Huntsville-Decatur (Florence) · 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. Roosevelt1940
82.3%
45,837 votes · D+64.9
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 80.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
72.5%
130,114 votes · R+46.9
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 69.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
156,958votes
31.0% of the vote · R+36.2
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 152,180 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
352,977votes
68.8% of the vote · R+39.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 340,615 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
+62.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+42.6 · U.S. R+19.7
Runner-up · Adlai Stevenson, 1952 · +59.1 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+69.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.4 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +43.1 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.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Huntsville-Decatur (Florence) · 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 Huntsville-Decatur (Florence), by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton10Obama1110,311 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
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Huntsville-Decatur (Florence)
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
20,817
2018
719,059
2020
788,607
2022
799,048
2024
847,655
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+14,466 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +105,345 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Huntsville-Decatur (Florence) in Huntsville-Decatur (Florence): net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+3,582
2012
+1,429
2013
+2,593
2014
+2,018
2015
+1,129
2016
+2,848
2017
+5,422
2018
+6,396
2019
+8,936
2021
+13,001
2022
+14,523
2023
+15,575
2024
+13,427
2025
+14,466
The Huntsville-Decatur market straddles the Tennessee Valley, where NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and a dense defense-contractor workforce have produced one of Alabama's most education-intensive and economically distinct voter bases.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 64.9 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 46.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 39.1 points.
A population of 1,121,532, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,589 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Chattanooga and Knoxville.
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How did Huntsville-Decatur (Florence), Alabama vote in 2024?
In 2024, Huntsville-Decatur (Florence), Alabama voted Republican by 39.1 points (R+39.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 513,240 votes cast, 152,180 went Democratic and 352,977 went Republican.
When did Huntsville-Decatur (Florence), Alabama last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Huntsville-Decatur (Florence), Alabama voted Democratic was 1980.
How many people live in Huntsville-Decatur (Florence), Alabama?
Huntsville-Decatur (Florence), Alabama has a population of 1,121,532 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Huntsville-Decatur (Florence), Alabama?
Median household income in Huntsville-Decatur (Florence), Alabama is $72,589 — below the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of Huntsville-Decatur (Florence), Alabama?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Huntsville-Decatur (Florence), Alabama from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 19 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.