- Lead
- 2,030
- Total
- 55,265
- vs nation
- D+5.1
Alabama 28th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,178
- Total
- 58,948
- vs nation
- D+7.7
- Lead
- 6,917
- Total
- 56,055
- vs nation
- D+10.2
- Lead
- 13,010
- Total
- 60,443
- vs nation
- D+17.7
- Lead
- 11,921
- Total
- 60,869
- vs nation
- D+12.3
- Lead
- 6,087
- Total
- 52,949
- vs nation
- D+14.0
- Lead
- 11,284
- Total
- 49,930
- vs nation
- D+22.1
- Lead
- 13,655
- Total
- 45,556
- vs nation
- D+21.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+3.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 147,0022024 5-year
- Population density
- 45 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3,251 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $44,9832024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 38.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 52.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+96.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+32.1 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 40, SC · twin score 97.5
presidential history
Party record book
Alabama 28th 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
97.9%
10,078 votes · D+96.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 97.5%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
66.0%
14,842 votes · R+32.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 58.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
36,586votes
60.5% of the vote · D+21.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 36,253 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
26,357votes
47.7% of the vote · D+3.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 25,606 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
+109.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+84.3 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +105.7 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+54.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+32.1 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · −2.8 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.
No racial group formed a majority here in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with Black residents at 47.5% and White alone at 44.9%. The district's Democratic presidential margin fell from D+19.6 in 2008 to D+3.7 in 2024.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 96.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 32.1 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.7 points.
A population of 147,002, a 39% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $44,983 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 40 and State Senate District 34.
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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