- Lead
- 9,408
- Total
- 19,028
- vs nation
- D+50.9
Alabama 60th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,722
- Total
- 21,801
- vs nation
- D+44.7
- Lead
- 9,484
- Total
- 21,160
- vs nation
- D+42.7
- Lead
- 9,492
- Total
- 21,571
- vs nation
- D+40.1
- Lead
- 9,704
- Total
- 22,499
- vs nation
- D+35.9
- Lead
- 6,135
- Total
- 19,710
- vs nation
- D+33.6
- Lead
- 6,783
- Total
- 18,672
- vs nation
- D+35.8
- Lead
- 6,038
- Total
- 17,682
- vs nation
- D+25.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+49.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 45,8612024 5-year
- Population density
- 505 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 90.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,1002024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 27.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 65.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+93.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+6.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 59, AL · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
Alabama 60th 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
96.5%
3,455 votes · D+93.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 94.9%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
53.3%
4,251 votes · R+6.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 50.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
16,149votes
74.1% of the vote · D+49.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 16,075 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
6,773votes
34.4% of the vote · D+31.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 6,751 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+110.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+90.3 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +107.2 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+29.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+6.5 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · −21.3 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+49.4, this Jefferson County district ranks among the state's most reliably Democratic constituencies, likely anchored by dense urban precincts in the Birmingham metro.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 93.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 6.5 points in 1964. The 2024 margin was 49.4 points.
A population of 45,861, a 27% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,100 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 59 and State House District 4.
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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