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| ”’Arthur D. Shores”’ || ”’4,639”’ || ”’72.35%”’

| ”’Arthur Shores”’ || ”’4,639”’ || ”’72.35%”’

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| ”Three uncommitted”{{efn|Leon Thomasino: 1,151 votes, 17.95%; Larry Cooper: 622 votes, 9.70%}} || ”1,773” || ”27.65%”

| ”Three uncommitted”{{efn|Leon Thomasino: 1,151 votes, 17.95%; Larry Cooper: 622 votes, 9.70%}} || ”1,773” || ”27.65%”
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| Mrs. Gri Cashio || 1,910 || 29.60%

| Mrs. Gri Cashio || 1,910 || 29.60%

| ”’Robert S. Vance”’ || ”’3,807”’ || ”’59.00%”’

| ”’Robert Vance”’ || ”’3,807”’ || ”’59.00%”’

| Albert Domm (M) || 22 || 0.34%

| Albert Domm (M) || 22 || 0.34%

| Marie Stokes Jemison || 714 || 11.06%

| Marie Stokes Jemison || 714 || 11.06%
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| ”’Rufus Lewis”’ || ”’3,809”’ || ”’51.23%”’

| ”’Rufus Lewis”’ || ”’3,809”’ || ”’51.23%”’

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| Ned T. Ellis || 3,626 || 48.77%

| Ned T. Ellis || 3,626 || 48.77%
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| ”’Joe C. McCorquodale”’ || ”’22,669”’ || ”’68.44%”’

| ”’Joe McCorquodale”’ || ”’22,669”’ || ”’68.44%”’

| ”Two regulars”{{efn|Broox G. Garrett: 7,517 votes, 22.69%; Wallace Pruitt: 1,370 votes, 4.14%}} || ”8,887” || ”26.83%”

| ”Two regulars”{{efn|Broox G. Garrett: 7,517 votes, 22.69%; Wallace Pruitt: 1,370 votes, 4.14%}} || ”8,887” || ”26.83%”

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Latest revision as of 05:15, 16 September 2025

1972 Alabama Democratic presidential primary
 
Candidate George Wallace Regulars/Loyalists Uncommitted
Home state Alabama — —
Delegate count 23 DD 6 DD 0
Popular vote 356,822[a] 123,346 79,949
Percentage 61.17% 21.14% 13.70%

Delegate district results

A presidential primary was held in the U.S. state of Alabama on May 2, 1972 to elect delegates representing Alabama to the 1972 Democratic National Convention. To elect its thirty-five pledged delegates, the state was divided into twenty-nine delegate districts based on population and Hubert Humphrey‘s performance in the state in 1968, which would each nominate a delegate. These twenty-nine delegates would then elect six at-large delegates.[1] Of the twenty-nine delegates up for election in May, twenty-three of them were on Wallace’s official slate. This victory gave pro-Wallace delegates the ability to determine the six remaining at-large delegates. Six delegates elected from districts and the two ex-officio delegates were considered to be party loyalists.[2] No runoff was needed as all delegates attained more than 50% of votes cast.

At the convention, all twenty-three district delegates pledged to Wallace voted for him, as well as one at-large delegate. Nine delegates, all of whom were Black, voted for nominee George McGovern. Five of the Black McGovern delegates were appointed at-large by the Wallace district delegate majority in order to meet the convention’s racial diversity quota, as the Wallace district delegation was entirely White. U.S. Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington state and former Governor Terry Sanford of Governor of North Carolina received one vote each, and U.S. Representative Wilbur Mills from Arkansas’s 2nd received two.[3]

By delegate district

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In the “Others” column, (W) denotes delegate candidates pledged to Wallace but not on his official slate, (H) for Hubert Humphrey, (J) for Henry M. Jackson, (McG) for George McGovern, and (M) for Edmund Muskie.[4]

