Walker County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

45 precincts · 29,786 votes cast

Trump · R+72

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−71.7%	4,102	25,464	29,786
2020	R	−67.9%	4,834	26,002	31,170
2016	R	−67.7%	4,497	24,266	29,218
2012	R	−52.9%	6,557	21,651	28,521
2008	R	−46.4%	7,420	20,722	28,652
2004	R	−35.8%	9,016	19,167	28,367
2000	R	−7.3%	11,621	13,486	25,641
1996	D	+12.4%	12,929	9,837	24,939
1992	D	+12.0%	14,831	11,301	29,534
1988	D	+1.4%	11,338	11,011	22,700
1984	R	−9.5%	10,591	12,852	23,753
1980	D	+21.1%	13,616	8,795	22,828
1976	D	+37.3%	16,232	7,389	23,710
1972	R	−58.7%	3,724	14,581	18,507
1968	R	−3.4%	1,971	2,628	19,385
1964	R	−58.4%	0	8,582	14,692
1960	D	+19.5%	8,109	5,463	13,572
1956	D	+19.2%	7,661	5,179	12,919
1952	D	+32.3%	6,862	3,490	10,432
1948	R	−30.7%	0	1,852	6,028
1944	D	+34.4%	4,619	2,241	6,907
1940	D	+49.3%	5,940	2,007	7,971
1936	D	+53.4%	5,697	1,699	7,484
1932	D	+49.5%	4,734	1,583	6,371
1928	D	+7.5%	4,228	3,635	7,863
1924	D	+14.7%	3,351	2,446	6,138
1920	D	+2.3%	4,703	4,488	9,399
1916	D	+10.6%	2,314	1,860	4,301
1912	D	+33.1%	2,063	881	3,575
1908	D	+8.7%	1,632	1,367	3,061
1904	D	+22.8%	1,639	1,024	2,702
1900	R	−15.0%	1,250	1,699	2,992
1896	D	+6.1%	1,248	1,101	2,393
1892	D	+51.6%	1,583	4	3,063
1888	D	+3.6%	1,126	1,047	2,173
1884	D	+2.0%	670	643	1,326
1880	D	+39.3%	539	220	812
1876	D	+22.5%	799	505	1,304

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

African American

5.0%

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: 40.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

1.2%

2.7%

75–84

3.6%

5.3%

65–74

6.3%

6.8%

55–64

7.1%

5.9%

45–54

6.1%

5.7%

35–44

5.6%

6.1%

25–34

6.2%

4.2%

18–24

3.9%

9.0%

5–17

8.2%

2.8%

3.0%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$56,509

Walker County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Walker County$56,509

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

18.5%

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

36.7%

Other Christian

11.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

10.5%

Methodist

4.7%

Catholic & Orthodox

2.5%

Mainline Protestant

0.5%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 33.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Walker County's coal-mining heritage and majority-white, working-class demographics have driven its Republican presidential margins past 70 points, among the widest gaps recorded statewide in recent cycles.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Walker County, by a seven points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-two points in 2024. The 2024 margin was seventy-two points.

The political shift has tracked, in Walker County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 87% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $56,509, and a 19% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Cherokee County and Garvin County.

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