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Selma, AL·Alabama

Selma, AL has voted Democratic in thirteen straight presidential elections — D+32.5 in 2024.

Dallas County anchor where Black voter registration drives reshaped Southern politics

2008 — 2024·5 elections
AL
2024 presidential election
Selma, AL
HarrisD+32.5
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2024 presidential margin by county for Selma, AL, ALA map of the single county of Selma, AL, AL, 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.Dallas County, AL · D+32.5
How it voted
Share of the 2024 vote
Kamala Harris ✓Democratic65.8%10,236
Donald TrumpRepublican33.4%5,190
OtherAll other candidates0.8%121
D+60
R+60
A single county, filled by its 2024 D-vs-R margin. Hover it for the full 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: +32.5% in 2024.flipped D · 1976+32.5%DR18762024
Presidential margin over time
YearMargin (D minus R)
1876−41.9%
1880+23.6%
1884+19.8%
1888+43.4%
1892+67.8%
1896+76.5%
1900+91.0%
1904+94.3%
1908+95.1%
1912+95.6%
1916+96.4%
1920+94.4%
1924+89.4%
1928+46.0%
1932+93.6%
1936+96.9%
1940+90.3%
1944+89.8%
1948−4.6%
1952−10.1%
1956−3.8%
1960−15.2%
1964−89.1%
1968+31.7%
1972−22.5%
1976+10.5%
1980+11.7%
1984+6.6%
1988+11.7%
1992+18.7%
1996+22.1%
2000+19.5%
2004+20.7%
2008+34.5%
2012+39.7%
2016+37.6%
2020+37.5%
2024+32.5%
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
YearWonDemocraticRepublicanOtherMarginTotal
D
65.8%Harris10,236
33.4%Trump5,190
0.8%
+32.5%
15,547
D
68.5%Biden12,230
30.9%Trump5,524
0.6%incl. Jorgensen
+37.5%
17,864
D
68.6%Clinton12,836
30.9%Trump5,789
0.5%incl. Johnson
+37.6%
18,721
D
69.7%Obama14,612
30.0%Romney6,288
0.3%
+39.7%
20,953
D
67.1%Obama13,986
32.6%McCain6,798
0.3%
+34.5%
20,852
D
60.2%Kerry11,175
39.5%Bush7,335
0.3%
+20.7%
18,573
D
59.4%Gore10,967
39.9%Bush7,360
0.7%incl. Nader
+19.5%
18,464
D
59.5%Clinton10,507
37.5%Dole6,612
3.0%incl. Perot
+22.1%
17,654
D
56.4%Clinton11,053
37.7%Bush7,394
5.9%incl. Perot
+18.7%
19,604
D
55.4%Dukakis9,660
43.8%Bush7,630
0.8%
+11.7%
17,423
D
52.9%Mondale10,955
46.3%Reagan9,585
0.9%
+6.6%
20,718
D
53.8%Carter9,770
42.1%Reagan7,647
4.0%incl. Anderson
+11.7%
18,147
D
54.2%Carter8,866
43.7%Ford7,144
2.1%
+10.5%
16,361
R
38.0%McGovern5,427
60.5%Nixon8,644
1.5%
−22.5%
14,280
O
39.2%Humphrey6,516
7.5%Nixon1,246
53.3%incl. Wallace
+31.7%
16,636
R
0.0%Johnson0
89.1%Goldwater5,888
10.9%
−89.1%
6,607
R
41.7%Kennedy2,103
56.9%Nixon2,872
1.4%
−15.2%
5,044
R
39.6%Stevenson2,121
43.4%Eisenhower2,324
17.0%
−3.8%
5,358
R
44.9%Stevenson2,082
55.1%Eisenhower2,550
0.0%
−10.1%
4,632
O
0.0%Truman0
4.6%Dewey132
95.4%incl. Thurmond
−4.6%
2,870
D
94.7%Roosevelt2,883
4.9%Dewey149
0.4%
+89.8%
3,043
D
95.1%Roosevelt3,106
4.8%Willkie157
0.1%
+90.3%
3,266
D
98.4%Roosevelt3,205
1.5%Landon49
0.1%
+96.9%
3,258
D
96.6%Roosevelt3,027
3.0%Hoover93
0.4%
+93.6%
3,133
D
73.0%Smith1,905
27.0%Hoover705
0.0%
+46.0%
2,611
D
91.8%Davis1,948
2.4%Coolidge50
5.9%incl. La Follette
+89.4%
2,123
D
97.2%Cox2,702
2.8%Harding78
0.0%
+94.4%
2,780
D
97.9%Wilson1,565
1.4%Hughes23
0.7%
+96.4%
1,599
D
96.7%Wilson1,461
1.1%Taft16
2.3%incl. Roosevelt
+95.6%
1,511
D
97.1%Bryan1,420
1.9%Taft28
1.0%
+95.1%
1,463
D
96.7%Parker1,472
2.4%Roosevelt36
1.0%
+94.3%
1,523
D
94.3%Bryan4,714
3.2%McKinley161
2.5%
+91.0%
5,001
D
87.6%Bryan4,091
11.1%McKinley519
1.3%
+76.5%
4,672
D
78.8%Cleveland7,339
11.0%Harrison1,028
10.2%incl. Weaver
+67.8%
9,314
D
71.7%Cleveland5,302
28.3%Harrison2,090
0.1%
+43.4%
7,396
D
59.9%Cleveland3,026
40.0%Blaine2,023
0.1%
+19.8%
5,054
D
61.8%Hancock1,794
38.2%Garfield1,108
0.0%
+23.6%
2,902
R
29.0%Tilden1,609
71.0%Hayes3,930
0.0%
−41.9%
5,539

