- Lead
- 10,268
- Total
- 17,668
- vs nation
- D+59.6
Alabama 54th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,432
- Total
- 21,037
- vs nation
- D+59.4
- Lead
- 12,446
- Total
- 19,714
- vs nation
- D+61.0
- Lead
- 12,581
- Total
- 19,718
- vs nation
- D+59.9
- Lead
- 13,105
- Total
- 20,559
- vs nation
- D+56.5
- Lead
- 9,479
- Total
- 17,326
- vs nation
- D+57.2
- Lead
- 9,674
- Total
- 16,998
- vs nation
- D+56.4
- Lead
- 8,858
- Total
- 16,077
- vs nation
- D+46.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+58.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 46,0292024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,290 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 20.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $49,0682024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 34.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 56.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+95.6 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 55, AL · twin score 99.0
presidential history
Party record book
Alabama 54th 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
97.4%
3,718 votes · D+95.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 96.7%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
40.0%
2,572 votes · D+19.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 33.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
17,022votes
80.9% of the vote · D+63.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 16,732 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
3,826votes
22.1% of the vote · D+54.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 3,822 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
+113.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+86.8 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +111.2 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+2.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+19.9 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1992 · −44.1 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%10,071 | 39.7%6,617 | 16,688 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+58.1, this district ranks among the most heavily Democratic in Alabama, likely reflecting a dense urban or majority-minority constituency that consistently delivers lopsided margins at every level of the ballot.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.6 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 58.1 points.
A population of 46,029, a 34% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,068 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 56.
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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Alabama 54th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/01054/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.