- Lead
- 11,644
- Total
- 17,511
- vs nation
- D+68.0
Alabama 52nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,871
- Total
- 22,032
- vs nation
- D+67.6
- Lead
- 15,120
- Total
- 21,132
- vs nation
- D+69.5
- Lead
- 15,386
- Total
- 21,235
- vs nation
- D+68.6
- Lead
- 15,991
- Total
- 22,125
- vs nation
- D+65.0
- Lead
- 11,828
- Total
- 18,289
- vs nation
- D+67.1
- Lead
- 11,954
- Total
- 18,010
- vs nation
- D+65.9
- Lead
- 11,008
- Total
- 17,006
- vs nation
- D+56.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+66.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 46,4552024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,076 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 15.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $46,8532024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 24.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 65.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+96.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 55, AL · twin score 99.3
presidential history
Party record book
Alabama 52nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
97.9%
4,164 votes · D+96.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 97.6%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
32.3%
2,072 votes · D+35.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 27.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
18,967votes
85.7% of the vote · D+72.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 18,774 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
3,145votes
17.2% of the vote · D+64.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 3,140 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
James M. Cox1920
+115.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+89.4 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +112.4 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−12.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+35.3 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1948 · −50.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 60.3%10,165 | 39.7%6,679 | 16,844 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+66.5, this Birmingham-area district ranks among the most reliably Democratic constituencies in the state, reflecting the dense urban and majority-Black electorate concentrated in Jefferson County.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 96.5 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 66.5 points.
A population of 46,455, a 24% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $46,853 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 55 and State House District 54.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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