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1876–2024
State House District 104·Alabama

Alabama 104th State House District voted Democratic for a century; it now votes Republican by 16 points.

18762024·38 elections
AL
Latest
R+16
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
9,854
2024 ACS

Alabama 104th State House District, Alabama: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+16%. Democratic peak: D+82 in 1936.

Key facts

2024 presidential margin
R+16MIT Election Lab
Political archetype
Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
Population
9,8542024 5-year
Median household income
$58,8802024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic)
55.6%2024 5-year
Black
35.9%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino
3.5%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin
D+82 in 1936MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin
R+71 in 1964MIT Election Lab
1 counties · 0 D · 1 R
R+60
D+60
One cell per constituent county. Ordered by 2024 D-vs-R margin (bluest first). Hover for county-level numbers.
Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
R
−16.4%
1,7212,4064,183
R
−11.9%
1,8982,4184,374
R
−13.5%
1,7242,2724,074
R
−9.2%
1,8812,2664,176
R
−8.7%
1,9632,3424,333
R
−18.1%
1,5222,1983,744
R
−14.0%
1,4001,8673,337
R
−9.2%
1,3081,5953,107
R
−12.5%
1,3131,7423,434
R
−22.5%
1,0871,7242,832
R
−26.5%
1,1291,9573,128
R
−18.2%
1,1031,6122,794
R
−3.4%
1,2001,2862,529
R
−49.0%
4941,4962,045
O
+8.8%
4452512,196
R
−70.7%
01,1821,671
D
+7.4%
6845881,303
R
−8.8%
410493944
D
+1.2%
346338686
O
−19.4%
064330
D
+52.9%
22568297
D
+71.1%
27445322
D
+82.0%
26726294
D
+69.6%
23141273
D
+8.0%
142121263
D
+36.8%
9943152
D
+38.6%
14764215
D
+54.8%
712093
D
+76.7%
72390
D
+61.0%
581177
D
+79.5%
78888
D
+12.4%
7054129
D
+15.9%
9466176
D
+60.9%
1129169
D
+9.6%
7461135
O
+0.0%
6767134
D
+7.5%
9077173
D
+10.9%
127102229

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
English
9.4%
American
8.2%
Irish
7.5%
German
6.2%
French
2.5%
Scottish
1.7%
Italian
1.5%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
95.2%
speak English only
Spanish2.1%
Asian & Pacific Islander1.5%
Other Indo-European0.7%
Other languages0.4%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
29.4%
Other Christian
16.6%
Catholic & Orthodox
10.8%
Pentecostal & Holiness
7.0%
Methodist
5.7%
Mainline Protestant
2.1%
Non-Christian
1.5%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 26.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Alabama 104th State House District sits in the Black Belt and Gulf South. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the lingering memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in Alabama 104th State House District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.

The shift began with civil rights. 1964 marked the realignment in Alabama 104th State House District, by a seventy-one points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-one points in 1964. The 2024 margin was sixteen points.

The political shift has tracked, in Alabama 104th State House District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 56% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $58,880, and a 16% poverty rate describe the demographic context.

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Frequently asked questions

How did State House District 104, Alabama vote in 2024?
In 2024, State House District 104, Alabama voted Republican by 16.4 points (R+16), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 4,183 votes cast, 1,721 went Democratic and 2,406 went Republican.
What is State House District 104, Alabama's political archetype?
Akashic classifies State House District 104, Alabama as a "Old Confederacy" district based on its long-arc presidential voting pattern. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the district has voted Democratic 19 times, Republican 16 times, and other 3 times.
When did State House District 104, Alabama last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which State House District 104, Alabama voted Democratic was 1960.
How many people live in State House District 104, Alabama?
State House District 104, Alabama has a population of 9,854 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in State House District 104, Alabama?
Median household income in State House District 104, Alabama is $58,880 — below the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of State House District 104, Alabama?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in State House District 104, Alabama from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 19 went Democratic and 16 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.