Alabama Presidential Election Results

Electors for President (2544 of 2577 precincts)

George Bush (R) 1,171,067 62.51%
John Kerry (D) 690,123 36.84%
Ralph Nader (I) 6,658 .36%
Michael Badnarik (I) 3,523 .19%
Michael Peroutka (I) 2,000 .11%

George W. Bush has won the largest percentage of the popular vote in Alabama of any presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972.

Here are the popular vote numbers from the 20th Century in Alabama:

2000: George W. Bush - 56.5%, Al Gore - 41.6%, Ralph Nader - 1.1%

1996: Robert Dole - 50.1%, Bill Clinton - 43.2%, Ross Perot - 6.0%

1992: George Bush - 47.6%, Bill Clinton - 40.9%, Ross Perot - 10.8%

1988: George Bush - 59.2%, Michael Dukakis - 39.9%

1984: Ronald Reagan - 60.5%, Walter Mondale - 38.3%

1980: Ronald Reagan - 48.8%, Jimmy Carter - 47.4%, John Anderson - 1.2%

1976: Jimmy Carter - 55.7%, Gerald Ford - 42.6%

1972: Richard Nixon - 72.4%, George McGovern - 25.5%

1968: George Wallace - 65.9%, Hubert Humphrey - 18.7%, Richard Nixon - 14.0%

1964: Barry Goldwater - 69.5%, Lyndon Johnson - 30.5%

1960: John F. Kennedy - 56.8%, Richard Nixon - 41.7%

1956: Adlai Stevenson - 56.5%, Dwight Eisenhower - 39.4%

1952: Adlai Stevenson - 64.6%, Dwight Eisenhower - 35.0%

1948: Strom Thurmond - 79.7%, Thomas Dewey - 19.0%, Harry Truman - not on ballot

1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt - 81.3%, Thomas Dewey - 18.2%

1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt - 85.2%, Wendell Willkie - 14.3%

1936: Frankin D. Roosevelt - 86.4%, Alf Landon - 12.8%

1932: Herbert Hoover - 51.3%, Franklin D. Roosevelt - 48.5%

1928: Alfred Smith - 51.3%, Herbert Hoover - 48.5%

1924: John Davis - 68.8%, Calvin Coolidge - 26.0%, Robert La Follette - 4.9%

1920: James Cox - 66.7%, Warren Harding - 31.9%, Eugene V. Debs - 1.0%

1916: Woodrow Wilson - 69.9%, Charles Hughes - 19.2%, Allan Benson - 8.3%, Frank Hanley-2.6%

1912: Woodrow Wilson - 69.9%, Theodore Roosevelt - 19.2%, William Taft - 8.3%, Eugene V. Debs - 2.6%

1908: William Jennings Bryan - 70.7%, William Taft - 24.3%, Eugene V. Debs - 1.4%

1904: Alton Parker - 73.4%, Theodore Roosevelt - 20.7%, Eugene V. Debs - 0.8%

1900: William Jennings Bryan - 60.8%, William McKinley - 34.8%, John Wooley - 1.7%