Lamar County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

25 precincts · 6,890 votes cast

Trump · R+76

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−75.9%	806	6,033	6,890
2020	R	−72.2%	978	6,174	7,193
2016	R	−69.2%	1,036	5,823	6,921
2012	R	−53.2%	1,646	5,457	7,166
2008	R	−53.8%	1,614	5,419	7,075
2004	R	−42.7%	1,956	4,894	6,885
2000	R	−25.1%	2,653	4,470	7,249
1996	R	−1.7%	2,843	2,955	6,410
1992	R	−6.0%	2,849	3,262	6,898
1988	R	−17.1%	2,274	3,214	5,496
1984	R	−34.7%	1,910	3,943	5,867
1980	D	+9.5%	3,366	2,778	6,186
1976	D	+37.1%	3,860	1,739	5,724
1972	R	−61.8%	766	3,283	4,075
1968	R	−1.0%	302	364	5,925
1964	R	−72.4%	0	2,734	3,775
1960	D	+41.9%	2,386	964	3,391
1956	D	+48.1%	2,501	867	3,399
1952	D	+61.2%	2,512	605	3,118
1948	R	−11.1%	0	180	1,622
1944	D	+72.9%	2,025	310	2,352
1940	D	+81.0%	2,665	275	2,952
1936	D	+84.7%	2,393	195	2,594
1932	D	+78.8%	2,207	258	2,473
1928	D	+27.4%	1,412	804	2,216
1924	D	+60.3%	1,087	262	1,369
1920	D	+47.4%	1,628	576	2,220
1916	D	+60.9%	1,299	303	1,635
1912	D	+72.1%	816	61	1,047
1908	D	+67.2%	839	160	1,010
1904	D	+58.8%	848	215	1,076
1900	D	+26.2%	890	509	1,452
1896	D	+40.5%	1,263	509	1,863
1892	D	+68.7%	1,458	31	2,077
1888	D	+64.6%	1,133	243	1,377
1884	D	+55.9%	828	234	1,062
1880	D	+66.5%	856	172	1,028
1876	D	+71.7%	1,201	198	1,399

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

African American

8.0%

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: 44.2 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

0.9%

3.7%

75–84

4.6%

6.0%

65–74

6.7%

6.8%

55–64

7.2%

6.5%

45–54

6.1%

5.0%

35–44

5.7%

25–34

5.5%

3.5%

18–24

3.4%

7.8%

5–17

8.4%

3.2%

2.7%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$50,000

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

Lamar County$50,000

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

18.0%

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

36.1%

Other Christian

18.0%

Methodist

8.2%

Pentecostal & Holiness

7.2%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 30.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Lamar County, tucked against the Mississippi border in Alabama's hill country, recorded a 75.9-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, reflecting the deep partisan consolidation that has reshaped rural northwest Alabama over the past two decades.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Lamar County peaked at eighty-five points in 1936; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 1984 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of thirty-five points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Lamar County's median household income of $50,000 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Itawamba County and Creek County.

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