- Lead
- 10,985
- Total
- 23,065
- vs nation
- R+46.2
Alabama 81st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,702
- Total
- 23,341
- vs nation
- R+46.0
- Lead
- 8,558
- Total
- 20,957
- vs nation
- R+42.9
- Lead
- 6,490
- Total
- 20,347
- vs nation
- R+35.8
- Lead
- 7,465
- Total
- 20,807
- vs nation
- R+43.1
- Lead
- 7,345
- Total
- 19,201
- vs nation
- R+35.8
- Lead
- 3,918
- Total
- 17,296
- vs nation
- R+23.2
- Lead
- 1,750
- Total
- 15,742
- vs nation
- R+19.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+47.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 46,3262024 5-year
- Population density
- 60 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 775 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,7872024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 69.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 23.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+99.1 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+59.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 100, MS · twin score 97.2
presidential history
Party record book
Alabama 81st 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
John W. Davis1924
99.3%
1,741 votes · D+99.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 96.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
78.7%
8,869 votes · R+59.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · 76.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Hubert Humphrey1968
9,200votes
76.2% of the vote · D+66.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 7,815 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
16,911votes
73.3% of the vote · R+47.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 16,414 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
John W. Davis1924
+124.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+99.1 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +104.1 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+75.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+52.7 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +46.2 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.
In 2024 it voted Republican by R+47.6, against R+35.9 in 2008. Evangelical Protestant adherents were the largest religious group at 42.8% in the 2020 US Religion Census.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 99.1 points in 1924 and a Republican high of 59.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 47.6 points.
A population of 46,326, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,787 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 100 and State House District 94.
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 81st State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/01081/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.