2016 Alabama Democratic presidential primary
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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 2016 Alabama Democratic presidential primary
| country = Alabama
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 2012 Alabama Democratic primary
| previous_year = 2012
| next_election = 2020 Alabama Democratic primary
| next_year = 2020
| outgoing_members = SC
| elected_members = AS
| election_date = {{Start date|2016|03|01}}
| image1 = Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg
| image1_upright= 0.5
| candidate1 = Hillary Clinton
| color1 = d4aa00
| home_state1 = New York
| popular_vote1 = 309,928
| percentage1 = 77.84%
| delegate_count1 = 44
| image2 = Bernie Sanders September 2015 cropped.jpg
| image2_upright= 0.5
| candidate2 = Bernie Sanders
| color2 = 228B22
| home_state2 = Vermont
| popular_vote2 = 76,399
| percentage2 = 19.19%
| delegate_count2 = 9
| map_image = 2016 Alabama Democratic primary results by county.svg
| map_size = 250px
| map_caption = County results
Clinton: {{legend0|#FDEB40|<50%}} {{legend0|#F3CA1E|50–60%}} {{legend0|#D4AA00|60–70%}} {{legend0|#AE8400|70–80%}} {{legend0|#6E4400|80–90%}} {{legend0|#552B00|>90%}}
}}
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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
{{see also|Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries}}
{{Alabama Democratic primary polls, 2016}}
Results
{{see also|Results of the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries}}
Primary date: March 1, 2016
National delegates: 60
{{2016ALDem}}
=Results by county=
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! width="11%" | County{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/counties/al/Dem|title=2016 Election Center|work=CNN|access-date=June 4, 2017}} ! width="10%" | Clinton ! width="10%" | % ! width="10%" | Sanders ! width="10%" | % !Others !Totals !Turnout !Margin | ||||
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Autauga | 2,387 | 80.0% | 544 | 18.2%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Baldwin | 5,290 | 64.7% | 2,694 | 32.9%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Barbour | 2,567 | 90.6% | 222 | 7.8%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Bibb | 942 | 75.5% | 246 | 19.7%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Blount | 564 | 55.1% | 395 | 38.6%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Bullock | 2,451 | 91.3% | 178 | 6.6%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Butler | 2,196 | 92.1% | 156 | 6.5%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Calhoun | 5,011 | 76.5% | 1,425 | 21.8%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Chambers | 2,899 | 88.6% | 312 | 9.5%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Cherokee | 712 | 66.1% | 268 | 24.9%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Chilton | 860 | 73.1% | 289 | 24.6%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Choctaw | 1,772 | 80.2% | 273 | 12.4%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Clarke | 3,148 | 93.0% | 213 | 6.3%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Clay | 807 | 81.8% | 135 | 13.7%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Cleburne | 221 | 73.2% | 72 | 23.8%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Coffee | 1,493 | 77.2% | 389 | 20.1%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Colbert | 3,879 | 65.0% | 1,342 | 22.5%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Conecuh | 2,031 | 71.4% | 544 | 19.1%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Coosa | 1,012 | 87.7% | 125 | 10.8%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Covington | 737 | 77.3% | 188 | 19.7%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Crenshaw | 908 | 87.8% | 107 | 10.3%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Cullman | 1,275 | 60.8% | 723 | 34.5%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Dale | 1,544 | 77.0% | 415 | 20.7%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Dallas | 8,577 | 74.4% | 1,774 | 15.4%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | DeKalb | 1,297 | 62.9% | 667 | 32.3%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Elmore | 3,019 | 80.1% | 694 | 18.4%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Escambia | 2,027 | 88.5% | 226 | 9.9%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Etowah | 4,262 | 74.6% | 1,289 | 22.6%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Fayette | 660 | 76.7% | 148 | 17.2%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Franklin | 1,233 | 48.4% | 767 | 30.1%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Geneva | 544 | 74.9% | 157 | 21.6%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Greene | 2,714 | 90.1% | 213 | 7.1%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Hale | 2,426 | 79.6% | 427 | 14.0%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Henry | 1,170 | 85.6% | 163 | 11.9%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Houston | 3,044 | 78.3% | 780 | 20.1%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Jackson | 1,327 | 70.0% | 510 | 26.9%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Jefferson | 67,357 | 81.6% | 14,319 | 17.4%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Lamar | 442 | 61.6% | 173 | 24.1%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Lauderdale | 3,676 | 65.2% | 1,745 | 30.9%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Lawrence | 2,047 | 77.7% | 428 | 16.2%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Lee | 7,137 | 73.6% | 2,464 | 25.4%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Limestone | 3,199 | 72.8% | 1,120 | 25.5%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Lowndes | 3,782 | 88.7% | 330 | 7.7%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Macon | 4,293 | 89.2% | 483 | 10.0%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Madison | 19,995 | 68.6% | 8,786 | 30.1%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Marengo | 3,590 | 65.8% | 1,092 | 20.0%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Marion | 567 | 65.5% | 256 | 29.6%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Marshall | 1,494 | 62.1% | 821 | 34.1%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Mobile | 28,927 | 82.7% | 5,672 | 16.2%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Monroe | 2,438 | 90.9% | 205 | 7.6%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Montgomery | 28,650 | 86.2% | 4,266 | 12.8%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Morgan | 3,897 | 73.1% | 1,345 | 25.2%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Perry | 2,575 | 82.0% | 389 | 12.4%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Pickens | 2,326 | 76.2% | 453 | 14.8%
| | | | |
| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Pike | 2,183 | 83.7% | 379 | 14.5%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Randolph | 1,236 | 70.6% | 328 | 18.7%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Russell | 4,381 | 72.8% | 988 | 16.4%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Shelby | 6,657 | 62.8% | 3,755 | 35.4%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | St. Clair | 1,808 | 69.3% | 745 | 28.6%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Sumter | 2,987 | 80.9% | 416 | 11.3%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Talladega | 5,561 | 86.5% | 782 | 12.2%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Tallapoosa | 2,658 | 88.0% | 308 | 10.2%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Tuscaloosa | 12,136 | 76.7% | 3,444 | 21.8%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Walker | 1,722 | 67.1% | 727 | 27.5%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Washington | 1,511 | 57.5% | 562 | 21.4%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Wilcox | 3,337 | 84.3% | 410 | 10.4%
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| style="background:#D4AA00;" | Winston | 303 | 66.7% | 138 | 30.4%
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| |Total | 309,928 | 77.8% | 76,399 | 19.2%
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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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/al/Dem|title=2016 Election Center|website=CNN|access-date=2016-09-24}} Clinton also won the white vote by a margin of 59–38.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/al/Dem|title=2016 Election Center|website=CNN|access-date=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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/alabama|title=Alabama Primary Election Results|access-date=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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/26/politics/hillary-clinton-alabama-political-anthropology/index.html|title=Southern liberals have a fondness for Hillary Clinton|author=Jeff Simon, Vanessa Yurkevich and Contessa Gayles|website=CNN|access-date=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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-campaign-rewrites-history-of-losses-653984323970|title=Sanders campaign rewrites history of Super Tuesday losses|access-date=2016-08-07}}
References
{{reflist|30em}}
{{2016 Democratic primaries}}