2016 Alabama Democratic presidential primary

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2016 Alabama Democratic presidential primary
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Candidate Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders
Home state New York Vermont
Delegate count449
Popular vote309,92876,399
Percentage77.84%19.19%

2016 Alabama Democratic primary results by county.svg
County results
Clinton:     <50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%

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.

Contents

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 sourceDate1st2ndOther
Primary results [1] March 1, 2016Hillary Clinton
77.8%
Bernie Sanders
19.2%
Other
3.0%
Monmouth [2]

Margin of error: ± 5.8%
Sample size: 300

February 25–28,
2016
Hillary Clinton
71%
Bernie Sanders
23%
Others / Undecided
6%
Public Policy Polling [3]

Margin of error: ± 4.4
Sample size: 500

February 14–16,
2016
Hillary Clinton
59%
Bernie Sanders
31%
News-5/Strategy Research [4]

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

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

Results

Primary date: March 1, 2016
National delegates: 60

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– Summary of results –
CandidatePopular vote
(March 1 primary)
Estimated delegates
CountPercentagePledgedUnpledgedTotal
Hillary Clinton (campaign)309,92877.84%44650
Bernie Sanders (campaign)76,39919.19%909
Martin O'Malley (campaign) (withdrawn)1,4850.37%
Rocky De La Fuente (campaign)8110.20%
Uncommitted9,5342.39%011
Total398,157100%53760
Sources: [5] [6]

Results by county

County [7] Clinton %Sanders %OthersTotalsTurnoutMargin
Autauga 2,38780.0%54418.2%
Baldwin 5,29064.7%2,69432.9%
Barbour 2,56790.6%2227.8%
Bibb 94275.5%24619.7%
Blount 56455.1%39538.6%
Bullock 2,45191.3%1786.6%
Butler 2,19692.1%1566.5%
Calhoun 5,01176.5%1,42521.8%
Chambers 2,89988.6%3129.5%
Cherokee 71266.1%26824.9%
Chilton 86073.1%28924.6%
Choctaw 1,77280.2%27312.4%
Clarke 3,14893.0%2136.3%
Clay 80781.8%13513.7%
Cleburne 22173.2%7223.8%
Coffee 1,49377.2%38920.1%
Colbert 3,87965.0%1,34222.5%
Conecuh 2,03171.4%54419.1%
Coosa 1,01287.7%12510.8%
Covington 73777.3%18819.7%
Crenshaw 90887.8%10710.3%
Cullman 1,27560.8%72334.5%
Dale 1,54477.0%41520.7%
Dallas 8,57774.4%1,77415.4%
DeKalb 1,29762.9%66732.3%
Elmore 3,01980.1%69418.4%
Escambia 2,02788.5%2269.9%
Etowah 4,26274.6%1,28922.6%
Fayette 66076.7%14817.2%
Franklin 1,23348.4%76730.1%
Geneva 54474.9%15721.6%
Greene 2,71490.1%2137.1%
Hale 2,42679.6%42714.0%
Henry 1,17085.6%16311.9%
Houston 3,04478.3%78020.1%
Jackson 1,32770.0%51026.9%
Jefferson 67,35781.6%14,31917.4%
Lamar 44261.6%17324.1%
Lauderdale 3,67665.2%1,74530.9%
Lawrence 2,04777.7%42816.2%
Lee 7,13773.6%2,46425.4%
Limestone 3,19972.8%1,12025.5%
Lowndes 3,78288.7%3307.7%
Macon 4,29389.2%48310.0%
Madison 19,99568.6%8,78630.1%
Marengo 3,59065.8%1,09220.0%
Marion 56765.5%25629.6%
Marshall 1,49462.1%82134.1%
Mobile 28,92782.7%5,67216.2%
Monroe 2,43890.9%2057.6%
Montgomery 28,65086.2%4,26612.8%
Morgan 3,89773.1%1,34525.2%
Perry 2,57582.0%38912.4%
Pickens 2,32676.2%45314.8%
Pike 2,18383.7%37914.5%
Randolph 1,23670.6%32818.7%
Russell 4,38172.8%98816.4%
Shelby 6,65762.8%3,75535.4%
St. Clair 1,80869.3%74528.6%
Sumter 2,98780.9%41611.3%
Talladega 5,56186.5%78212.2%
Tallapoosa 2,65888.0%30810.2%
Tuscaloosa 12,13676.7%3,44421.8%
Walker 1,72267.1%72727.5%
Washington 1,51157.5%56221.4%
Wilcox 3,33784.3%41010.4%
Winston 30366.7%13830.4%
Total309,92877.8%76,39919.2%

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. [8] Clinton also won the white vote by a margin of 59–38. [9]

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. [10] 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. [11]

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. [12]

References

  1. Primary results
  2. "Alabama and Oklahoma: Trump Leads in Both, Clinton Leads in Al, Sanders in OK" (PDF).
  3. "Subject: Clinton leads in 10 of 12 Early March Primaries; Benefits From Overwhelming Black Support" (PDF).
  4. Albrecht, Peter (August 12, 2015). "Alabama Republicans Favor Trump By Wide Margin". wkrg.com.
  5. The Green Papers
  6. Alabama Democratic Party certified Election Results as received by Secretary of State of Alabama
  7. "2016 Election Center". CNN . Retrieved June 4, 2017.
  8. "2016 Election Center". CNN. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  9. "2016 Election Center". CNN. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  10. "Alabama Primary Election Results" . Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  11. Jeff Simon, Vanessa Yurkevich and Contessa Gayles. "Southern liberals have a fondness for Hillary Clinton". CNN. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  12. "Sanders campaign rewrites history of Super Tuesday losses" . Retrieved August 7, 2016.