2016 Alabama Democratic presidential primary

none June 2025 September 2023 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries 2016 Alabama Democratic presidential primary Alabama presidential no 2012 United States presidential election in Alabama#Primary elections 2012 2020 Alabama Democratic presidential primary 2020 SC AS 2016 03 01 Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg 0.5 Hillary Clinton d4aa00 New York 309,928 77.84% 44 Bernie Sanders September 2015 cropped.jpg 0.5 Bernie Sanders 228B22 Vermont 76,399 19.19% 9 2016 Alabama Democratic primary results by county.svg 250px County resultsClinton: #FDEB40 <50% #F3CA1E 50–60% #D4AA00 60–70% #AE8400 70–80% #6E4400 80–90% #552B00 >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 Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries Results Results of the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries Primary date: March 1, 2016 National delegates: 60 Results by county Countyhttps://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/counties/al/Dem 2016 Election Center CNN June 4, 2017 Clinton % Sanders %OthersTotalsTurnoutMargin Autauga 2,38780.0% 544 18.2% Baldwin 5,29064.7% 2,694 32.9% Barbour 2,56790.6% 222 7.8% Bibb 94275.5% 246 19.7% Blount 56455.1% 395 38.6% Bullock 2,45191.3% 178 6.6% Butler 2,19692.1% 156 6.5% Calhoun 5,01176.5% 1,425 21.8% Chambers 2,89988.6% 312 9.5% Cherokee 71266.1% 268 24.9% Chilton 86073.1% 289 24.6% Choctaw 1,77280.2% 273 12.4% Clarke 3,14893.0% 213 6.3% Clay 80781.8% 135 13.7% Cleburne 22173.2% 72 23.8% Coffee 1,49377.2% 389 20.1% Colbert 3,87965.0% 1,342 22.5% Conecuh 2,03171.4% 544 19.1% Coosa 1,01287.7% 125 10.8% Covington 73777.3% 188 19.7% Crenshaw 90887.8% 107 10.3% Cullman 1,27560.8% 723 34.5% Dale 1,54477.0% 415 20.7% Dallas 8,57774.4% 1,774 15.4% DeKalb 1,29762.9% 667 32.3% Elmore 3,01980.1% 694 18.4% Escambia 2,02788.5% 226 9.9% Etowah 4,26274.6% 1,289 22.6% Fayette 66076.7% 148 17.2% Franklin 1,23348.4% 767 30.1% Geneva 54474.9% 157 21.6% Greene 2,71490.1% 213 7.1% Hale 2,42679.6% 427 14.0% Henry 1,17085.6% 163 11.9% Houston 3,04478.3% 780 20.1% Jackson 1,32770.0% 510 26.9% Jefferson 67,35781.6% 14,319 17.4% Lamar 44261.6% 173 24.1% Lauderdale 3,67665.2% 1,745 30.9% Lawrence 2,04777.7% 428 16.2% Lee 7,13773.6% 2,464 25.4% Limestone 3,19972.8% 1,120 25.5% Lowndes 3,78288.7% 330 7.7% Macon 4,29389.2% 483 10.0% Madison 19,99568.6% 8,786 30.1% Marengo 3,59065.8% 1,092 20.0% Marion 56765.5% 256 29.6% Marshall 1,49462.1% 821 34.1% Mobile 28,92782.7% 5,672 16.2% Monroe 2,43890.9% 205 7.6% Montgomery 28,65086.2% 4,266 12.8% Morgan 3,89773.1% 1,345 25.2% Perry 2,57582.0% 389 12.4% Pickens 2,32676.2% 453 14.8% Pike 2,18383.7% 379 14.5% Randolph 1,23670.6% 328 18.7% Russell 4,38172.8% 988 16.4% Shelby 6,65762.8% 3,755 35.4% St. Clair 1,80869.3% 745 28.6% Sumter 2,98780.9% 416 11.3% Talladega 5,56186.5% 782 12.2% Tallapoosa 2,65888.0% 308 10.2% Tuscaloosa 12,13676.7% 3,444 21.8% Walker 1,72267.1% 727 27.5% Washington 1,51157.5% 562 21.4% Wilcox 3,33784.3% 410 10.4% Winston 30366.7% 138 30.4%Total 309,92877.8%76,399 19.2% 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.http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/al/Dem 2016 Election Center CNN 2016-09-24 Clinton also won the white vote by a margin of 59–38.http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/al/Dem 2016 Election Center CNN 2016-09-24 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.https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/alabama Alabama Primary Election Results 2016-08-07 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.http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/26/politics/hillary-clinton-alabama-political-anthropology/index.html Southern liberals have a fondness for Hillary Clinton Jeff Simon, Vanessa Yurkevich and Contessa Gayles CNN 2016-09-24 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.http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-campaign-rewrites-history-of-losses-653984323970 Sanders campaign rewrites history of Super Tuesday losses 2016-08-07 References 30em Alabama Democratic primary 2016 Category:March 2016 in the United States