Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach) · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
88.9%
40,584 votes · D+78.5
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 88.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
78.7%
197,460 votes · R+58.8
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 69.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
258,159votes
34.5% of the vote · R+29.4
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 238,608 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
496,176votes
66.8% of the vote · R+34.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 477,784 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Alton B. Parker1904
+91.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+72.2 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +76.7 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+70.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.5 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +35.6 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach) · 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 Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach), by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton6Obama5121,782 votes · 11 of 11 countiesprimary
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
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.
Where a cell reads All others, no named candidate led — the source’s residual bucket did. That bucket holds every name past the ones the contest itemises, including candidates who had withdrawn but still drew votes. It is a total, not a person, so it carries no candidate colour.
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
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2023R+29.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+34.7
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 4.9 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach)
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2017 (partial)
461,230
119,272
242,338
96,522
3,098
2019 (partial)
488,780
123,983
254,567
103,156
7,074
2021 (partial)
506,964
125,388
261,635
109,171
10,770
2023 (partial)
499,594
114,492
263,287
109,140
12,675
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+9,573 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +124,605 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach) in Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach): net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+3,293
2012
+8,284
2013
+6,541
2014
+3,562
2015
+4,836
2016
+6,733
2017
+7,667
2018
+12,157
2019
+12,959
2021
+13,596
2022
+12,428
2023
+13,442
2024
+9,534
2025
+9,573
Spanning the Alabama-Florida panhandle, this media market clusters around Pensacola NAS, Eglin AFB, and Hurlburt Field, giving active-duty and veteran households an outsized share of the vote relative to comparable coastal metros.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 78.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 58.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 5.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 34.7 points.
A population of 1,519,166, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,815 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Dothan and Tyler-Longview (Lufkin & Nacogdoches).
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How did Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach), Alabama vote in 2024?
In 2024, Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach), Alabama voted Republican by 34.7 points (R+34.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 743,100 votes cast, 238,608 went Democratic and 496,176 went Republican.
When did Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach), Alabama last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach), Alabama voted Democratic was 1960.
How many people live in Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach), Alabama?
Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach), Alabama has a population of 1,519,166 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach), Alabama?
Median household income in Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach), Alabama is $70,815 — below the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach), Alabama?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach), Alabama from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
