Trump did even better in deep-red Alabama this time around
For the third time in a row, Donald Trump easily carried Alabama and claimed its nine electoral votes. And this time, he grew his margin of victory.
Even more Alabama voters supported Trump compared to the previous two elections. He won by 65%, or 1,454,170 votes, according to unofficial results released by the Alabama Secretary of State’s Office.
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That’s up from his share of about 62% of Alabama ballots in 2020. He got roughly 10,800 more votes than he did four years ago. Meanwhile, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris earned about 767,200 votes — and that was 82,000 fewer than Joe Biden got in Alabama in 2020.
This time Trump earned roughly the same share of the vote as he did in 2016, when he was running against Hillary Clinton. But Trump won about 133,700 more votes this time.
While Harris did not keep pace with Biden’s 2020 performance, she did earn about 37,000 more votes in Alabama than Clinton did in 2016.
Final results for St. Clair and Lee counties trickled in past midnight into early Wednesday morning, but the unofficial results showed that the same counties as usual went red or blue.
Trump saw his largest margin in rural Winston County in north Alabama with 91.4% of the votes. Meanwhile, rural Greene County in the western part of Alabama’s Black Belt held the largest share of Harris voters at 77.6%.
While no counties flipped during this election, several of them had very tight results, per unofficial vote counts published on the Alabama Secretary of State website. The county with the tightest race was Russell County, home to Phenix City, in east Alabama, where Harris won 50.3% of the vote, only up 332 votes from Trump.
In Hale County, Harris won by 53%, beating Trump by only 498 votes. And, just south, in neighboring Marengo County, the opposite occurred: Trump won by 51.6%, beating Harris by only 369 votes.
In Madison County, home to fast-growing Huntsville, Trump won by 53.4%, beating out Harris by 17,640 votes. Its share of Trump voters ticked back up from 2020, nearing 2016 levels.
Jefferson County, the state’s most populous and home to Birmingham, typically leans Democratic. There Harris won by 54.3%, bringing in 31,139 more votes than Trump did. This year, Jefferson County’s share of Trump voters slightly increased while its share of Democratic presidential candidate voters slightly decreased.