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State Senate District 29·Alabama

Alabama 29th State Senate District voted Democratic for a century; it now votes Republican by 54 points.

18762024·38 elections
AL
Latest
R+54
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
141,820
2024 ACS

Alabama 29th State Senate District, Alabama: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+54%. Democratic peak: D+98 in 1888.

Key facts

2024 presidential margin
R+54MIT Election Lab
Political archetype
Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
Population
141,8202024 5-year
Median household income
$56,9892024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic)
68.7%2024 5-year
Black
22.7%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino
5.1%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin
D+98 in 1888MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin
R+85 in 1964MIT Election Lab
3 counties · 0 D · 3 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
−54.4%
13,15945,26659,041
R
−49.5%
15,01345,24461,026
R
−53.2%
12,66242,53456,171
R
−45.2%
15,02440,15355,596
R
−45.8%
14,98840,70156,087
R
−51.3%
11,95137,43749,664
R
−39.2%
13,01430,30844,083
R
−26.9%
12,80523,41139,408
R
−23.4%
13,46123,35942,375
R
−44.8%
10,23526,98837,435
R
−50.3%
9,32428,78238,686
R
−20.4%
13,59320,73935,113
D
+7.2%
16,27414,04730,736
R
−68.1%
3,76620,31724,287
O
+2.4%
2,0351,38527,027
R
−85.2%
015,59618,308
D
+13.5%
7,5105,71913,302
D
+25.5%
6,9674,00811,625
D
+32.6%
7,1043,59210,767
O
−13.6%
07535,548
D
+76.2%
5,7937656,599
D
+76.2%
7,0569408,024
D
+84.1%
6,7335757,325
D
+87.0%
6,8824717,367
D
+4.4%
3,9943,6607,657
D
+57.2%
3,1638114,110
D
+33.3%
3,8461,9035,828
D
+39.9%
3,2431,3664,702
D
+58.5%
2,3412113,643
D
+31.9%
2,0761,0123,339
D
+35.8%
2,2449513,612
D
+5.3%
1,1481,0222,377
D
+81.4%
2,1321652,416
D
+54.0%
1,39762,578
D
+98.3%
1,315111,326
D
+84.5%
89160984
D
+77.3%
9631231,086
D
+77.2%
878113991

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
English
13.1%
American
9.3%
Irish
9.0%
German
6.3%
Scottish
1.7%
Italian
1.5%
French
1.0%
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
Spanish3.3%
Asian & Pacific Islander0.8%
Other Indo-European0.5%
Other languages0.2%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
38.4%
Other Christian
17.7%
Methodist
9.3%
Pentecostal & Holiness
3.3%
Catholic & Orthodox
2.9%
Non-Christian
1.5%
Mainline Protestant
1.3%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 25.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Alabama 29th State Senate 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 29th State Senate 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. 1980 marked the realignment in Alabama 29th State Senate District, by a twenty points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at eighty-five points in 1964. The 2024 margin was fifty-four points.

The political shift has tracked, in Alabama 29th State Senate District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 69% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $56,989, and a 18% poverty rate describe the demographic context.

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Frequently asked questions

How did State Senate District 29, Alabama vote in 2024?
In 2024, State Senate District 29, Alabama voted Republican by 54.4 points (R+54), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 59,041 votes cast, 13,159 went Democratic and 45,266 went Republican.
What is State Senate District 29, Alabama's political archetype?
Akashic classifies State Senate District 29, 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 22 times, Republican 14 times, and other 2 times.
When did State Senate District 29, Alabama last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which State Senate District 29, Alabama voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in State Senate District 29, Alabama?
State Senate District 29, Alabama has a population of 141,820 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in State Senate District 29, Alabama?
Median household income in State Senate District 29, Alabama is $56,989 — below the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of State Senate District 29, Alabama?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in State Senate District 29, Alabama from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 14 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.