Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...

participated, alongside the 49 other US states and

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, in the

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on November 5, 2024. Alabama chose electors to represent them in the

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via a popular vote. The state of Alabama has nine electoral votes in the Electoral College, following

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due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat. Alabama voted for the Republican nominee,

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(representing neighboring

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), by a comfortable margin in the election, with him winning the state by 30.47%. This was the largest Republican win in the state since

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, against the backdrop of

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's 49-state landslide re-election. Prior to the election, all major news organizations marked Alabama a safe

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Primary elections

Democratic primary

The Alabama Democratic primary was held on

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, March 5, 2024.

Republican primary

The Alabama Republican primary was held on

, March 5, 2024.

General election

On April 9, 2024, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen informed the

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that state law would not permit certification in time to include President Biden on the November ballot, as the

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(DNC) was to take place days after the state deadline of August 15. The following month, legislation was approved extending the deadline to August 23, one day after the conclusion of the DNC, allowing Biden to appear on the ballot. In early August, after Vice President

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replaced Biden in the race, Democrats held a virtual convention to nominate Harris, a process then formalized at the DNC convention. The day after the convention's conclusion, the

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filed paperwork to ensure Harris's inclusion on the Alabama ballot in November.

Voting laws

A study by the Center for Election Innovation & Research in July 2024 found that Alabama is one of only three remaining states (along with Mississippi and New Hampshire) to offer no early in-person voting option for the 2024 general election. The state also requires an eligible reason to vote by mail. In August 2024,

Secretary of State Wes Allen announced a process for purging 3,251 registered Alabama voters and referred them to the state attorney general’s office for criminal prosecution. In September 2024, the Department of Justice sued Alabama for violating the National Voter Registration Act. In October 2024, district judge

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ruled in favor of the Department of Justice, ordering the state to restore the voter registrations. Alabama secretary of state’s chief of staff Clay Helms testified that 2,000 of the purged voters were legally registered citizens.

Predictions

Polling

Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Joe Biden

Results

By county

By congressional district

Trump won 5 of 7 congressional districts.

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

* Marengo (largest city:

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)

Analysis

A Deep Southern state in the

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, Alabama is one of the most

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states in the nation and is considered to be deeply

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, not having voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since it supported

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of neighboring

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1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...

. Since then, the state has been competitive at this level in three elections:

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(when Carter narrowly lost Alabama while decisively losing re-election nationwide);

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, and

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(when Southerner

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lost the state by just under 7 points in both of his victories). In addition, Republicans hold supermajorities in both chambers of the

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, and the only Democrat to win a statewide election in Alabama since 2008 is former

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Doug Jones, who narrowly won a 2017 special election but was commandingly defeated in

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. Donald Trump was able to increase his support and gain ground in every county. He narrowly flipped majority-

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Marengo County into the Republican column for the first time in a presidential race since

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did so by a similar margin in

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. However, Kamala Harris was able to narrowly retain

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, the state's most populous city, for the Democrats by 3.4% while keeping her margin of defeat in the encompassing Madison County within the single digits (9%).

Notes

Partisan clients

References

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