Tuscaloosa, AL · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Tuscaloosa, AL, by party and cycle.
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Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Tuscaloosa, AL
Year
Total registered
2018
172,424
2020
184,205
2022
180,565
2024
187,366
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−907 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +7,215 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Tuscaloosa, AL in Tuscaloosa, AL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+9
2012
+762
2013
+982
2014
+1,412
2015
+1,010
2016
−197
2017
−201
2018
−547
2019
+24
2021
+3,819
2022
+667
2023
+157
2024
+225
2025
−907
Tuscaloosa's metropolitan politics are pulled in competing directions by a large student and university-employee population on one side and a deeply conservative surrounding rural county on the other, producing margins that consistently outperform statewide Republican baselines by a measurable gap.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 90.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 71.3 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 6.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 15.8 points.
A population of 278,526, a 56% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,466 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Valdosta, GA and Jackson, MS.
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In 2024, Tuscaloosa, AL, Alabama voted Republican by 15.8 points (R+15.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 105,512 votes cast, 43,788 went Democratic and 60,443 went Republican.
When did Tuscaloosa, AL, Alabama last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Tuscaloosa, AL, Alabama voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Tuscaloosa, AL, Alabama?
Tuscaloosa, AL, Alabama has a population of 278,526 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Tuscaloosa, AL, Alabama?
Median household income in Tuscaloosa, AL, Alabama is $62,466 — below the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of Tuscaloosa, AL, Alabama?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Tuscaloosa, AL, Alabama from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 11 went Republican.