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.
IndicatorSelma, ALMetro areaAlabamaStateUnited StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White27.0%64.5%61.0%
Black70.0%25.8%12.2%
Asian0.6%1.5%6.0%
Two or more races2.2%5.3%12.6%
Other race0.2%2.9%8.2%
Hispanic or Latino1.0%5.6%19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income$35,627$63,999$84,427
Poverty rate31.0%15.6%12.5%
Median age41.239.439.1
Age 18–248.1%9.4%9.2%
Age 65 and older20.5%17.7%17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)17.5%28.5%35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home2.0%6.1%22.3%
Ancestry
Largest ancestryEnglish 8.8%American 12.8%German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestryAmerican 6.4%English 12.1%Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestryIrish 2.5%Irish 8.0%English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic1.2%5.0%18.6%
Evangelical Protestant36.1%42.2%16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed44.8%36.6%51.5%
Black Protestant11.7%7.3%2.2%

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
African American identity is recorded by the ACS race question; the ancestry item enumerates specific African and Caribbean ancestries only.
Nigerian
1.2%
Jamaican
0.8%
African
0.3%
Reported ancestry · ACS B04006
English
8.8%
American
6.4%
Irish
2.5%
German
2.2%
French
0.6%
Scottish
0.6%
Scotch-Irish
0.6%
Italian
0.5%
The ACS does not publish subgroup detail for people reporting two or more races.
Specific origin · ACS B03001
Puerto Rican
0.5%
Mexican
0.3%
Dominican
0.1%
Below 1% of the population here; subgroup estimates are within the survey's margin of error.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and other single-race responses combined.
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: 41.2 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
0.4%
85+
1.1%
2.8%
75–84
3.8%
5.6%
65–74
6.8%
6.3%
55–64
7.8%
5.0%
45–54
6.3%
5.0%
35–44
6.3%
5.0%
25–34
6.2%
4.1%
18–24
4.0%
9.2%
5–17
8.5%
3.1%
<5
2.8%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$35,627
Selma, AL$35,627
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
31.0%
Nearly half of children live in poverty.
Children under 1848.0%
Working age (18–64)26.3%
Seniors (65+)21.5%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
98.0%
speak English only
Other languages0.9%
Spanish0.4%
Other Indo-European0.3%
German or other West Germanic0.1%
Vietnamese0.1%
Arabic0.1%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Evangelical Protestant
36.1%
Black Protestant
11.7%
Mainline Protestant
3.1%
Catholic
1.2%
Other Christian
1.0%
Latter-day Saints
1.0%
Muslim
1.0%
Other faiths
0.1%
Unaffiliated or not counted44.8%
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.

Selma's Dallas County core has long posted some of Alabama's highest Black voter-registration rates relative to population, a legacy of 1960s organizing that continues to shape turnout patterns and candidate strategy in statewide races.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 96.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 89.1 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 5.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 32.5 points.

A population of 36,858, a 27% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $35,627 describe the metro.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Selma, AL, Alabama vote in 2024?
In 2024, Selma, AL, Alabama voted Democratic by 32.5 points (D+32.5), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 15,547 votes cast, 10,236 went Democratic and 5,190 went Republican.
When did Selma, AL, Alabama last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Selma, AL, Alabama voted Republican was 1972.
How many people live in Selma, AL, Alabama?
Selma, AL, Alabama has a population of 36,858 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Selma, AL, Alabama?
Median household income in Selma, AL, Alabama is $35,627 — below the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of Selma, AL, Alabama?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Selma, AL, Alabama from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 30 went Democratic and 6 went Republican.