- Lead
- 5,448
- Total
- 14,275
- vs nation
- D+39.6
Alabama 70th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,965
- Total
- 16,149
- vs nation
- D+38.7
- Lead
- 5,160
- Total
- 15,104
- vs nation
- D+32.1
- Lead
- 5,448
- Total
- 14,925
- vs nation
- D+32.6
- Lead
- 5,732
- Total
- 15,111
- vs nation
- D+30.7
- Lead
- 3,924
- Total
- 12,751
- vs nation
- D+33.2
- Lead
- 4,245
- Total
- 11,337
- vs nation
- D+36.9
- Lead
- 4,409
- Total
- 10,762
- vs nation
- D+32.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+38.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 45,6412024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,790 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 25.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $53,9722024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 34.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 56.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+96.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 141, GA · twin score 95.9
presidential history
Party record book
Alabama 70th 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
98.4%
1,947 votes · D+96.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 98.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
43.6%
2,100 votes · D+10.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · 40.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
11,442votes
70.9% of the vote · D+43.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 10,359 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2016
4,851votes
32.1% of the vote · D+34.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 4,667 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
+117.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+91.4 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +116.0 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+3.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+18.8 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · −30.7 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.
District 70 recorded a 38.2-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most reliably left-leaning constituencies in a state that trends heavily Republican statewide. Its demographic composition likely reflects a majority-Black urban core.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 96.9 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 38.2 points.
A population of 45,641, a 35% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,972 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 141 and State House District 130.
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 70th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/01070/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.