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1876–2024
St. Clair County, Alabama
St. Clair County·Alabama

St. Clair County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.

One of Alabama's most Republican-leaning suburban-rural counties

18762024·38 elections
St. Clair County, Alabama · Rudi Weikard · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+64
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
94,166
2024 ACS
Most similar
Washington County
OK · similarity 1.00
30 precincts · 43,526 votes cast
Trump · R+64
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−64.0%
7,64035,50143,526
2020R
−64.0%
7,74436,16644,441
2016R
−68.7%
5,58931,65137,924
2012R
−66.1%
5,80129,03135,148
2008R
−63.2%
6,09127,64934,088
2004R
−61.9%
5,45623,50029,161
2000R
−44.1%
6,48517,11724,090
1996R
−32.1%
6,18712,76220,489
1992R
−27.4%
6,51712,44721,624
1988R
−41.8%
4,33510,60414,997
1984R
−43.7%
4,00010,40814,654
1980R
−18.5%
5,2367,76813,654
1976D
+7.1%
5,6534,87710,869
1972R
−62.2%
1,5386,9528,710
1968R
−7.9%
8691,6359,697
1964R
−70.8%
04,8136,802
1960D
+8.0%
3,0392,5895,640
1956R
−0.4%
2,4202,4414,975
1952D
+18.8%
2,3261,5903,922
1948R
−35.7%
01,0632,980
1944D
+23.8%
1,8191,1172,950
1940D
+22.9%
2,4621,5404,024
1936D
+50.1%
2,3717773,181
1932D
+46.0%
2,3658643,263
1928R
−32.5%
1,3132,5813,896
1924R
−5.3%
1,2811,4322,828
1920R
−13.5%
1,9342,5614,653
1916D
+7.2%
9878511,899
1912D
+29.1%
7872601,809
1908D
+2.1%
8207821,794
1904D
+16.2%
9085931,941
1900R
−15.4%
7941,1712,445
1896D
+43.9%
1,6046032,279
1892D
+38.1%
1,079782,630
1888D
+39.5%
1,4896402,150
1884D
+15.3%
9016611,572
1880D
+31.0%
9424961,438
1876D
+44.6%
1,1344351,569
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
African American
8.2%
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
27.5%
Other Christian
16.8%
Methodist
2.7%
Pentecostal & Holiness
2.2%
Catholic & Orthodox
1.8%
Mainline Protestant
1.2%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 47.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

St. Clair's R+64 margin in 2024 reflects the lopsided partisanship common to the Appalachian foothills east of Birmingham, where population growth from suburban spillover has done little to shift the county's deeply Republican baseline.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in St. Clair County, by a nineteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-one points in 1964. The 2024 margin was sixty-four points.

The political shift has tracked, in St. Clair County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 84% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $77,463, and a 11% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Washington County and Nassau County.