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46 of Alabama's 80 majority-African American municipalities (57.5%) are located within the Black Belt. As of the 2000 census, [6] Alabama's 18-county Black Belt region had a population of 589,041 (13.25% of the state's total population).
As the 2024 election approaches, here's what to know about ballot tracking, vote-by-mail deadlines, and finding your polling site in Alabama.
Republicans ran a token candidate in every Alabama gubernatorial election except for 1930 and 1962. Their highest vote total between disenfranchisement and 1966 was the 21.28% of the vote they gained in 1922. Alabama was unusual among Deep South states in even having a token Republican running in the gubernatorial election.
Wimberley, Ronald C. et al. "A Federal Commission for the Black Belt South" Professional Agricultural Workers Journal (PAWJ) 2#1: 6–9 online; Wimberley, Ronald C.; Morris, Libby V. The Reference Book on Regional Well-Being: U.S. Regions, the Black Belt, Appalachia. (Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University, 1996) online ...
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, argued that the new map kept communities of interest intact, unifying the state’s so-called Black Belt, named for its fertile black soil.
Gudger however, maintained there was evidence to suggest voter fraud had occurred in recent elections and points to a handful of counties within Alabama's black-belt where the percentage of ...
Biden only won Jefferson County and 12 counties in the Black Belt; Trump won all other counties. This election coincided with the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Alabama , where incumbent Democrat Doug Jones – who was elected by a 21,924 vote margin in a 2017 special election – ran for a full six-year term but was defeated by Republican ...
Alabama did not begin consistently tracking absentee votes until 2020, but in each election after the 2020 General Election, the number of statewide absentee ballots have been between 3 and 5%.