- Lead
- 5,870
- Total
- 17,337
- vs nation
- R+32.4
Alabama 89th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,883
- Total
- 18,304
- vs nation
- R+31.1
- Lead
- 5,051
- Total
- 17,002
- vs nation
- R+31.8
- Lead
- 4,040
- Total
- 18,075
- vs nation
- R+26.2
- Lead
- 4,410
- Total
- 18,080
- vs nation
- R+31.7
- Lead
- 5,513
- Total
- 15,806
- vs nation
- R+32.4
- Lead
- 3,333
- Total
- 13,880
- vs nation
- R+24.5
- Lead
- 1,894
- Total
- 13,346
- vs nation
- R+22.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+33.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 46,0922024 5-year
- Population density
- 51 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 899 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $55,3692024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 58.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 29.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+94.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+70.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 169, GA · twin score 92.0
presidential history
Party record book
Alabama 89th 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
97.2%
3,538 votes · D+94.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 96.9%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
85.0%
5,498 votes · R+70.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 78.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Hubert Humphrey1968
7,396votes
70.2% of the vote · D+62.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 6,916 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,539votes
66.6% of the vote · R+33.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 11,476 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
+114.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+89.4 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +104.4 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+92.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+70.0 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +36.0 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.
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+33.8 in 2024, compared with R+24.4 in 2008. The district had about 53,000 residents, 60.1% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 70.0 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 33.9 points.
A population of 46,092, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $55,369 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 169 and State House District 156.
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 89th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/01089/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.