2016 Alabama Democratic presidential primary
The 2016 Alabama Democratic presidential primary took place on March 1 in the U.S. state of Alabama as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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On the same day, dubbed "Super Tuesday," Democratic primaries were held in ten other states plus American Samoa, while the Republican Party held primaries in eleven states including their own Alabama primary.
Opinion polling
| Poll source | Date | 1st | 2nd | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary results | March 1, 2016 | Hillary Clinton 77.8% |
Bernie Sanders 19.2% |
Other 3.0% |
| Monmouth[1]
Margin of error: ± 5.8%
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February 25–28, 2016 |
Hillary Clinton 71% |
Bernie Sanders 23% |
Others / Undecided 6% |
| Public Policy Polling[2]
Margin of error: ± 4.4
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February 14–16, 2016 |
Hillary Clinton 59% |
Bernie Sanders 31% |
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| News-5/Strategy Research[3]
Margin of error: ± 2 percent
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August 11, 2015 | Hillary Clinton 78% |
Bernie Sanders 10% |
Results
Primary date: March 1, 2016
National delegates: 60
| Candidate | Popular vote (March 1 primary) |
Estimated delegates | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |
| Hillary Clinton (campaign) | 309,928 | 77.84% | 44 | 6 | 50 |
| Bernie Sanders (campaign) | 76,399 | 19.19% | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| Martin O'Malley (campaign) (withdrawn) | 1,485 | 0.37% | |||
| Rocky De La Fuente (campaign) | 811 | 0.20% | |||
| Uncommitted | 9,534 | 2.39% | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 398,157 | 100% | 53 | 7 | 60 |
| Sources: The Green Papers , Alabama Democratic Party certified Election Results as received by Secretary of State of Alabama | |||||
Results by county
| County[4] | Clinton | % | Sanders | % | Others | Totals | Turnout | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autauga | 2,387 | 80.0% | 544 | 18.2% | ||||
| Baldwin | 5,290 | 64.7% | 2,694 | 32.9% | ||||
| Barbour | 2,567 | 90.6% | 222 | 7.8% | ||||
| Bibb | 942 | 75.5% | 246 | 19.7% | ||||
| Blount | 564 | 55.1% | 395 | 38.6% | ||||
| Bullock | 2,451 | 91.3% | 178 | 6.6% | ||||
| Butler | 2,196 | 92.1% | 156 | 6.5% | ||||
| Calhoun | 5,011 | 76.5% | 1,425 | 21.8% | ||||
| Chambers | 2,899 | 88.6% | 312 | 9.5% | ||||
| Cherokee | 712 | 66.1% | 268 | 24.9% | ||||
| Chilton | 860 | 73.1% | 289 | 24.6% | ||||
| Choctaw | 1,772 | 80.2% | 273 | 12.4% | ||||
| Clarke | 3,148 | 93.0% | 213 | 6.3% | ||||
| Clay | 807 | 81.8% | 135 | 13.7% | ||||
| Cleburne | 221 | 73.2% | 72 | 23.8% | ||||
| Coffee | 1,493 | 77.2% | 389 | 20.1% | ||||
| Colbert | 3,879 | 65.0% | 1,342 | 22.5% | ||||
| Conecuh | 2,031 | 71.4% | 544 | 19.1% | ||||
| Coosa | 1,012 | 87.7% | 125 | 10.8% | ||||
| Covington | 737 | 77.3% | 188 | 19.7% | ||||
| Crenshaw | 908 | 87.8% | 107 | 10.3% | ||||
| Cullman | 1,275 | 60.8% | 723 | 34.5% | ||||
| Dale | 1,544 | 77.0% | 415 | 20.7% | ||||
| Dallas | 8,577 | 74.4% | 1,774 | 15.4% | ||||
| DeKalb | 1,297 | 62.9% | 667 | 32.3% | ||||
| Elmore | 3,019 | 80.1% | 694 | 18.4% | ||||
| Escambia | 2,027 | 88.5% | 226 | 9.9% | ||||
| Etowah | 4,262 | 74.6% | 1,289 | 22.6% | ||||
| Fayette | 660 | 76.7% | 148 | 17.2% | ||||
| Franklin | 1,233 | 48.4% | 767 | 30.1% | ||||
| Geneva | 544 | 74.9% | 157 | 21.6% | ||||
| Greene | 2,714 | 90.1% | 213 | 7.1% | ||||
| Hale | 2,426 | 79.6% | 427 | 14.0% | ||||
