Marion County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

15 precincts · 13,543 votes cast

Trump · R+82

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−81.6%	1,197	12,245	13,543
2020	R	−77.8%	1,463	12,205	13,807
2016	R	−76.4%	1,432	11,274	12,887
2012	R	−61.5%	2,249	9,697	12,105
2008	R	−56.1%	2,600	9,536	12,355
2004	R	−40.2%	3,808	8,983	12,875
2000	R	−19.6%	4,600	6,910	11,756
1996	D	+2.8%	5,049	4,742	10,830
1992	D	+3.6%	6,167	5,692	13,270
1988	R	−13.8%	4,505	5,955	10,497
1984	R	−26.6%	3,918	6,771	10,713
1980	D	+2.5%	5,450	5,182	10,738
1976	D	+34.5%	6,244	3,036	9,303
1972	R	−71.2%	986	5,927	6,942
1968	R	−13.4%	365	1,492	8,403
1964	R	−69.4%	0	3,966	5,713
1960	D	+2.7%	3,099	2,938	6,054
1956	D	+5.8%	2,849	2,536	5,409
1952	D	+31.3%	2,850	1,489	4,348
1948	R	−32.8%	0	813	2,476
1944	D	+19.3%	1,866	1,260	3,137
1940	D	+41.3%	2,654	1,081	3,811
1936	D	+49.1%	2,655	892	3,590
1932	D	+61.8%	2,325	545	2,880
1928	D	+1.7%	1,541	1,488	3,029
1924	D	+99.1%	1,359	0	1,372
1920	D	+13.8%	2,461	1,865	4,329
1916	D	+24.2%	1,325	807	2,141
1912	D	+42.7%	1,098	378	1,688
1908	D	+30.1%	1,100	589	1,700
1904	D	+31.6%	1,224	635	1,864
1900	D	+24.5%	1,137	685	1,845
1896	D	+40.4%	1,201	502	1,729
1892	D	+71.0%	1,207	7	1,689
1888	D	+45.1%	721	273	994
1884	D	+88.6%	446	25	475
1880	D	+84.1%	498	43	541
1876	D	+73.7%	733	111	844

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

African American

2.8%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 43.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

1.8%

3.1%

75–84

3.8%

5.6%

65–74

6.2%

7.0%

55–64

7.0%

6.7%

45–54

6.5%

5.4%

35–44

5.7%

5.9%

25–34

5.8%

4.0%

18–24

3.4%

8.3%

5–17

7.4%

2.6%

2.8%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$50,088

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

Marion County$50,088

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

16.2%

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

34.2%

Other Christian

12.8%

Methodist

3.7%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.3%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.9%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 44.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Marion County, tucked in Alabama's hill country, recorded an R+81.6 margin in 2024—among the widest in the state—reflecting the deep partisan consolidation that has reshaped rural Appalachian Alabama over the past two decades.

The Democratic margin in Marion County peaked at ninety-nine points in 1924. By 2000 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was eighty-two points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Marion County's median household income of $50,088 sits well below state and national norms, and 16% 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 Fayette County and Pawnee County.

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