- Source: 1972 United States presidential election in Alabama
The 1972 United States presidential election in Alabama was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent President Richard Nixon won Alabama, winning 72.43% of the vote to George McGovern's 25.54%. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Dallas County, Hale County, Russell County, and Perry County in the Black Belt voted for the Republican candidate, and stands as the strongest ever performance by a Republican presidential candidate in the state.
83% of white voters supported Nixon while 14% supported McGovern. Nixon would also be the first presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 to win Alabama and the election. Alabama and Tennessee were the only states where McGovern won any county that voted for George Wallace in 1968.
Results
= Results by presidential elector
== Results by county
=Counties that flipped from American Independent to Republican
Autauga
Baldwin
Barbour
Bibb
Blount
Butler
Calhoun
Chambers
Cherokee
Chilton
Choctaw
Clarke
Clay
Cleburne
Coffee
Colbert
Conecuh
Coosa
Covington
Crenshaw
Cullman
Dale
Dallas
DeKalb
Elmore
Escambia
Etowah
Fayette
Franklin
Geneva
Hale
Henry
Houston
Jefferson
Lee
Jackson
Lauderdale
Lawrence
Limestone
Madison
Marengo
Marion
Marshall
Monroe
Morgan
Mobile
Montgomery
Shelby
Perry
Pickens
Pike
Randolph
Russell
St. Clair
Talladega
Tallapoosa
Tuscaloosa
Walker
Washington
Winston
Counties that flipped from American Independent to Democratic
Bullock
Lowndes
Wilcox
See also
United States presidential elections in Alabama
Notes
References
Works cited
Black, Earl; Black, Merle (1992). The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674941306.
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