| Henry | 1,170 | 85.6% | 163 | 11.9% | ||||
| Houston | 3,044 | 78.3% | 780 | 20.1% | ||||
| Jackson | 1,327 | 70.0% | 510 | 26.9% | ||||
| Jefferson | 67,357 | 81.6% | 14,319 | 17.4% | ||||
| Lamar | 442 | 61.6% | 173 | 24.1% | ||||
| Lauderdale | 3,676 | 65.2% | 1,745 | 30.9% | ||||
| Lawrence | 2,047 | 77.7% | 428 | 16.2% | ||||
| Lee | 7,137 | 73.6% | 2,464 | 25.4% | ||||
| Limestone | 3,199 | 72.8% | 1,120 | 25.5% | ||||
| Lowndes | 3,782 | 88.7% | 330 | 7.7% | ||||
| Macon | 4,293 | 89.2% | 483 | 10.0% | ||||
| Madison | 19,995 | 68.6% | 8,786 | 30.1% | ||||
| Marengo | 3,590 | 65.8% | 1,092 | 20.0% | ||||
| Marion | 567 | 65.5% | 256 | 29.6% | ||||
| Marshall | 1,494 | 62.1% | 821 | 34.1% | ||||
| Mobile | 28,927 | 82.7% | 5,672 | 16.2% | ||||
| Monroe | 2,438 | 90.9% | 205 | 7.6% | ||||
| Montgomery | 28,650 | 86.2% | 4,266 | 12.8% | ||||
| Morgan | 3,897 | 73.1% | 1,345 | 25.2% | ||||
| Perry | 2,575 | 82.0% | 389 | 12.4% | ||||
| Pickens | 2,326 | 76.2% | 453 | 14.8% | ||||
| Pike | 2,183 | 83.7% | 379 | 14.5% | ||||
| Randolph | 1,236 | 70.6% | 328 | 18.7% | ||||
| Russell | 4,381 | 72.8% | 988 | 16.4% | ||||
| Shelby | 6,657 | 62.8% | 3,755 | 35.4% | ||||
| St. Clair | 1,808 | 69.3% | 745 | 28.6% | ||||
| Sumter | 2,987 | 80.9% | 416 | 11.3% | ||||
| Talladega | 5,561 | 86.5% | 782 | 12.2% | ||||
| Tallapoosa | 2,658 | 88.0% | 308 | 10.2% | ||||
| Tuscaloosa | 12,136 | 76.7% | 3,444 | 21.8% | ||||
| Walker | 1,722 | 67.1% | 727 | 27.5% | ||||
| Washington | 1,511 | 57.5% | 562 | 21.4% | ||||
| Wilcox | 3,337 | 84.3% | 410 | 10.4% | ||||
| Winston | 303 | 66.7% | 138 | 30.4% | ||||
| Total | 309,928 | 77.8% | 76,399 | 19.2% |
Analysis
After losing Alabama badly to Barack Obama in 2008, Clinton bounced back eight years later to a 58-point routing against runner-up Bernie Sanders. Her landslide win in Alabama came from African Americans, who formed 54% of the Democratic electorate and backed Clinton over Sanders by a margin of 91–6.[5] Clinton also won the white vote by a margin of 59–38.[6]
Clinton carried every county in the state, but showed particular strength in the region in Central Alabama known as the Cotton Belt where the share of African American voters is highest, including the city of Birmingham.[7] She also showed strength in and around the city of Mobile including Mobile Bay, along the Gulf Coast.
Clinton's Alabama victory was her second-highest in any state in the 2016 primary season.[8]
After his landslide defeat, the Sanders campaign reported that Hillary Clinton had notched wins in southern states including Alabama because Bernie Sanders did not compete with her, although this claim was widely debunked since Sanders had opened more campaign offices in the state before the primary.[9]
References
- "Alabama and Oklahoma: Trump Leads in Both, Clinton Leads in Al, Sanders in OK" (PDF).
- "Subject: Clinton leads in 10 of 12 Early March Primaries; Benefits From Overwhelming Black Support" (PDF).
- Albrecht, Peter (August 12, 2015). "Alabama Republicans Favor Trump By Wide Margin". wkrg.com.
- "2016 Election Center". CNN. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
- "2016 Election Center". CNN. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- "2016 Election Center". CNN. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- "Alabama Primary Election Results". Retrieved August 7, 2016.
- Jeff Simon, Vanessa Yurkevich and Contessa Gayles. "Southern liberals have a fondness for Hillary Clinton". CNN. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- "Sanders campaign rewrites history of Super Tuesday losses". Retrieved August 7, 2016.