2016 Alabama Democratic presidential primary
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%
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.

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

 2016 Democratic Party's presidential nominating process in Alabama
– Summary of results –
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Martin O'Malley (campaign) (withdrawn) 1,485 0.37%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
Autauga2,38780.0%54418.2%
Baldwin5,29064.7%2,69432.9%
Barbour2,56790.6%2227.8%
Bibb94275.5%24619.7%
Blount56455.1%39538.6%
Bullock2,45191.3%1786.6%
Butler2,19692.1%1566.5%
Calhoun5,01176.5%1,42521.8%
Chambers2,89988.6%3129.5%
Cherokee71266.1%26824.9%
Chilton86073.1%28924.6%
Choctaw1,77280.2%27312.4%
Clarke3,14893.0%2136.3%
Clay80781.8%13513.7%
Cleburne22173.2%7223.8%
Coffee1,49377.2%38920.1%
Colbert3,87965.0%1,34222.5%
Conecuh2,03171.4%54419.1%
Coosa1,01287.7%12510.8%
Covington73777.3%18819.7%
Crenshaw90887.8%10710.3%
Cullman1,27560.8%72334.5%
Dale1,54477.0%41520.7%
Dallas8,57774.4%1,77415.4%
DeKalb1,29762.9%66732.3%
Elmore3,01980.1%69418.4%
Escambia2,02788.5%2269.9%
Etowah4,26274.6%1,28922.6%
Fayette66076.7%14817.2%
Franklin1,23348.4%76730.1%
Geneva54474.9%15721.6%
Greene2,71490.1%2137.1%
Hale2,42679.6%42714.0%
Henry1,17085.6%16311.9%
Houston3,04478.3%78020.1%
Jackson1,32770.0%51026.9%
Jefferson67,35781.6%14,31917.4%
Lamar44261.6%17324.1%
Lauderdale3,67665.2%1,74530.9%
Lawrence2,04777.7%42816.2%
Lee7,13773.6%2,46425.4%
Limestone3,19972.8%1,12025.5%
Lowndes3,78288.7%3307.7%
Macon4,29389.2%48310.0%
Madison19,99568.6%8,78630.1%
Marengo3,59065.8%1,09220.0%
Marion56765.5%25629.6%
Marshall1,49462.1%82134.1%
Mobile28,92782.7%5,67216.2%
Monroe2,43890.9%2057.6%
Montgomery28,65086.2%4,26612.8%
Morgan3,89773.1%1,34525.2%
Perry2,57582.0%38912.4%
Pickens2,32676.2%45314.8%
Pike2,18383.7%37914.5%
Randolph1,23670.6%32818.7%
Russell4,38172.8%98816.4%
Shelby6,65762.8%3,75535.4%
St. Clair1,80869.3%74528.6%
Sumter2,98780.9%41611.3%
Talladega5,56186.5%78212.2%
Tallapoosa2,65888.0%30810.2%
Tuscaloosa12,13676.7%3,44421.8%
Walker1,72267.1%72727.5%
Washington1,51157.5%56221.4%
Wilcox3,33784.3%41010.4%
Winston30366.7%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.[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

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