Montgomery-Selma · 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 Montgomery-Selma, by party and cycle.
○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.
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.
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voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Montgomery-Selma
Year
Total registered
2018
459,824
2020
480,892
2022
467,289
2024
480,569
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−847 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −42,985 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Montgomery-Selma in Montgomery-Selma: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−3,156
2012
−5,681
2013
−4,385
2014
−4,390
2015
−3,654
2016
−3,109
2017
−3,360
2018
−4,919
2019
−2,955
2021
−2,030
2022
−892
2023
−1,692
2024
−1,915
2025
−847
Spanning the historic Black Belt from Montgomery to Selma, this market's electorate is among the most heavily African-American in the Deep South, consistently producing some of Alabama's largest Democratic vote shares in a state that trends reliably Republican statewide.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 77.6 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 5.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.8 points.
A population of 631,990, a 48% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,984 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Jackson, MS and Augusta-Aiken.
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In 2024, Montgomery-Selma, Alabama voted Republican by 7.8 points (R+7.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 277,578 votes cast, 126,479 went Democratic and 148,080 went Republican.
When did Montgomery-Selma, Alabama last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Montgomery-Selma, Alabama voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Montgomery-Selma, Alabama?
Montgomery-Selma, Alabama has a population of 631,990 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Montgomery-Selma, Alabama?
Median household income in Montgomery-Selma, Alabama is $57,984 — below the national median of $80,734. The Alabama state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of Montgomery-Selma, Alabama?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Montgomery-Selma, Alabama from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 10 went Republican.
