Alabama Democratic primary, 2016

Alabama Democratic primary, 2016
Alabama
March 1, 2016 (2016-03-01)

 
Candidate Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders
Home state New York Vermont
Delegate count 44 9
Popular vote 309,928 76,399
Percentage 77.84% 19.19%

Election results by county.
  Hillary Clinton

The 2016 Alabama Democratic 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.

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%
Sample size: 300

February 25–28,
2016
Hillary Clinton
71%
Bernie Sanders
23%
Others / Undecided
6%
Public Policy Polling[2]

Margin of error: ± 4.4
Sample size: 500

February 14–16,
2016
Hillary Clinton
59%
Bernie Sanders
31%
News-5/Strategy Research[3]

Margin of error: ± 2 percent
Sample size: 3,500

August 11, 2015 Hillary Clinton
78%
Bernie Sanders 10%

Results

Primary date: March 1, 2016
National delegates: 60

 Democratic Party's presidential nominating process in Alabama, 2016
– Summary of results –
Candidate Popular Vote
(March 1 Primary)
Estimated delegates
Count Percentage Pledged Unpledged Total
Hillary Clinton 309,928 77.84% 44 6 50
Bernie Sanders 76,399 19.19% 9 0 9
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) 1,485 0.37%
Rocky De La Fuente 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 Votes Sanders Votes
Autauga 80.0% 2,387 18.2% 544
Baldwin 64.7% 5,290 32.9% 2,694
Barbour 90.6% 2,567 7.8% 222
Bibb 75.5% 942 19.7% 246
Blount 55.1% 564 38.6% 395
Bullock 91.3% 2,451 6.6% 178
Butler 92.1% 2,196 6.5% 156
Calhoun 76.5% 5,011 21.8% 1,425
Chambers 88.6% 2,899 9.5% 312
Cherokee 66.1% 712 24.9% 268
Chilton 73.1% 860 24.6% 289
Choctaw 80.2% 1,772 12.4% 273
Clarke 93.0% 3,148 6.3% 213
Clay 81.8% 807 13.7% 135
Cleburne 73.2% 221 23.8% 72
Coffee 77.2% 1,493 20.1% 389
Colbert 65.0% 3,879 22.5% 1,342
Conecuh 71.4% 2,031 19.1% 544
Coosa 87.7% 1,012 10.8% 125
Covington 77.3% 737 19.7% 188
Crenshaw 87.8% 908 10.3% 107
Cullman 60.8% 1,275 34.5% 723
Dale 77.0% 1,544 20.7% 415
Dallas 74.4% 8,577 15.4% 1,774
DeKalb 62.9% 1,297 32.3% 667
Elmore 80.1% 3,019 18.4% 694
Escambia 88.5% 2,027 9.9% 226
Etowah 74.6% 4,262 22.6% 1,289
Fayette 76.7% 660 17.2% 148
Franklin 48.4% 1,233 30.1% 767
Geneva 74.9% 544 21.6% 157
Greene 90.1% 2,714 7.1% 213
Hale 79.6% 2,426 14.0% 427
Henry 85.6% 1,170 11.9% 163
Houston 78.3% 3,044 20.1% 780
Jackson 70.0% 1,327 26.9% 510
Jefferson 81.6% 67,357 17.4% 14,319
Lamar 61.6% 442 24.1% 173
Lauderdale 65.2% 3,676 30.9% 1,745
Lawrence 77.7% 2,047 16.2% 428
Lee 73.6% 7,137 25.4% 2,464
Limestone 72.8% 3,199 25.5% 1,120
Lowndes 88.7% 3,782 7.7% 330
Macon 89.2% 4,293 10.0% 483
Madison 68.6% 19,995 30.1% 8,786
Marengo 65.8% 3,590 20.0% 1,092
Marion 65.5% 567 29.6% 256
Marshall 62.1% 1,494 34.1% 821
Mobile 82.7% 28,927 16.2% 5,672
Monroe 90.9% 2,438 7.6% 205
Montgomery 86.2% 28,650 12.8% 4,266
Morgan 73.1% 3,897 25.2% 1,345
Perry 82.0% 2,575 12.4% 389
Pickens 76.2% 2,326 14.8% 453
Pike 83.7% 2,183 14.5% 379
Randolph 70.6% 1,236 18.7% 328
Russell 72.8% 4,381 16.4% 988
Shelby 62.8% 6,657 35.4% 3,755
St. Clair 69.3% 1,808 28.6% 745
Sumter 80.9% 2,987 11.3% 416
Talladega 86.5% 5,561 12.2% 782
Tallapoosa 88.0% 2,658 10.2% 308
Tuscaloosa 76.7% 12,136 21.8% 3,444
Walker 67.1% 1,722 27.5% 727
Washington 57.5% 1,511 21.4% 562
Wilcox 84.3% 3,337 10.4% 410
Winston 66.7% 303 30.4% 138
Total 77.84% 309,928 19.19% 76,399

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 Black Belt or 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

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