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The following table displays, by color, the parties of elected officials in the U.S. state of Alabama from 1817 to the current year. As such, it may indicate the political party strength at any given time. The officers listed include: Governor; Lieutenant governor; Secretary of State; Attorney general; Comptroller of Public Accounts/State ...
The Democratic Party dominated politics in every Southern state. For nearly 100 years, local and state elections in Alabama were decided in the Democratic Party primary, with generally only token Republican challengers running in the General Election. Republicans ran a token candidate in every Alabama gubernatorial election except for 1930 and ...
In 1820, Alabama had 29 counties. By 1830 there were 36 and Native Americans still occupied large areas of land in northeast and far western Alabama. By 1840, 49 counties had been created; 52 by 1850; 65 by 1870; and the present 67 counties by 1903. [6] Houston County was the last county created in the state, on February 9, 1903. [3]
Alabama was no exception. However, by 1874 the Democratic party had re-established itself in Alabama, and a series of redistrictings and then punitive race laws ensured that no Republicans remained congressmen after 1877. With very little deviation, Southern Democrats remained steadfastly dominant in Alabama until 1965. Over the next 30 years ...
Several counties have voted Republican in every election except one since the party's first presidential race in 1856, though voted Democratic at some point before then (such as Union County, Pennsylvania). Most of these counties also supported Roosevelt in 1912.
Pages in category "Political parties in Alabama" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Libertarian Party of Alabama; Lowndes County Freedom ...
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A socially conservative Deep South state, Alabama was dominated by the Democratic Party for most of its history, voting almost exclusively Democratic from the founding of the party in the 1820s until the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Since the 1980s, the state has become heavily Republican, like most of the south.