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State House District 12·Alabama

Alabama 12th State House District voted Democratic for a century; it now votes Republican by 80 points.

18762024·38 elections
AL
Latest
R+80
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
50,206
2024 ACS

Alabama 12th State House District, Alabama: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+80%. Republican peak: R+80 in 2024.

Key facts

2024 presidential margin
R+80MIT Election Lab
Political archetype
Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
Population
50,2062024 5-year
Median household income
$62,6562024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic)
90.6%2024 5-year
Black
1.0%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino
5.0%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin
D+50 in 1892MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin
R+80 in 2024MIT Election Lab
1 counties · 0 D · 1 R
R+60
D+60
One cell per constituent county. Ordered by 2024 D-vs-R margin (bluest first). Hover for county-level numbers.
Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
R
−80.3%
2,23921,45623,919
R
−77.4%
2,48220,44523,201
R
−77.9%
2,10518,28820,774
R
−69.5%
2,80116,07619,102
R
−65.2%
3,25116,01919,572
R
−53.3%
4,46014,86719,509
R
−31.8%
5,40910,62016,368
R
−17.9%
5,2917,93214,720
R
−13.6%
5,7947,98916,100
R
−25.1%
4,7227,95612,860
R
−29.4%
4,4298,19512,820
D
+5.9%
6,3895,66112,329
D
+30.2%
7,1853,82511,118
R
−59.8%
1,9807,97710,029
O
−22.3%
6182,7529,571
R
−58.3%
03,9656,798
D
+19.8%
3,5182,3555,876
D
+11.4%
3,0552,4295,504
D
+21.5%
2,9131,8804,805
O
−32.7%
09732,974
D
+27.6%
2,1611,2213,407
D
+29.3%
3,1061,6954,815
D
+37.8%
2,0959443,047
D
+49.5%
1,6135302,186
R
−30.5%
8731,6402,513
D
+4.7%
1,0039092,014
R
−15.2%
1,4221,9363,382
D
+1.6%
7747491,532
O
+33.4%
6821461,605
R
−9.7%
6878431,609
D
+8.6%
8306861,673
D
+16.2%
6474551,188
D
+41.5%
6662481,007
D
+50.4%
59131,166
D
+44.8%
510194705
D
+37.1%
281129410
D
+34.7%
18690277
No data

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
21.5%
English
15.4%
German
14.4%
Irish
13.4%
Scottish
2.6%
Italian
1.8%
Polish
0.7%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. 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
95.6%
speak English only
Spanish3.8%
Asian & Pacific Islander0.3%
Other Indo-European0.2%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
37.0%
Other Christian
14.3%
Catholic & Orthodox
3.6%
Mainline Protestant
2.6%
Methodist
2.5%
Pentecostal & Holiness
2.5%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 37.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Alabama 12th State House District sits in the Black Belt and Gulf South. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the lingering memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in Alabama 12th State House District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.

The shift began with civil rights. 1984 marked the realignment in Alabama 12th State House District, by a twenty-nine points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty points in 2024. The 2024 margin was eighty points.

The political shift has tracked, in Alabama 12th State House District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 91% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $62,656, and a 15% poverty rate describe the demographic context.

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Frequently asked questions

How did State House District 12, Alabama vote in 2024?
In 2024, State House District 12, Alabama voted Republican by 80.3 points (R+80), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 23,919 votes cast, 2,239 went Democratic and 21,456 went Republican.
What is State House District 12, Alabama's political archetype?
Akashic classifies State House District 12, Alabama as a "Old Confederacy" district based on its long-arc presidential voting pattern. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the district has voted Democratic 18 times, Republican 16 times, and other 3 times.
When did State House District 12, Alabama last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which State House District 12, Alabama voted Democratic was 1980.
How many people live in State House District 12, Alabama?
State House District 12, Alabama has a population of 50,206 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in State House District 12, Alabama?
Median household income in State House District 12, Alabama is $62,656 — below the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of State House District 12, Alabama?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in State House District 12, Alabama from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 16 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.