8%	0	580	1,622
1944	D	+28.6%	1,648	913	2,571
1940	D	+47.5%	2,091	737	2,848
1936	D	+50.4%	2,244	732	2,999
1932	D	+46.2%	2,013	733	2,769
1928	R	−19.7%	1,131	1,686	2,818
1924	D	+16.1%	1,358	977	2,368
1920	R	−13.7%	1,413	1,865	3,309
1916	D	+18.7%	1,026	697	1,756
1912	D	+21.6%	762	434	1,522
1908	D	+3.4%	731	678	1,548
1904	D	+7.4%	712	599	1,519
1900	R	−12.0%	698	892	1,610
1896	D	+45.5%	1,222	441	1,716
1892	D	+33.2%	728	158	1,718
1888	D	+46.3%	864	315	1,186
1884	D	+39.2%	737	322	1,060
1880	D	+49.0%	631	202	876
1876	D	+55.6%	935	267	1,202

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

African American

8.9%

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: 43.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.4%

85+

1.1%

3.7%

75–84

3.9%

5.7%

65–74

7.0%

6.8%

55–64

7.1%

6.3%

45–54

5.7%

6.1%

35–44

5.7%

5.1%

25–34

5.9%

3.5%

18–24

4.6%

8.9%

5–17

7.6%

2.5%

2.2%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$49,488

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

Fayette County$49,488

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

21.8%

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

36.6%

Other Christian

10.9%

Methodist

7.2%

Pentecostal & Holiness

4.5%

Mainline Protestant

0.7%

Catholic & Orthodox

0.5%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 39.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Fayette County, a rural stretch of the Alabama hill country, recorded an R+71.9 margin in 2024 — among the widest in the state — reflecting the deep partisan realignment that has reshaped small-town Appalachian Alabama over the past two decades.

The Democratic margin in Fayette County peaked at fifty-six points in 1876. By 2000 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was seventy-two points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Fayette County's median household income of $49,488 sits well below state and national norms, and 22% 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 Marion County and Franklin County.

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