Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL
Year
Total registered
2018
944,869
2020
1,005,352
2022
988,921
2024
1,029,281
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+2,236 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +8,222 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL in Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−3,500
2012
−1,355
2013
+1,043
2014
−647
2015
−168
2016
−1,253
2017
−253
2018
+417
2019
+619
2021
+2,476
2022
+1,634
2023
+3,771
2024
+3,202
2025
+2,236
Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL sits in the Black Belt and Gulf South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 65.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 70.7 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 4.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.9 points.
A population of 1,366,500, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,829 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope, AL and Hattiesburg-Laurel, MS.
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The combined metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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How did Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL, Alabama vote in 2024?
In 2024, Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL, Alabama voted Republican by 24.9 points (R+24.9), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 625,561 votes cast, 230,249 went Democratic and 386,162 went Republican.
When did Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL, Alabama last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL, Alabama voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL, Alabama?
Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL, Alabama has a population of 1,366,500 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL, Alabama?
Median household income in Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL, Alabama is $70,829 — below the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL, Alabama?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL, Alabama from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
