Butler County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

21 precincts · 8,480 votes cast

Trump · R+23

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−22.7%	3,251	5,172	8,480
2020	R	−15.7%	3,965	5,458	9,488
2016	R	−13.5%	3,726	4,901	8,692
2012	R	−7.5%	4,374	5,087	9,496
2008	R	−13.4%	4,188	5,485	9,709
2004	R	−18.6%	3,413	4,979	8,416
2000	R	−6.7%	3,606	4,127	7,803
1996	D	+6.1%	3,828	3,352	7,770
1992	D	+6.2%	4,021	3,494	8,478
1988	R	−6.1%	3,465	3,923	7,459
1984	R	−14.9%	3,641	4,941	8,709
1980	D	+4.1%	4,156	3,810	8,368
1976	D	+18.9%	4,271	2,909	7,208
1972	R	−53.6%	1,401	4,685	6,128
1968	D	+10.1%	1,240	500	7,361
1964	R	−80.4%	0	4,002	4,975
1960	D	+39.8%	2,872	1,231	4,121
1956	D	+17.9%	1,958	1,324	3,533
1952	D	+38.4%	2,440	1,087	3,528
1948	R	−6.5%	0	91	1,409
1944	D	+91.8%	1,915	80	2,000
1940	D	+96.1%	2,732	52	2,788
1936	D	+92.9%	2,358	83	2,448
1932	D	+93.3%	2,280	74	2,364
1928	D	+27.7%	1,235	699	1,934
1924	D	+75.8%	1,050	95	1,260
1920	D	+77.9%	1,299	153	1,471
1916	D	+86.8%	1,162	78	1,249
1912	D	+75.1%	903	86	1,088
1908	D	+65.3%	727	137	904
1904	D	+75.6%	805	83	955
1900	R	−20.8%	744	1,161	2,001
1896	D	+34.8%	1,809	846	2,770
1892	D	+32.3%	1,313	253	3,283
1888	D	+17.0%	1,905	1,347	3,277
1884	D	+22.7%	1,724	1,080	2,833
1880	D	+40.3%	2,026	861	2,889
1876	D	+32.1%	1,956	1,005	2,961

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

Polish

1.8%

African American

35.8%

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

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: 42.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.7%

85+

1.3%

3.0%

75–84

4.5%

5.5%

65–74

7.0%

5.7%

55–64

7.0%

5.8%

45–54

6.6%

5.8%

35–44

6.6%

5.0%

25–34

5.8%

4.1%

18–24

3.5%

8.6%

5–17

7.9%

2.2%

3.4%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$44,755

Butler County ranks in the bottom 10% of US counties.

Butler County$44,755

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

22.4%

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

33.2%

Other Christian

16.8%

Methodist

4.8%

Mainline Protestant

3.1%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.8%

Catholic & Orthodox

0.5%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 38.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Butler County sits in Alabama's Black Belt region, where a majority-Black population and persistent rural poverty produce distinctive voting coalitions. The 2024 presidential margin of R+22.6 reflects ongoing realignment in this historically contested corridor.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Butler County, by a seven points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty points in 1964. The 2024 margin was twenty-three points.

The political shift has tracked, in Butler County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 51% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $44,755, and a 22% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Long County and Treutlen County.

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