Franklin County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

24 precincts · 12,097 votes cast

Trump · R+73

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−73.2%	1,568	10,417	12,097
2020	R	−65.9%	2,086	10,376	12,578
2016	R	−61.1%	2,197	9,466	11,901
2012	R	−40.5%	3,171	7,567	10,859
2008	R	−39.2%	3,469	8,048	11,693
2004	R	−25.9%	4,514	7,690	12,269
2000	R	−11.9%	4,793	6,119	11,103
1996	D	+5.5%	5,028	4,449	10,482
1992	D	+9.8%	5,953	4,794	11,858
1988	R	−1.8%	4,961	5,146	10,241
1984	R	−7.0%	4,601	5,304	10,027
1980	D	+15.7%	6,136	4,448	10,763
1976	D	+30.2%	6,279	3,345	9,721
1972	R	−51.7%	1,840	5,877	7,812
1968	R	−21.3%	588	2,524	9,096
1964	R	−56.4%	0	4,025	7,135
1960	R	−8.6%	3,422	4,069	7,507
1956	R	−0.7%	3,354	3,399	6,769
1952	D	+17.6%	3,461	2,424	5,893
1948	R	−44.1%	0	2,555	5,794
1944	D	+18.7%	2,709	1,853	4,568
1940	D	+27.7%	3,523	1,989	5,533
1936	D	+23.9%	3,059	1,875	4,964
1932	D	+29.8%	2,876	1,547	4,457
1928	R	−12.6%	2,279	2,937	5,222
1924	R	−5.2%	1,985	2,208	4,261
1920	R	−16.4%	2,094	2,930	5,089
1916	D	+2.9%	1,044	984	2,074
1912	D	+30.0%	849	309	1,803
1908	R	−0.1%	650	652	1,363
1904	D	+6.6%	767	668	1,507
1900	R	−16.0%	814	1,151	2,110
1896	D	+38.1%	1,108	483	1,641
1892	D	+65.9%	1,290	23	1,922
1888	D	+53.7%	784	236	1,020
1884	D	+33.6%	763	368	1,174
1880	D	+41.4%	655	239	1,004
1876	D	+70.3%	781	136	917

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

African American

3.3%

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: 38.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

1.2%

2.2%

75–84

3.1%

4.6%

65–74

5.0%

5.9%

55–64

6.3%

6.0%

45–54

6.3%

6.7%

35–44

6.5%

6.0%

25–34

6.0%

4.3%

18–24

4.0%

9.3%

5–17

9.1%

3.2%

3.6%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$53,338

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

Franklin County$53,338

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

19.1%

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

34.5%

Other Christian

12.8%

Catholic & Orthodox

6.3%

Methodist

4.9%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.9%

Mainline Protestant

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 37.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Franklin County's R+73.2 margin in 2024 places it among the most one-sided counties in the state, a pattern consistent with rural northwest Alabama's decades-long shift toward straight-ticket Republican voting in federal contests.

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

The economic context is the key. Franklin County's median household income of $53,338 sits well below state and national norms, and 19% 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 Le Flore County and Nowata County.

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