Alabama's electoral votes in U.S. presidential elections 1820-2020
Ronald Reagan's victory in 1980, and Donald Trump carried Alabama by a comfortable margin in the 2020 election. Since being admitted to the union in 1819, Alabama's number of electoral college votes grew from just three in 1820, to twelve in the 1910s and 1920s; due to changing population distribution across the U.S., Alabama has had nine electoral votes in each U.S. presidential election since 1972, however this is expected to drop to just eight following the most recent U.S. census.
The U.S. presidential election has been contested in Alabama on 50 occasions since 1820, and Alabama has successfully voted for the winning candidate in 26 of these elections, giving an overall success rate of 52 percent. The Democratic nominee has won the state 31 times, although Alabama has been a safe, Republican "red state" since