Lawrence County, Alabama

2024 results by precinct

29 precincts · 16,122 votes cast

Trump · R+62

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−62.3%	2,983	13,024	16,122
2020	R	−54.6%	3,562	12,322	16,031
2016	R	−49.0%	3,627	10,833	14,710
2012	R	−27.0%	5,069	8,874	14,112
2008	R	−28.0%	5,164	9,277	14,680
2004	R	−11.2%	6,155	7,730	14,001
2000	D	+5.1%	6,296	5,671	12,185
1996	D	+13.4%	5,254	3,893	10,143
1992	D	+24.1%	6,364	3,576	11,589
1988	D	+12.2%	4,646	3,616	8,417
1984	D	+4.2%	4,866	4,466	9,494
1980	D	+41.8%	6,112	2,456	8,742
1976	D	+65.1%	6,810	1,415	8,284
1972	R	−51.5%	1,416	4,433	5,863
1968	D	+0.9%	650	580	7,529
1964	R	−50.0%	0	1,809	3,617
1960	D	+36.4%	2,929	1,365	4,301
1956	D	+42.2%	2,961	1,197	4,185
1952	D	+53.1%	2,651	809	3,466
1948	R	−19.8%	0	357	1,806
1944	D	+53.9%	1,893	565	2,463
1940	D	+64.9%	2,277	480	2,769
1936	D	+66.4%	2,213	444	2,663
1932	D	+73.1%	1,920	299	2,219
1928	D	+1.3%	1,035	1,008	2,046
1924	D	+35.5%	990	468	1,472
1920	D	+5.8%	935	831	1,782
1916	D	+82.2%	995	43	1,158
1912	D	+39.2%	643	198	1,134
1908	D	+26.1%	602	344	988
1904	D	+37.4%	909	410	1,334
1900	D	+11.4%	1,262	996	2,324
1896	R	−14.5%	1,248	1,685	3,009
1892	D	+43.4%	1,516	3	3,487
1888	R	−0.3%	1,449	1,457	2,925
1884	R	−5.6%	1,407	1,582	3,135
1880	D	+4.0%	1,555	1,414	3,527
1876	D	+5.6%	1,659	1,484	3,143

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

American

100.0%

African American

7.4%

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: 42.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

0.9%

2.5%

75–84

3.6%

5.3%

65–74

5.9%

7.2%

55–64

7.7%

6.3%

45–54

6.6%

5.7%

35–44

6.0%

5.9%

25–34

6.0%

4.1%

18–24

3.7%

8.5%

5–17

7.6%

3.0%

2.6%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$66,071

Lawrence County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Lawrence County$66,071

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

13.3%

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

47.9%

Other Christian

13.6%

Methodist

3.5%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.0%

Mainline Protestant

1.1%

Catholic & Orthodox

0.5%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 30.4% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Lawrence County, a rural stretch of the Tennessee River valley, delivered a 62-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, reflecting the deep realignment of working-class white voters across the rural South over the past two decades.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Lawrence County peaked at eighty-two points in 1916; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2004 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of eleven points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Lawrence County's median household income of $66,071 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Colbert County and Jackson County.

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