Geneva County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

21 precincts · 12,401 votes cast

Trump · R+77

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−76.9%	1,391	10,929	12,401
2020	R	−73.8%	1,595	10,848	12,545
2016	R	−72.6%	1,525	9,994	11,668
2012	R	−63.0%	2,039	9,175	11,320
2008	R	−62.5%	2,134	9,417	11,657
2004	R	−59.2%	2,113	8,342	10,520
2000	R	−40.0%	2,769	6,588	9,559
1996	R	−17.3%	3,174	4,725	8,983
1992	R	−12.4%	3,622	4,843	9,867
1988	R	−35.6%	2,685	5,703	8,472
1984	R	−44.1%	2,330	6,308	9,011
1980	R	−0.5%	4,703	4,747	9,628
1976	D	+38.0%	5,983	2,663	8,739
1972	R	−69.2%	1,049	5,851	6,938
1968	D	+1.1%	380	284	8,581
1964	R	−80.7%	0	4,502	5,576
1960	D	+34.0%	3,050	1,502	4,559
1956	D	+40.4%	2,841	1,179	4,118
1952	D	+47.9%	2,703	950	3,656
1948	R	−13.5%	0	286	2,123
1944	D	+67.3%	2,004	385	2,404
1940	D	+74.8%	2,565	364	2,942
1936	D	+79.9%	2,652	295	2,949
1932	D	+80.8%	2,559	270	2,833
1928	R	−1.6%	1,485	1,533	3,018
1924	D	+41.7%	1,191	477	1,713
1920	D	+15.3%	1,488	1,088	2,612
1916	D	+27.4%	1,265	713	2,013
1912	D	+51.5%	891	99	1,538
1908	D	+23.3%	854	500	1,521
1904	D	+17.8%	743	473	1,520
1900	D	+1.5%	679	657	1,461
1896	D	+88.8%	1,246	46	1,352
1892	D	+52.6%	797	0	1,515
1888	D	+98.7%	794	5	799
1884	D	+99.2%	488	0	492
1880	D	+97.4%	460	6	466
1876	D	+99.0%	408	2	410

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

African American

6.9%

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: 43.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.7%

85+

1.5%

2.8%

75–84

3.5%

5.8%

65–74

6.0%

7.3%

55–64

7.5%

6.6%

45–54

6.5%

5.6%

35–44

6.2%

5.6%

25–34

5.4%

3.5%

18–24

3.6%

8.8%

5–17

8.0%

2.6%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$52,771

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

Geneva County$52,771

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

19.2%

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

41.8%

Other Christian

6.0%

Methodist

5.4%

Pentecostal & Holiness

4.1%

Catholic & Orthodox

0.2%

Mainline Protestant

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 42.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Geneva county, tucked into Alabama's wiregrass corner, recorded an R+76.9 margin in 2024 — among the widest presidential spreads in the state — reflecting the deeply rural, majority-white demographic that has defined its voting pattern for decades.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Geneva County peaked at ninety-nine points in 1884; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 1980 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of zero points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Geneva County's median household income of $52,771 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Covington County and Kay County.

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