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1876–2024
Monroe County, Alabama
Monroe County·Alabama

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

Rural southwest Alabama county where Harper Lee set her most famous work

18762024·38 elections
Monroe County, Alabama · Melinda Shelton · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+23
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
19,388
2024 ACS
Most similar
Leake County
MS · similarity 0.99
27 precincts · 9,815 votes cast
Trump · R+23
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−23.1%
3,7406,0079,815
2020R
−15.9%
4,4556,14710,668
2016R
−14.3%
4,3325,79510,215
2012R
−7.7%
4,9145,74110,708
2008R
−10.2%
5,0256,17511,252
2004R
−22.7%
3,6665,8319,534
2000R
−15.8%
3,7415,1538,951
1996R
−6.5%
3,8154,3828,698
1992R
−10.7%
3,8724,9199,745
1988R
−20.9%
3,5095,3798,954
1984R
−22.5%
3,7255,9179,756
1980R
−3.9%
4,2624,6159,072
1976D
+2.7%
3,6693,4767,263
1972R
−51.1%
1,6365,1556,890
1968D
+17.7%
1,6733757,324
1964R
−81.4%
03,8704,756
1960D
+36.2%
2,1309893,153
1956D
+44.3%
2,0697592,958
1952D
+60.4%
2,5876373,231
1948R
−1.8%
0311,725
1944D
+95.3%
1,991462,041
1940D
+96.8%
2,953403,008
1936D
+97.4%
2,558292,596
1932D
+93.3%
1,972662,043
1928D
+11.5%
1,3431,0742,347
1924D
+94.3%
1,155221,202
1920D
+96.0%
1,295201,328
1916D
+96.5%
1,029171,049
1912D
+96.9%
8782904
1908D
+94.6%
85618886
1904D
+88.6%
83646892
1900D
+71.5%
9091451,068
1896
No data
000
1892D
+72.0%
1,85082,557
1888D
+30.7%
1,4457672,212
1884D
+16.6%
1,1117941,905
1880D
+13.9%
1,0878211,908
1876D
+43.3%
1,5326062,138
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
African American
33.5%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
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.
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
43.2%
Methodist
10.0%
Other Christian
6.5%
Pentecostal & Holiness
4.2%
Mainline Protestant
1.1%
Catholic & Orthodox
0.7%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 34.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Monroe County's population has declined steadily for decades, leaving an older, rural electorate that has voted Republican by double-digit margins in every presidential race since the 1990s.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Monroe County, by a four points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty-one points in 1964. The 2024 margin was twenty-three points.

The political shift has tracked, in Monroe County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 54% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $42,292, and a 20% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Leake County and Richmond County.