By ALEC ETHEREDGE | Publisher
As lines built outside of doors for nearly two hours at some polling locations, Tuesday, Nov. 5 marked another successful General Election turnout.
For both Shelby County and the state of Alabama, voter turnout for the 2024 General Election showed drastic improvement from the midterm election in 2022, while numbers were similar to those we saw for the most recent General cycle in 2020.
With 100 percent of the vote counted by early Wednesday morning, 114,806 residents from Shelby County had cast a ballot out of 178,383 registered voters in the county.
That gave the county a voter turnout of 64.36 percent for the election, which was slightly down from 2020’s 69.56 percent, but still remained strong for the county with a percentage higher than 60.
Among the state’s 10 largest counties, Shelby County had the highest voter turnout according to the immediate projections.
It also fell short of matching the 2016 turnout of 71 percent, but the total number of registered voters has grown by 35,570 since 2016 and 13,416 more since 2020.