 | |
| Number of elections | 51 |
|---|---|
| Voted Democratic | 29 |
| Voted Republican | 16 |
| Voted Democratic-Republican | 1 |
| Voted other | 2[a] |
| Voted for winning candidate | 27 |
| Voted for losing candidate | 24 |
Following is a table ofUnited States presidential elections in Alabama, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1819,Alabama has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864, during theAmerican Civil War, when the state had seceded to join theConfederacy.
Asocially conservativeDeep South state, Alabama was dominated by the Democratic Party for most of its history, voting almost exclusively Democratic from the founding of the party in the 1820s until theCivil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Since the 1980s, the state has become heavily Republican, like most of the south.
Notably, Alabama has also almost always voted for the same presidential candidate as neighboringMississippi. In more than two hundred years of presidential elections, they have supported the same candidate in all but one; the election of1840, whenMississippi voted forWilliam Henry Harrison andAlabama forMartin Van Buren (in1868, only Alabama participated, as Mississippi had not yet been readmitted to the Union).
Winners of the state are inbold. The shading refers to thestate winner, and not the national winner.
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The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent ofslavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about theAmerican Civil War.
| Year | Winner (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln | no ballots | — | Stephen A. Douglas | 13,618 | 15.1 | John C. Breckinridge | 48,669 | 54.0 | John Bell | 27,835 | 30.9 | 9 |
| Year | Winner (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Other national candidates[b] | Votes | Percent | Electoral votes | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1856 | James Buchanan | 46,739 | 62.08 | John C. Frémont | no ballots | — | Millard Fillmore | 28,552 | 37.92 | 9 | Frémont did not appear on the ballot |
| 1852 | Franklin Pierce | 26,881 | 60.89 | Winfield Scott | 15,061 | 34.12 | John P. Hale | — | — | 9 | |
| 1848 | Zachary Taylor | 30,482 | 49.43 | Lewis Cass | 31,173 | 50.56 | Martin Van Buren | — | — | 9 | |
| 1844 | James K. Polk | 37,401 | 58.99 | Henry Clay | 26,002 | 41.01 | — | 9 | |||
| 1840 | William Henry Harrison | 28,518 | 45.62 | Martin Van Buren | 33,996 | 54.38 | — | 7 | |||
| 1836 | Martin Van Buren | 20,638 | 55.34 | Hugh Lawson White | 16,658 | 44.66 | various[e] | 7 | |||
| 1832 | Andrew Jackson | 14,286 | 99.97 | Henry Clay | 5 | 0.03 | William Wirt | — | — | 7 | |
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson | 16,736 | 89.89 | John Quincy Adams | 1,878 | 10.09 | — | 5 |
The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailingDemocratic-Republican Party, resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the party, and competing for influence in different parts of the country. The election was the only one in history to be decided by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote. It was also the only presidential election in which the candidate who received a plurality of electoral votes (Andrew Jackson) did not become president, a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams acorrupt bargain.
| Year | Winner (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1824 | Andrew Jackson | 9,429 | 69.32 | John Quincy Adams | 2,422 | 17.80 | Henry Clay | 96 | 0.71 | William H. Crawford | 1,656 | 12.17 | 5 |
In the election of 1820, incumbent PresidentJames Monroe ran effectively unopposed, winning all electoral votes (includingAlabama's three electoral votes) except one vote in New Hampshire. The popular vote was primarily directed to filling the office of vice president. Alabama had its electors chosen not by the people, but by theState House andSenate. George W. Philips, Henry Minor and John Scott were selected by the legislature and all three men voted for James Monroe.
| 1820 United States presidential election in Alabama[9] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic-Republican | George W. Philips | 63 | 29.72% | 1 | |
| Democratic-Republican | Henry Minor | 62 | 29.25% | 1 | |
| Democratic-Republican | John Scott | 56 | 26.42% | 1 | |
| Democratic-Republican | James S. Walker | 31 | 14.62% | 0 | |
| Totals | 212 | 100.00% | 3 | ||