District George Wallace-endorsed slate Regulars/Loyalists Others Uncommitted Total
Candidate Votes % Candidate Votes % Candidate Votes % Candidate Votes %
1st James L. Hunt 16,806 60.80% Edward F. Mauldin 4,813 17.41% — — — Two uncommitted[b] 6,024 21.79% 27,643
2nd Fred C. Folsom 19,063 66.70% Don B. Horton 2,422 8.47% — — — Five uncommitted[c] 7,096 24.83% 28,581
3rd Jack Giles 11,323 60.80% John L. McDaniel 1,915 10.28% Bill Anderson (W) 783 4.20% Seven uncommitted[d] 4,602 24.71% 18,623
4th Bill Williams 13,140 57.02% Louise Rodgers 2,143 9.30% Three others[e] 7,763 24.71% — — — 23,046
5th Robert Hitt 16,474 52.73% Roy Davis McCord 7,646 24.47% Virgil M. Smith (W) 3,250 10.40% Two uncommitted[f] 3,872 12.39% 31,242
6th James E. Wilson 21,702 69.78% Bill Fite 4,847 15.59% — — — Three uncommitted[g] 4,550 14.63% 31,099
7th Hugh Boles 17,285 72.07% Ralph Reid 3,067 12.79% — — — Three uncommitted[h] 3,630 15.14% 23,982
8th — — — David H. Hood Jr. 5,487 59.52% — — — Two uncommitted[i] 3,732 40.48% 9,219
9th Frank A. Stacey 6,170 52.00% Thermon Coggins 803 6.77% — — — Three uncommitted[j] 4,893 41.24% 11,866
10th — — — Arthur Shores 4,639 72.35% — — — Three uncommitted[k] 1,773 27.65% 6,412
11th Mrs. Gri Cashio 1,910 29.60% Robert Smith Vance 3,807 59.00% Albert Domm (M) 22 0.34% Marie Stokes Jemison 714 11.06% 6,453
12th Jess Lanier 8,731 61.09% Two regulars[l] 4,870 34.08% J. Richard Riddle (H) 244 1.71% Two uncommitted[m] 447 3.13% 14,292
13th P. Graves Musgrove 7,140 59.94% Don A. Hawkins 4,772 40.06% — — — — — — 11,912
14th George Wingard 14,281 58.96% Ray Hartwell 4,398 18.16% 2 others[n] 4,267 17.62% Lewis P. Roberts 1,277 5.27% 24,223
15th J. Groce Pratt 8,183 64.83% Joseph W. Mallisham 2,810 22.26% — — — Theodore Caselberry 1,629 12.91% 12,622
16th James L. Chancy 21,608 67.73% Jane K. Dishuck 5,249 16.45% Bill Johnston (W) 1,767 5.54% Louise Moody Shils 3,281 10.28% 31,905
17th John B. McKinney 18,315 63.28% Tom Radney 7,168 24.76% — — — Hubert Hubbard 3,462 11.96% 28,945
18th I. Drayton Pruitt 9,820 54.32% Andrew M. Hayden 7,240 40.05% — — — John Greene Jr. 1,018 5.63% 18,078
19th Earl Goodwin Unopposed — — — — — — — — — —
20th — — — Rufus A. Lewis 3,809 51.23% — — — Ned T. Ellis 3,626 48.77% 7,435
21st Hilda Smilie 17,487 66.54% Robert P. Arrington 3,401 12.94% — — — Four uncommitted[o] 5,392 20.52% 26,280
22nd Billy Brabham 8,356 47.29% Thomas Reed 9,313 52.71% — — — — — — 17,669
23rd I. J. Scott 14,143 69.62% Whit Whittelsey 1,960 9.65% Two others[p] 2,954 14.54% Emmett L. Fulgham 1,258 6.19% 20,315
24th Joe McCorquodale III 22,669 68.44% Two regulars[q] 8,887 26.83% — — — Keith Trawick 1,566 4.73% 33,122
25th Abner Powell 27,377 74.68% Ed Byrd 4,768 13.01% — — — Three uncommitted[r] 4,512 12.31% 36,657
