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Alabama 2000 vs 2012: county swing

48 of 67 counties moved toward the Republican ticket; 5 changed hands.

Autauga County: swing R+5.0Blount County: swing R+31.2Chambers County: swing R+1.6Chilton County: swing R+25.4Colbert County: swing R+20.5Dale County: swing R+6.1Elmore County: swing R+6.1Hale County: swing D+3.9Lawrence County: swing R+32.1Limestone County: swing R+21.4Monroe County: swing D+8.1Pickens County: swing R+5.1Talladega County: swing R+6.1Choctaw County: swing R+6.1Clarke County: swing D+4.0Cleburne County: swing R+35.2Coffee County: swing R+18.6Coosa County: swing R+10.1Dallas County: swing D+20.2Etowah County: swing R+29.0Franklin County: swing R+28.5Geneva County: swing R+23.1Henry County: swing R+10.6Jackson County: swing R+45.1Lee County: swing D+0.6Lowndes County: swing D+6.3Macon County: swing R+0.2Madison County: swing R+6.3Marion County: swing R+41.7Marshall County: swing R+36.0Mobile County: swing D+4.7Montgomery County: swing D+22.2Shelby County: swing D+0.1Sumter County: swing D+8.8Tuscaloosa County: swing R+1.7Wilcox County: swing D+13.9Bibb County: swing R+24.6Bullock County: swing D+12.8Calhoun County: swing R+15.1Baldwin County: swing R+8.0Clay County: swing R+17.1Crenshaw County: swing R+17.6Fayette County: swing R+33.8Jefferson County: swing D+9.2Marengo County: swing D+5.6Morgan County: swing R+21.6St. Clair County: swing R+21.7Washington County: swing R+22.1Barbour County: swing D+2.2Butler County: swing R+0.8Cherokee County: swing R+46.5Conecuh County: swing D+0.1Covington County: swing R+25.0DeKalb County: swing R+26.2Escambia County: swing R+4.5Greene County: swing D+9.2Houston County: swing R+0.5Lamar County: swing R+28.0Lauderdale County: swing R+19.6Perry County: swing D+10.6Randolph County: swing R+20.0Russell County: swing R+3.2Tallapoosa County: swing R+10.0Walker County: swing R+45.5Winston County: swing R+32.3Cullman County: swing R+37.4Pike County: swing D+2.5
Red: toward the Republican ticket. Blue: toward the Democratic ticket.
County20002012SwingVotes 2000Votes 2012
Cherokee County R+8.4 R+54.9 R+46.5 7,823 9,792
Walker County R+7.3 R+52.8 R+45.5 25,641 28,585
Jackson County flipped D+3.3 R+41.8 R+45.1 17,906 20,632
Marion County R+19.7 R+61.4 R+41.7 11,756 12,129
Cullman County R+31.9 R+69.3 R+37.4 29,525 34,555
Marshall County R+23.9 R+59.9 R+36.0 27,989 32,644
Cleburne County R+32.8 R+68.0 R+35.2 5,092 6,319
Fayette County R+19.5 R+53.3 R+33.8 7,808 7,958
Winston County R+39.9 R+72.2 R+32.3 9,318 9,728
Lawrence County flipped D+5.2 R+26.9 R+32.1 12,185 14,148
Blount County R+42.8 R+74.0 R+31.2 17,973 24,060
Etowah County R+9.3 R+38.3 R+29.0 39,348 42,624
