See main article: 2024 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 2024 United States presidential election in Alabama |
| Country: | Alabama |
| Type: | Presidential |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2020 United States presidential election in Alabama |
| Previous Year: | 2020 |
| Election Date: | November 5, 2024 |
| Next Election: | 2028 United States presidential election in Alabama |
| Next Year: | 2028 |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Joe Biden |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Image1: | Donald Trump 2023 (double cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Donald Trump |
| Home State1: | Florida |
| Running Mate1: | JD Vance |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Nominee2: | Kamala Harris |
| Home State2: | California |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Running Mate2: | Tim Walz |
The 2024 United States presidential election in Alabama is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Alabama voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Alabama has nine electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.[1]
As a Bible Belt state in the Deep South, Alabama is one of the most socially conservative states in the nation. Being a strongly red state, it is expected to remain a safe Republican state in 2024. Following the national Democratic Party's leftward shift in the mid-20th century, the only Democrat to win the Alabaman popular vote in a presidential election after John F. Kennedy in 1960 was Jimmy Carter of neighboring Georgia in 1976. Since then, the only Democrats to come within single digits of winning the state at this level were Carter in 1980 and fellow Southerner Bill Clinton in his 1990s nationwide victories.
No presidential Democrat has won more than 40% of the vote in Alabama since Al Gore of neighboring Tennessee in 2000. Democratic support in Alabama today is often vastly concentrated on the state's largest city of Birmingham and the majority-African American Black Belt.[2]
Incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden initially ran for re-election and became the party's presumptive nominee.[3] However, following what was widely viewed as a poor performance in the June 2024 presidential debate and amid increasing age and health concerns from within his party, he withdrew from the race on July 21 and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who launched her presidential campaign the same day.[4] Biden's withdrawal from the race makes him the first eligible president not to stand for re-election since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968.
Former Republican President Donald Trump is running for re-election to a second non-consecutive term after losing in 2020.[5]
See main article: 2024 Alabama Democratic presidential primary. The Alabama Democratic primary was held on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024.
See main article: 2024 Alabama Republican presidential primary. The Alabama Republican primary was held on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024.
Alabama secretary of state Wes Allen informed the Democratic National Committee that state law would not permit certification in time, as the 2024 Democratic National Convention takes place days after the state deadline.[6] The following month, legislation was approved extending the deadline, allowing Biden to appear on the ballot.[7]
| Source | Ranking | As of | |
|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | Cook Political Report[8] | December 19, 2023 | |
| align=left | Inside Elections[9] | April 26, 2023 | |
| align=left | Sabato's Crystal Ball[10] | June 29, 2023 | |
| align=left | Decision Desk HQ/The Hill[11] | December 14, 2023 | |
| align=left | CNalysis[12] | December 30, 2023 | |
| align=left | CNN[13] | January 14, 2024 | |
| align=left | The Economist[14] | June 12, 2024 | |
| 538[15] | June 11, 2024 | ||
| RCP[16] | June 26, 2024 |
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