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1876–2024
Mobile County, Alabama
Mobile County·Alabama

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

Alabama's second-largest county anchors a Gulf Coast industrial corridor

18762024·38 elections
Mobile County, Alabama · Altairisfar · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+16
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
412,590
2024 ACS
Most similar
Scott County
MS · similarity 1.00
80 precincts · 175,164 votes cast
Trump · R+16
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−16.4%
72,055100,759175,164
2020R
−11.9%
79,474101,243183,164
2016R
−13.4%
72,18695,116170,593
2012R
−9.2%
78,76094,893174,864
2008R
−8.7%
82,18198,049181,424
2004R
−18.0%
63,73292,014156,771
2000R
−14.0%
58,64078,162139,745
1996R
−9.2%
54,74966,775130,103
1992R
−12.5%
54,96272,935143,788
1988R
−22.5%
45,52472,203118,597
1984R
−26.5%
47,25281,923130,959
1980R
−18.2%
46,18067,515116,992
1976R
−3.4%
50,26453,835105,876
1972R
−49.0%
20,69462,63985,634
1968D
+8.8%
18,61510,50991,936
1964R
−70.7%
049,49369,981
1960D
+7.4%
28,62624,60854,542
1956R
−8.8%
17,16320,63939,534
1952D
+1.1%
14,47314,15328,715
1948R
−19.4%
02,68513,835
1944D
+52.9%
9,4392,86712,423
1940D
+71.1%
11,4801,88713,493
1936D
+82.1%
11,1651,07212,299
1932D
+69.4%
9,6581,71011,447
1928D
+8.2%
5,9655,05811,033
1924D
+36.4%
4,1251,8146,355
1920D
+38.7%
6,1712,6819,023
1916D
+54.8%
2,9688323,896
1912D
+76.3%
3,0091403,762
1908D
+61.0%
2,4224533,228
1904D
+80.5%
3,2833253,675
1900D
+12.9%
2,9392,2435,387
1896D
+15.9%
3,9482,7787,357
1892D
+60.7%
4,6803977,056
1888D
+10.0%
3,1092,5425,651
1884D
+0.3%
2,8062,7875,609
1880D
+7.5%
3,7843,2397,224
1876D
+11.0%
5,3304,2729,602
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
Polish
0.8%
African American
28.7%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
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.
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
29.4%
Other Christian
16.6%
Catholic & Orthodox
10.8%
Pentecostal & Holiness
7.0%
Methodist
5.7%
Mainline Protestant
2.1%
Non-Christian
1.5%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 26.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Mobile County's port economy and sizable Black population—roughly 35% of residents—create a more competitive baseline than most of rural Alabama, yet the county still delivered a 16-point Republican margin in 2024.

The shift began with civil rights. 1972 marked the realignment in Mobile County, by a forty-nine points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-one points in 1964. The 2024 margin was sixteen points.

The political shift has tracked, in Mobile County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 56% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $58,880, and a 16% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Scott County and Culpeper County.