Congressional District 6 Congressional District (AL) — Elections 1876–2024

Alabama 6th Congressional District, Alabama: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+20%. Republican peak: R+73 in 1964.

Key facts

2024 presidential margin: R+20MIT Election Lab
Political archetype: Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
Population: 727,1092024 5-year
Median household income: $75,7452024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic): 62.6%2024 5-year
Black: 27.5%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino: 6.7%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin: D+67 in 1936MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin: R+73 in 1964MIT Election Lab

2024 results by constituent county

16 counties · 4 D · 12 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	−20.3%	131,650	200,134	337,253
2020	R	−16.9%	143,695	203,239	352,380
2016	R	−22.8%	118,554	190,835	316,774
2012	R	−22.7%	118,850	189,607	311,286
2008	R	−21.3%	123,840	191,705	318,470
2004	R	−30.4%	99,082	186,415	287,542
2000	R	−20.7%	98,493	151,114	254,580
1996	R	−16.5%	91,643	129,788	231,838
1992	R	−16.7%	94,101	136,247	252,598
1988	R	−24.8%	78,141	130,136	209,436
1984	R	−26.6%	75,241	130,304	206,916
1980	R	−10.4%	84,117	104,816	198,126
1976	R	−3.4%	77,593	83,138	163,605
1972	R	−44.4%	37,933	101,730	143,778
1968	O	+4.4%	34,320	27,838	148,059
1964	R	−72.8%	0	74,436	102,245
1960	R	−10.6%	34,960	43,371	79,267
1956	R	−4.7%	30,603	33,803	67,836
1952	D	+10.8%	31,034	24,977	56,276
1948	O	−23.1%	0	7,155	31,002
1944	D	+53.2%	24,596	7,460	32,201
1940	D	+61.2%	30,604	7,307	38,082
1936	D	+67.1%	29,495	5,686	35,484
1932	D	+60.2%	24,891	5,943	31,460
1928	R	−8.7%	15,070	17,958	33,126
1924	D	+25.2%	14,103	7,969	24,373
1920	D	+27.1%	22,659	12,850	36,239
1916	D	+35.0%	10,796	5,079	16,311
1912	D	+51.1%	8,852	1,309	14,769
1908	D	+27.1%	7,757	4,263	12,887
1904	D	+41.1%	7,794	2,858	11,999
1900	D	+6.0%	5,923	5,225	11,711
1896	D	+26.4%	11,402	6,488	18,636
1892	D	+53.9%	11,070	648	19,332
1888	D	+34.2%	8,433	4,111	12,637
1884	D	+24.7%	5,384	3,235	8,683
1880	D	+47.6%	5,027	1,751	6,886
1876	D	+47.6%	5,518	1,957	7,475

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

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

English

13.3%

American

10.3%

Irish

7.4%

German

5.9%

Scottish

2.3%

Italian

2.1%

French

1.1%

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: 39.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

1.1%

2.1%

75–84

2.8%

4.7%

65–74

5.6%

6.0%

55–64

6.5%

6.1%

45–54

6.4%

6.3%

35–44

6.7%

6.5%

25–34

6.8%

4.3%

18–24

4.4%

8.7%

5–17

8.4%

2.9%

2.8%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$75,745

Congressional District 6 ranks near the middle of US counties.

Congressional District 6$75,745

Alabama$63,999

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

12.9%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1817.5%

Working age (18–64)11.4%

Seniors (65+)13.2%

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

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

92.2%

speak English only

Spanish5.3%

Asian & Pacific Islander1.0%

Other Indo-European1.0%

Other languages0.6%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Baptist

30.6%

Other Christian

14.5%

Methodist

7.4%

Catholic & Orthodox

4.8%

Mainline Protestant

3.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.1%

Non-Christian

1.4%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 34.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Alabama 6th 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 6th 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. 1956 marked the realignment in Alabama 6th Congressional District, by a five points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at seventy-three points in 1964. The 2024 margin was twenty points.

The political shift has tracked, in Alabama 6th Congressional District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 63% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $75,745, and a 13% poverty rate describe the demographic context.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Congressional District 6, Alabama vote in 2024?

In 2024, Congressional District 6, Alabama voted Republican by 20.3 points (R+20), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 337,253 votes cast, 131,650 went Democratic and 200,134 went Republican.

What is Congressional District 6, Alabama's political archetype?

Akashic classifies Congressional District 6, 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 18 times, Republican 18 times, and other 2 times.

When did Congressional District 6, Alabama last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Congressional District 6, Alabama voted Democratic was 1952.

How many people live in Congressional District 6, Alabama?

Congressional District 6, Alabama has a population of 727,109 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Congressional District 6, Alabama?

Median household income in Congressional District 6, Alabama is $75,745 — below the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.

What is the political history of Congressional District 6, Alabama?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Congressional District 6, Alabama from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 18 went Democratic and 18 went Republican. The district's archetype — "Old Confederacy" — captures the overall trajectory of that voting record.

Alabama 6th Congressional District voted Democratic for a century; it now votes Republican by 20 points.

Key facts

Demographics

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