Congressional District 4 Congressional District (AL) — Elections 1876–2024

Alabama 4th Congressional District, Alabama: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+62%. Republican peak: R+62 in 2024.

Key facts

2024 presidential margin: R+62MIT Election Lab
Political archetype: Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
Population: 787,5932024 5-year
Median household income: $58,9952024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic): 79.1%2024 5-year
Black: 9.9%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino: 7.8%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin: D+54 in 1892MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin: R+62 in 2024MIT Election Lab

2024 results by constituent county

23 counties · 1 D · 22 R

R+60

D+60

One cell per constituent county. Ordered by 2024 D-vs-R margin (bluest first). Hover for county-level numbers.

38 presidential elections

Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−62.4%	62,866	277,136	343,377
2020	R	−57.4%	72,266	272,281	348,718
2016	R	−57.5%	63,886	245,067	314,858
2012	R	−45.1%	80,542	215,747	299,881
2008	R	−42.2%	86,703	216,705	307,901
2004	R	−33.5%	98,441	198,566	299,246
2000	R	−16.3%	108,549	151,865	265,983
1996	R	−2.9%	107,476	114,579	243,419
1992	D	+1.5%	123,505	119,312	276,121
1988	R	−9.8%	99,586	121,487	223,535
1984	R	−15.1%	97,501	132,722	233,047
1980	D	+11.3%	122,009	96,629	224,544
1976	D	+33.7%	137,693	67,688	207,804
1972	R	−51.7%	39,916	127,731	169,972
1968	O	−7.9%	18,557	32,815	179,528
1964	R	−59.1%	0	74,272	125,705
1960	D	+20.7%	72,504	47,543	120,594
1956	D	+21.6%	68,003	43,679	112,769
1952	D	+34.3%	62,310	30,427	93,070
1948	O	−30.7%	0	15,956	51,977
1944	D	+40.2%	40,731	17,281	58,316
1940	D	+50.3%	52,008	17,110	69,429
1936	D	+48.8%	47,719	16,305	64,353
1932	D	+50.5%	40,192	13,052	53,757
1928	R	−4.6%	27,812	30,521	58,448
1924	D	+18.4%	24,972	17,010	43,371
1920	D	+5.4%	35,381	31,753	67,811
1916	D	+25.5%	18,774	11,020	30,459
1912	D	+37.5%	14,696	4,489	27,253
1908	D	+14.5%	13,445	9,921	24,258
1904	D	+23.1%	14,866	9,024	25,305
1900	D	+4.8%	15,509	14,035	30,830
1896	D	+21.9%	17,904	11,285	30,190
1892	D	+54.1%	19,094	815	33,783
1888	D	+27.8%	14,680	8,264	23,119
1884	D	+25.5%	11,585	6,808	18,699
1880	D	+33.1%	11,054	5,302	17,395
1876	D	+37.8%	12,793	5,775	18,568

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

17.1%

English

12.9%

Irish

9.0%

German

6.6%

Scottish

2.1%

Italian

1.6%

French

0.9%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 39.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

1.1%

2.5%

75–84

3.3%

5.1%

65–74

5.9%

6.4%

55–64

6.7%

6.1%

45–54

6.2%

5.8%

35–44

6.0%

6.1%

25–34

6.2%

4.8%

18–24

4.8%

8.5%

5–17

8.1%

3.1%

2.8%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$58,995

Congressional District 4 ranks near the middle of US counties.

Congressional District 4$58,995

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

17.1%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1823.9%

Working age (18–64)15.4%

Seniors (65+)12.6%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

93.3%

speak English only

Spanish5.7%

Other Indo-European0.5%

Asian & Pacific Islander0.3%

Other languages0.2%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Baptist

36.2%

Other Christian

13.3%

Methodist

4.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

4.2%

Catholic & Orthodox

4.0%

Mainline Protestant

1.4%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 36.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Alabama 4th Congressional District sits in the Black Belt and Gulf South. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the long memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in Alabama 4th Congressional District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.

The shift began with civil rights. 1996 marked the realignment in Alabama 4th Congressional District, by a three points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at sixty-two points in 2024. The 2024 margin was sixty-two points.

The political shift has tracked, in Alabama 4th Congressional District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 79% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $58,995, and a 17% poverty rate describe the demographic context.

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Congressional District 4, Alabama — The Long Memory. Akashic Intelligence — The Long Memory. https://tiers.akashic.app/cd/0104/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Congressional District 4, Alabama vote in 2024?

In 2024, Congressional District 4, Alabama voted Republican by 62.4 points (R+62), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 343,377 votes cast, 62,866 went Democratic and 277,136 went Republican.

What is Congressional District 4, Alabama's political archetype?

Akashic classifies Congressional District 4, Alabama as a "Old Confederacy" district based on its long-arc presidential voting pattern. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the district has voted Democratic 23 times, Republican 13 times, and other 2 times.

When did Congressional District 4, Alabama last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Congressional District 4, Alabama voted Democratic was 1992.

How many people live in Congressional District 4, Alabama?

Congressional District 4, Alabama has a population of 787,593 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Congressional District 4, Alabama?

Median household income in Congressional District 4, Alabama is $58,995 — below the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.

What is the political history of Congressional District 4, Alabama?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Congressional District 4, Alabama from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 23 went Democratic and 13 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.

Alabama 4th Congressional District voted Democratic for a century; it now votes Republican by 62 points.

Key facts

Demographics

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