Cherokee County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

23 precincts · 13,006 votes cast

Trump · R+75

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−75.4%	1,553	11,358	13,006
2020	R	−72.8%	1,624	10,583	12,301
2016	R	−69.6%	1,547	8,953	10,647
2012	R	−55.0%	2,132	7,506	9,779
2008	R	−51.2%	2,306	7,298	9,745
2004	R	−31.9%	3,040	5,923	9,049
2000	R	−8.4%	3,497	4,154	7,823
1996	D	+16.0%	4,399	3,048	8,421
1992	D	+18.8%	4,222	2,745	7,876
1988	D	+5.0%	3,176	2,868	6,101
1984	R	−3.1%	3,029	3,225	6,319
1980	D	+19.9%	3,764	2,482	6,438
1976	D	+50.8%	4,668	1,492	6,256
1972	R	−45.2%	1,182	3,179	4,422
1968	D	+2.1%	462	343	5,685
1964	R	−49.7%	0	1,893	3,809
1960	D	+56.0%	3,097	872	3,973
1956	D	+51.7%	2,661	845	3,513
1952	D	+66.2%	2,664	539	3,211
1948	R	−16.8%	0	217	1,293
1944	D	+62.1%	1,774	408	2,200
1940	D	+74.3%	2,617	381	3,010
1936	D	+69.3%	2,113	375	2,507
1932	D	+67.4%	1,897	359	2,283
1928	R	−25.7%	894	1,515	2,413
1924	D	+23.5%	1,380	845	2,276
1920	D	+10.9%	1,969	1,576	3,603
1916	D	+37.5%	1,136	508	1,676
1912	D	+41.5%	814	88	1,748
1908	D	+7.8%	712	602	1,412
1904	D	+23.8%	905	502	1,692
1900	R	−0.1%	1,167	1,169	2,787
1896	D	+47.2%	1,776	602	2,485
1892	D	+49.8%	1,709	139	3,151
1888	D	+66.3%	1,686	333	2,040
1884	D	+53.2%	1,397	427	1,824
1880	D	+77.1%	1,390	180	1,570
1876	D	+70.1%	1,666	293	1,959

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

Polish

1.4%

African American

3.0%

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: 47.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.5%

85+

1.6%

3.9%

75–84

3.9%

7.3%

65–74

7.2%

7.9%

55–64

7.9%

6.2%

45–54

6.3%

5.6%

35–44

5.2%

5.6%

25–34

5.7%

3.3%

18–24

3.4%

6.9%

5–17

7.1%

2.4%

2.2%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$53,863

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

Cherokee County$53,863

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

14.8%

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

39.7%

Methodist

6.0%

Other Christian

3.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

0.8%

Catholic & Orthodox

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 49.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Cherokee County's R+75.4 margin in 2024 places it among the most heavily one-sided counties in the state, a pattern consistent with the rural, predominantly white Appalachian foothills region it occupies in northeastern Alabama.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Cherokee County peaked at seventy-seven points in 1880; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2000 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of eight points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Cherokee County's median household income of $53,863 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Pittsburg County and Walker County.

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For one hundred twenty years, Cherokee County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.