Clay County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

15 precincts · 6,767 votes cast

Trump · R+70

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−70.1%	993	5,734	6,767
2020	R	−62.5%	1,267	5,601	6,930
2016	R	−61.0%	1,237	5,245	6,575
2012	R	−45.6%	1,777	4,817	6,662
2008	R	−47.3%	1,760	4,984	6,819
2004	R	−41.5%	1,893	4,624	6,576
2000	R	−28.5%	2,045	3,719	5,883
1996	R	−7.0%	2,306	2,694	5,568
1992	R	−13.7%	2,073	2,859	5,755
1988	R	−36.2%	1,602	3,496	5,238
1984	R	−39.3%	1,456	3,432	5,033
1980	D	+1.6%	2,858	2,764	5,747
1976	D	+21.9%	2,946	1,883	4,858
1972	R	−76.9%	507	3,948	4,474
1968	R	−8.9%	256	706	5,044
1964	R	−70.1%	0	2,815	4,014
1960	D	+5.9%	1,743	1,548	3,307
1956	D	+2.4%	1,677	1,597	3,323
1952	D	+24.9%	1,972	1,183	3,164
1948	R	−25.8%	0	387	1,502
1944	D	+34.7%	1,535	741	2,290
1940	D	+43.0%	2,153	854	3,023
1936	D	+48.4%	2,138	699	2,976
1932	D	+38.3%	2,104	933	3,059
1928	R	−31.8%	978	1,889	2,868
1924	D	+21.7%	1,597	1,017	2,667
1920	D	+0.7%	2,165	2,133	4,301
1916	D	+27.7%	1,196	677	1,877
1912	D	+49.4%	1,109	64	2,114
1908	D	+18.0%	863	594	1,494
1904	D	+14.9%	1,345	990	2,379
1900	R	−4.4%	990	1,087	2,208
1896	D	+47.0%	1,410	489	1,961
1892	D	+48.2%	1,161	47	2,311
1888	D	+54.4%	1,278	376	1,658
1884	D	+61.4%	1,147	274	1,421
1880	D	+77.4%	1,002	52	1,228
1876	D	+75.5%	1,188	166	1,354

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

Polish

0.9%

African American

10.2%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 44.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.3%

85+

1.0%

3.3%

75–84

4.2%

5.5%

65–74

6.3%

7.7%

55–64

7.5%

6.3%

45–54

7.6%

5.9%

35–44

5.6%

5.7%

25–34

5.3%

3.7%

18–24

3.2%

8.1%

5–17

7.4%

1.9%

3.5%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$55,250

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

Clay County$55,250

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

17.6%

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

53.7%

Methodist

5.8%

Other Christian

5.3%

Pentecostal & Holiness

2.7%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 31.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

A rural Appalachian foothill county of roughly 14,000 residents, Clay delivered a 70-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most one-sided jurisdictions in a state already dominated by that pattern.

The shift began with civil rights. 1984 marked the realignment in Clay County, by a thirty-nine points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-seven points in 1972. The 2024 margin was seventy points.

The political shift has tracked, in Clay County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 80% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $55,250, and a 18% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Washington County and Union County.

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