Franklin County R+11.9 R+40.4 R+28.5 11,103 10,881
Lamar County R+25.1 R+53.1 R+28.0 7,249 7,176
DeKalb County R+28.4 R+54.6 R+26.2 20,285 23,950
Chilton County R+34.9 R+60.3 R+25.4 15,092 17,485
Covington County R+33.2 R+58.2 R+25.0 13,613 15,439
Bibb County R+22.0 R+46.6 R+24.6 7,101 8,420
Geneva County R+39.9 R+63.0 R+23.1 9,559 11,331
Washington County R+9.6 R+31.7 R+22.1 7,596 8,787
St. Clair County R+44.2 R+65.9 R+21.7 24,090 35,235
Morgan County R+22.8 R+44.4 R+21.6 42,681 49,459
Limestone County R+22.1 R+43.5 R+21.4 23,634 35,540
Colbert County flipped D+0.2 R+20.3 R+20.5 21,532 23,444
Randolph County R+19.8 R+39.8 R+20.0 7,919 10,421
Lauderdale County R+11.2 R+30.8 R+19.6 32,137 37,032
Coffee County R+30.6 R+49.2 R+18.6 15,434 19,821
Crenshaw County R+17.9 R+35.5 R+17.6 4,795 6,424
Clay County R+28.4 R+45.5 R+17.1 5,883 6,679
Calhoun County R+16.7 R+31.8 R+15.1 38,909 46,364
Henry County R+18.4 R+29.0 R+10.6 6,932 8,766
Coosa County R+6.1 R+16.2 R+10.1 4,567 5,282
Tallapoosa County R+22.3 R+32.3 R+10.0 16,253 18,851
Baldwin County R+47.6 R+55.6 R+8.0 56,480 85,491
Madison County R+12.3 R+18.6 R+6.3 113,318 155,428
Choctaw County flipped D+1.5 R+4.6 R+6.1 7,374 7,976
Dale County R+36.0 R+42.1 R+6.1 15,806 18,601
Elmore County R+42.6 R+48.7 R+6.1 23,804 35,546
Talladega County R+9.9 R+16.0 R+6.1 25,451 33,416
Pickens County R+1.9 R+7.0 R+5.1 8,540 9,621
Autauga County R+41.0 R+46.0 R+5.0 17,208 23,973
Escambia County R+21.0 R+25.5 R+4.5 11,660 14,894
Russell County D+14.9 D+11.7 R+3.2 14,775 18,910
Tuscaloosa County R+15.7 R+17.4 R+1.7 60,114 78,772
Chambers County R+3.5 R+5.1 R+1.6 11,834 14,629
Butler County R+6.7 R+7.5 R+0.8 7,803 9,502
Houston County R+39.7 R+40.2 R+0.5 32,057 41,984
Macon County D+74.4 D+74.2 R+0.2 8,831 10,396
Conecuh County D+1.5 D+1.6 D+0.1 5,551 7,025
Shelby County R+55.5 R+55.4 D+0.1 62,128 92,742
Lee County R+20.5 R+19.9 D+0.6 38,264 54,496
Barbour County D+0.9 D+3.1 D+2.2 10,395 11,517
Pike County R+16.2 R+13.7 D+2.5 10,544 14,123
Hale County D+21.6 D+25.5 D+3.9 7,731 8,647
Clarke County R+12.2 R+8.2 D+4.0 10,752 13,860
Mobile County R+13.9 R+9.2 D+4.7 139,745 175,140
Marengo County D+1.6 D+7.2 D+5.6 9,608 11,543
Lowndes County D+46.8 D+53.1 D+6.3 6,243 7,523
Monroe County R+15.8 R+7.7 D+8.1 8,951 10,717
Sumter County D+45.7 D+54.5 D+8.8 6,088 7,030
Greene County D+60.4 D+69.6 D+9.2 4,396 5,343
Jefferson County flipped R+3.2 D+6.0 D+9.2 273,763 304,523
Perry County D+39.6 D+50.2 D+10.6 5,787 6,101
Bullock County D+40.0 D+52.8 D+12.8 4,904 5,322
Wilcox County D+34.8 D+48.7 D+13.9 5,126 6,555
Dallas County D+19.5 D+39.7 D+20.2 18,464 20,964
Montgomery County D+2.0 D+24.2 D+22.2 80,328 102,067

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data