- Lead
- 25,073
- Total
- 60,649
- vs nation
- R+39.9
Alabama 35th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 24,762
- Total
- 61,153
- vs nation
- R+44.9
- Lead
- 25,841
- Total
- 54,806
- vs nation
- R+49.2
- Lead
- 24,527
- Total
- 55,471
- vs nation
- R+48.1
- Lead
- 25,248
- Total
- 57,539
- vs nation
- R+51.2
- Lead
- 26,070
- Total
- 51,299
- vs nation
- R+48.4
- Lead
- 21,334
- Total
- 45,017
- vs nation
- R+47.9
- Lead
- 17,364
- Total
- 41,385
- vs nation
- R+50.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+41.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 136,9442024 5-year
- Population density
- 415 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 330 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $67,5422024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+59.2 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+71.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 34, AL · twin score 97.7
presidential history
Party record book
Alabama 35th 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
78.2%
2,065 votes · D+59.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · 75.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
84.8%
26,162 votes · R+71.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · 83.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
17,750votes
29.0% of the vote · R+40.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 17,415 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
42,512votes
69.5% of the vote · R+40.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 42,488 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+73.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+54.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · +37.8 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+90.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+67.7 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +51.2 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+41.3 in 2024, compared with R+43.9 in 2008. Evangelical Protestant adherents were the largest religious group at 41.7% in the 2020 US Religion Census.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 59.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 71.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 41.3 points.
A population of 136,944, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,542 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 34 and State Senate District 35.
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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Alabama 35th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/01035/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.