26th Mrs. S. A. Cherry 23,090 82.02% E. Terry Brown 3,986 14.16% — — — Manning Warren 1,077 3.83% 28,153
27th L. W. Brannan 17,181 68.83% Kenneth G. Parker 2,054 8.23% — — — Two uncommitted[s] 5,726 22.94% 24,961
28th Clarence Snowden 14,568 62.99% Patricia G. Edington 2,595 11.22% William Westbrook (W) 1,681 7.27% Four uncommitted[t] 4,283 18.52% 23,127
29th — — — Isom Clemon 4,477 89.79% — — — S. Eilene McLoughlin 509 10.21% 4,986
Source: The Birmingham News[5]
  1. ^ Excludes popular vote totals from delegate candidates aligned with but not on Wallace’s endorsed slate.
  2. ^ Murray Beasley: 4,694 votes, 16.98%; Grady E. Sockwell: 1,330 votes, 4.81%
  3. ^ Jim Folsom: 2,446 votes, 8.56%; Estus Durham: 1,765 votes, 6.18%; Mike Maurer: 1,159 votes, 4.06%; Avery Thornhill: 1,064 votes, 3.72%; Gerald Colson: 662 votes, 2.32%
  4. ^ Robert Bell: 875 votes, 4.70%; Joseph Conwell: 780 votes, 4.19%; William A. Brown: 701 votes, 3.76%; Mrs. Joe S. Elliott: 697 votes, 3.74%; Robert T. Schwenn: 692 votes, 3.72%; Mary Shepard Hughes: 603 votes, 3.24%; Grace C. Nixon: 254 votes, 1.36%
  5. ^ Clayton Carter (W): 4,555 votes, 19.76%; Bob Haas (J): 1,958 votes, 8.50%; Richard E. Cordray (McG): 1,250 votes, 5.42%
  6. ^ Howard McCullars: 2,382 votes, 7.62%; Argus Kelley: 1,490 votes, 4.77%
  7. ^ William T. Adkins: 2,123 votes, 6.83%; Delmer Duboise: 1,726 votes, 5.55%; Alton M. Hambric: 701 votes, 2.25%
  8. ^ Bob Dickinson: 1,812 votes, 7.56%; J. C. Gentle: votes, 899 3.75%; Don Watts: 919 votes, 3.83%
  9. ^ Jack Goodwin: 2,536 votes, 27.51%; Henry Varner Jr.: 1,196 votes, 12.97%
  10. ^ Mrs. Bernice C. Johnson: 3,526 votes, 29.72%; James M. Burns: 687 votes, 5.79%; John A. Tortorici: 680 votes, 5.73%
  11. ^ Leon Thomasino: 1,151 votes, 17.95%; Larry Cooper: 622 votes, 9.70%
  12. ^ Alan T. Drennen Jr.: 3,991 votes, 27.92%; Marge Sparks Fullan: 879 votes, 6.15%
  13. ^ Fred L. Goldstein: 301 votes, 2.11%; Marcus W. Lee: 146 votes, 1.02%
  14. ^ Dwight L. Evans (W): 2,531 votes, 10.45%; Margaret Stewart (W): 1,736 votes, 7.17%
  15. ^ Reggie Hamner: 2,117 votes, 8.06%; Robert H. Carpenter Jr.: 1,533 votes, 5.83%; Eric Anderson: 1,085 votes, 4.13%; Albert Roemer: 657 votes, 2.50%
  16. ^ Donald P. Foshee (H): 1,619 votes, 7.97%; Richard S. Rush (McG): 1,335 votes, 6.57%
  17. ^ Broox G. Garrett: 7,517 votes, 22.69%; Wallace Pruitt: 1,370 votes, 4.14%
  18. ^ Tommy Chapman: 1,936 votes, 5.28%; Mary O. Carnley Purvis: 1,047 votes, 2.86%; Larry Grissett: 1,529 votes, 4.17%
  19. ^ Dan Alexander: 4,385 votes, 17.57%; Wallace M. Johnston: 1,341 votes, 5.37%
  20. ^ Ellis V. Ollinger: 1,994 votes, 8.62%; Edwin Zelnicker Jr.: 1,109 votes, 4.80%; Susan P. Youngblood: 819 votes, 3.54%; Charles Gudac: 361 votes, 1.56%

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