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1876–2024
Jackson County, Alabama
Jackson County·Alabama

For twenty-four years, Jackson County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.

One of Alabama's most lopsided presidential margins in 2024

18762024·38 elections
Jackson County, Alabama · Carol M. Highsmith · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+71
in 2024
Archetype
Realigner
since the recent cycles
Population
53,053
2024 ACS
Most similar
Latimer County
OK · similarity 1.00
30 precincts · 23,556 votes cast
Trump · R+71
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−71.3%
3,27620,07323,556
2020R
−67.5%
3,71719,67023,636
2016R
−62.7%
3,67316,67220,738
2012R
−41.9%
5,82214,43920,577
2008R
−36.9%
6,37414,08320,874
2004R
−14.3%
8,63511,53420,321
2000D
+3.3%
9,0668,47517,906
1996D
+16.4%
8,2045,65015,558
1992D
+26.0%
10,6285,71118,916
1988D
+9.7%
7,4186,09013,669
1984D
+6.2%
7,6356,73014,582
1980D
+27.3%
8,7764,89714,203
1976D
+46.2%
10,9893,91315,325
1972R
−34.2%
2,9856,2029,410
1968R
−1.5%
1,0221,19110,908
1964R
−46.5%
02,7305,875
1960D
+40.2%
4,7892,0366,848
1956D
+43.5%
4,7581,8686,647
1952D
+48.5%
3,6771,2724,959
1948R
−25.7%
06032,347
1944D
+48.5%
2,9671,0264,000
1940D
+60.2%
3,8189454,772
1936D
+57.6%
3,4509264,383
1932D
+53.6%
3,1129384,058
1928R
−17.7%
2,1533,0815,247
1924D
+35.7%
1,9238852,909
1920D
+25.7%
2,5131,4834,013
1916D
+53.1%
1,9075672,522
1912D
+60.7%
1,5972292,255
1908D
+47.6%
1,4044691,963
1904D
+41.4%
1,6416662,357
1900D
+6.5%
1,9331,6943,691
1896D
+65.8%
3,5566754,379
1892D
+65.0%
3,04404,682
1888D
+38.1%
2,3041,0223,366
1884D
+32.3%
2,2171,0523,611
1880D
+40.4%
2,0595993,614
1876D
+59.0%
2,6896943,383
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
African American
2.6%
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
31.5%
Other Christian
8.7%
Catholic & Orthodox
4.5%
Methodist
3.6%
Pentecostal & Holiness
3.6%
Mainline Protestant
2.0%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 46.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Jackson County, anchored by the Tennessee River valley in Alabama's northeastern corner, recorded an R+71.3 presidential margin in 2024 — among the widest gaps in a state already defined by deep rural Republican dominance.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Jackson County peaked at sixty-six points in 1896; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2004 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of fourteen points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Jackson County's median household income of $51,908 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Latimer County and Lawrence County.