sentences:  The population ranking of the following table is based on the 2010 census of Alamance County.† "county seat"
  
  Lying between overwhelmingly liberal and Democratic Orange County and Durham County to the east, equally Democratic Guilford County to the west, and heavily conservative and Republican Randolph County to the southwest, Alamance leans Republican, though not as overwhelmingly as many other suburban counties in the Piedmont Triad.The last Democratic nominee for president to carry Alamance County was Jimmy Carter in 1976.