- Lead
- 37,958
- Total
- 63,939
- vs nation
- R+57.9
Alabama 9th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 35,646
- Total
- 63,221
- vs nation
- R+60.8
- Lead
- 33,436
- Total
- 54,534
- vs nation
- R+63.4
- Lead
- 28,383
- Total
- 51,801
- vs nation
- R+58.6
- Lead
- 26,718
- Total
- 52,137
- vs nation
- R+58.5
- Lead
- 21,460
- Total
- 47,868
- vs nation
- R+42.4
- Lead
- 11,506
- Total
- 41,963
- vs nation
- R+27.9
- Lead
- 6,830
- Total
- 35,503
- vs nation
- R+27.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+59.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 150,5522024 5-year
- Population density
- 167 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 903 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,1422024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 74.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+64.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+61.3 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 50, GA · twin score 97.0
presidential history
Party record book
Alabama 9th State Senate 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
82.0%
5,125 votes · D+64.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 81.5%
Republican
Donald Trump2016
79.4%
43,290 votes · R+61.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 79.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Jimmy Carter1976
17,495votes
64.7% of the vote · D+31.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · 15,974 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
50,588votes
79.1% of the vote · R+59.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 48,920 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
Adlai Stevenson1952
+58.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+47.6 · U.S. R+10.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · +54.7 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+63.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+61.3 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +60.8 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 an R+59.4 presidential margin in 2024, this north-central Alabama district ranks among the most one-sided in the state, reflecting a rural electorate where competitive general elections are effectively decided at the primary stage.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 64.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 61.3 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 59.4 points.
A population of 150,552, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,142 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 50 and State Senate District 5.
The state-senate 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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