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1876–2024
LaGrange, GA-AL·Alabama

LaGrange, GA-AL has voted Republican in eleven straight presidential elections — R+24.0 in 2024.

A Piedmont textile corridor where manufacturing heritage shapes modern politics

2008 — 2024·5 elections
AL
2024 presidential election
LaGrange, GA-AL
TrumpR+24.0
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2024 presidential margin by county for LaGrange, GA-AL, ALA map of the constituent counties of LaGrange, GA-AL, AL, each outlined and filled by its 2024 presidential margin from deep red (Republican) through neutral to deep blue (Democratic), seated within the faint outlines of the surrounding states.Chambers County, AL · R+23.2Troup County, GA · R+24.4
How it voted
Share of the 2024 vote
Donald Trump ✓Republican61.7%28,103
Kamala HarrisDemocratic37.7%17,162
OtherAll other candidates0.6%284
D+60
R+60
2 counties, each filled by 2024 D-vs-R margin. Hover any county for its result.
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over timeDemocratic-minus-Republican presidential margin from 1876 to 2024. Most recent: −24.0% in 2024.flipped R · 1984−24.0%DR18762024
Presidential margin over time
YearMargin (D minus R)
1876+36.8%
1880+36.5%
1884+25.6%
1888+14.1%
1892+56.8%
1896+38.3%
1900+58.5%
1904+82.0%
1908+76.4%
1912+90.9%
1916+80.0%
1920+67.5%
1924+79.9%
1928−2.7%
1932+84.0%
1936+91.5%
1940+89.4%
1944+85.0%
1948+45.3%
1952+64.2%
1956+50.7%
1960+39.8%
1964−21.0%
1968−0.3%
1972−60.4%
1976+16.5%
1980+16.2%
1984−24.2%
1988−27.8%
1992−4.8%
1996−7.3%
2000−17.7%
2004−25.2%
2008−15.1%
2012−13.3%
2016−20.3%
2020−19.7%
2024−24.0%
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
YearWonDemocraticRepublicanOtherMarginTotal
R
37.7%Harris17,162
61.7%Trump28,103
0.6%
−24.0%
45,549
R
39.6%Biden17,943
59.3%Trump26,896
1.1%incl. Jorgensen
−19.7%
45,333
R
38.8%Clinton15,497
59.1%Trump23,593
2.0%incl. Johnson
−20.3%
39,906
R
42.9%Obama17,418
56.1%Romney22,805
1.0%
−13.3%
40,646
R
42.1%Obama17,254
57.2%McCain23,458
0.7%
−15.1%
40,984
R
37.1%Kerry12,977
62.4%Bush21,805
0.5%
−25.2%
34,971
R
40.5%Gore11,995
58.2%Bush17,235
1.4%incl. Nader
−17.7%
29,638
R
42.5%Clinton11,455
49.8%Dole13,423
7.6%incl. Perot
−7.3%
26,928
R
41.0%Clinton12,350
45.8%Bush13,800
13.2%incl. Perot
−4.8%
30,130
R
35.7%Dukakis9,665
63.5%Bush17,178
0.7%
−27.8%
27,045
R
37.7%Mondale10,574
61.8%Reagan17,364
0.5%
−24.2%
28,075
D
56.7%Carter14,365
40.5%Reagan10,262
2.8%incl. Anderson
+16.2%
25,328
D
57.8%Carter13,863
41.3%Ford9,910
0.8%
+16.5%
23,969
R
19.3%McGovern4,132
79.7%Nixon17,066
1.0%
−60.4%
21,409
O
18.5%Humphrey4,254
18.8%Nixon4,321
62.7%incl. Wallace
−0.3%
23,003
R
32.6%Johnson6,032
53.6%Goldwater9,907
13.8%
−21.0%
18,496
D
69.7%Kennedy10,910
29.9%Nixon4,673
0.5%
+39.8%
15,654
D
74.9%Stevenson11,327
24.2%Eisenhower3,662
0.8%
+50.7%
15,113
D
82.0%Stevenson13,285
17.8%Eisenhower2,877
0.3%
+64.2%
16,207
D
56.2%Truman3,896
10.9%Dewey754
33.0%incl. Thurmond
+45.3%
6,936
D
92.5%Roosevelt6,691
7.4%Dewey536
0.1%
+85.0%
7,237
D
94.5%Roosevelt7,317
5.1%Willkie398
0.3%
+89.4%
7,739
D
95.7%Roosevelt6,354
4.2%Landon279
0.1%
+91.5%
6,640
D
91.9%Roosevelt4,923
7.9%Hoover423
0.2%
+84.0%
5,359
R
48.6%Smith2,556
51.4%Hoover2,699
0.0%
−2.7%
5,255
D
88.1%Davis3,344
8.2%Coolidge311
3.7%incl. La Follette
+79.9%
3,796
D
83.6%Cox3,445
16.1%Harding664
0.3%
+67.5%
4,123
D
86.2%Wilson2,906
6.1%Hughes206
7.7%
+80.0%
3,373
D
92.3%Wilson2,927
1.4%Taft44
6.3%incl. Roosevelt
+90.9%
3,170
D
80.8%Bryan1,739
4.4%Taft95
14.8%
+76.4%
2,152
D
85.5%Parker2,312
3.5%Roosevelt94
11.0%
+82.0%
2,704
D
77.3%Bryan3,674
18.8%McKinley895
3.9%
+58.5%
4,753
D
67.8%Bryan2,888
29.5%McKinley1,256
2.7%
+38.3%
4,259
D
63.9%Cleveland4,086
7.1%Harrison454
29.0%incl. Weaver
+56.8%
6,390
D
57.0%Cleveland2,115
43.0%Harrison1,593
0.0%
+14.1%
3,708
D
62.8%Cleveland1,805
37.2%Blaine1,069
0.0%
+25.6%
2,874
D
67.8%Hancock1,918
31.2%Garfield884
1.0%
+36.5%
2,830
D
68.4%Tilden2,282
31.6%Hayes1,053
0.1%
+36.8%
3,337

