By Chris Basinger, Staff Reporter
GREATER BIRMINGHAM–Alabama voters turned out for the Super Tuesday primary elections along with residents of 14 other states yesterday to choose their parties’ nominees for the 2024 presidential election.
According to the unofficial election night results posted by the Alabama Secretary of State’s office, front-runners for the nomination President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump appear to have won Alabama’s delegates handily in their respective party primaries.
Biden secured 89.51% of the vote in the Democratic primary with 165,567 votes statewide while Trump won the Republican primary with 486,883 votes, or 83.30% of voters.
Trump was followed by former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley who received 12.92% of the vote.
This year’s primary elections saw relatively low voter turnout compared to previous years with 21.05% or just 793,275 registered voters casting ballots in the state.
Locally, Jefferson County saw an 18.91% turnout with 92,870 ballots cast in total.
Biden won 91.95% of the vote with 39,503 votes in the Democratic primary while Trump received 75.54% of the vote in the Republican primary with 37,132 votes.
Haley got 20.33% of the vote with 9,993 votes in the county.
St. Clair County saw a 21.11% turnout with 14,957 ballots cast.
Biden received 87.50% of the vote with 854 votes while Trump won 87.97% of the vote with 12,209 votes.
Haley got 8.87% of the vote with 1,231 votes.
The results of Super Tuesday nationwide all but confirm that Americans will see a rematch of the 2020 election this November between President Biden and former President Trump.
In the Republican primary, Trump won all of the states up for grabs yesterday but one, losing out to Haley in a surprise win in Vermont, while Biden swept the Democratic primaries across the 15 states that voted.
The Republican and Democratic National Conventions, where the parties will formally select their nominees for president, will be held from July 15-18 and Aug. 19-22 respectively.