Demographics

Demographic profile

Demographic Profile

Key indicators compared across containing geographies

Demographic Profile. Key indicators compared across containing geographies. ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error. Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.
IndicatorLaGrange, GA-ALMetro areaUnited StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White55.2%61.0%
Black36.8%12.2%
Asian1.6%6.0%
Two or more races3.8%12.6%
Other race2.6%8.2%
Hispanic or Latino4.5%19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income$54,447$84,427
Poverty rate16.5%12.5%
Median age38.439.1
Age 18–248.3%9.2%
Age 65 and older17.2%17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)20.9%35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home5.4%22.3%
Spanish3.2%13.6%
Ancestry
Largest ancestryAmerican 11.8%German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestryEnglish 9.6%Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestryIrish 7.5%English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic2.8%18.6%
Evangelical Protestant37.5%16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed41.4%51.5%
Black Protestant8.4%2.2%
Mainline Protestant7.8%5.2%

ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error.

Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.

2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the origins and ancestries reported within it.
Reported ancestry · ACS B04006
American
11.8%
English
9.6%
Irish
7.5%
German
5.2%
Scottish
1.5%
Italian
1.0%
Scotch-Irish
0.9%
French
0.9%
Reported ancestry · ACS B04006
African American identity is recorded by the ACS race question; the ancestry item enumerates specific African and Caribbean ancestries only.
African
1.1%
Haitian
0.3%
Jamaican
0.2%
Trinidadian and Tobagonian
0.2%
Specific origin · ACS B03001
Mexican
2.2%
Guatemalan
0.6%
Honduran
0.4%
Puerto Rican
0.4%
Peruvian
0.2%
Salvadoran
0.2%
The ACS does not publish subgroup detail for people reporting two or more races.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and other single-race responses combined.
Detailed group · ACS B02015
Asian Indian
0.7%
Korean
0.5%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Race shares: B02001 · B03003. Subgroup detail: B03001 (Hispanic or Latino specific origin), B02015 (Asian groups), B02020 · B02016 (American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and Pacific Islander groups), B04006 (reported ancestry). Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so group shares can total more than 100%. All subgroup rows are shares of total population; ancestry is self-reported and multiple-response, so rows do not sum to the parent group's share.
2024 ACS
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 38.4 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
0.6%
85+
1.5%
2.1%
75–84
2.8%
4.7%
65–74
5.5%
6.4%
55–64
6.8%
5.8%
45–54
6.6%
5.6%
35–44
6.4%
6.4%
25–34
7.1%
4.2%
18–24
4.1%
8.7%
5–17
8.6%
3.2%
<5
2.8%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$54,447
LaGrange, GA-AL$54,447
Alabama$63,999
United States$80,734
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
16.5%
Children face moderate poverty.
Children under 1822.3%
Working age (18–64)14.4%
Seniors (65+)18.7%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
94.6%
speak English only
Spanish3.2%
Other Indo-European0.8%
Korean0.6%
Other languages0.3%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)0.2%
French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)0.1%
German or other West Germanic0.1%
Other Asian & Pacific Island0.1%
Vietnamese0.1%
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)0.1%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Evangelical Protestant
37.5%
Black Protestant
8.4%
Mainline Protestant
7.8%
Catholic
2.8%
Latter-day Saints
1.1%
Other Christian
0.7%
Muslim
0.3%
Unaffiliated or not counted41.4%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. The unaffiliated-or-not-counted share is everyone not claimed as an adherent by any reporting body — uncounted congregations as well as the religiously unaffiliated.

Straddling the Georgia-Alabama state line along the Chattahoochee River, the LaGrange area carries a legacy of mill-town labor economics that continues to influence its voter composition and competitive margins in state-level races.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 91.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 60.4 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.0 points.

A population of 104,522, a 55% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,447 describe the metro.

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Frequently asked questions

How did LaGrange, GA-AL, Alabama vote in 2024?
In 2024, LaGrange, GA-AL, Alabama voted Republican by 24.0 points (R+24.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 45,549 votes cast, 17,162 went Democratic and 28,103 went Republican.
What is LaGrange, GA-AL, Alabama's political typology?
Akashic places LaGrange, GA-AL, Alabama in the "Black Belt" typology. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the metro has voted Democratic 23 times, Republican 14 times, and other 1 times.
When did LaGrange, GA-AL, Alabama last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which LaGrange, GA-AL, Alabama voted Democratic was 1980.
How many people live in LaGrange, GA-AL, Alabama?
LaGrange, GA-AL, Alabama has a population of 104,522 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in LaGrange, GA-AL, Alabama?
Median household income in LaGrange, GA-AL, Alabama is $54,447 — below the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of LaGrange, GA-AL, Alabama?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in LaGrange, GA-AL, Alabama from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 23 went Democratic and 14 went Republican. The metro's typology — "Black Belt" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.