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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Alabama are scheduled on November 5, 2024. Voters will elect seven candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's seven U.S. House districts.
The congressional district boundaries for the 2024 elections in Alabama will change after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on June 8, 2023, that the state's congressional redistricting plan adopted on November 4, 2021, violated the Voting Rights Act and must be redrawn to include a second majority-black district. Click here for more information.
The primary was March 5, 2024, and a primary runoff was April 16, 2024. The filing deadline was November 10, 2023.
Partisan breakdown
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Alabama | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Republican | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 7 | 9 |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Barry Moore (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
- Tom Holmes (Democratic Party)
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Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
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Republican primary candidates
- Jerry Carl (Incumbent)
- Barry Moore (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 2
General election candidates
- Shomari Figures (Democratic Party)
- Caroleene Dobson (Republican Party)
Democratic primary runoff candidates
Republican primary runoff candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- James Averhart
- Napoleon Bracy Jr.
- Merika Coleman
- Anthony Daniels ✔
- Shomari Figures ✔
- Juandalynn Givan
- Jeremy Gray
- Phyllis Harvey-Hall
- Willie Lenard
- Vimal Patel
- Larry Darnell Simpson
Did not make the ballot:
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- Greg Albritton
- Dick Brewbaker ✔
- Caroleene Dobson ✔
- Karla DuPriest
- Wallace Gilberry (unofficially withdrew)
- Hampton Harris
- Stacey Shepperson
- Belinda Thomas
Did not make the ballot:
- Barry Moore (Incumbent)
- Simon Mark Alvarez
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District 3
General election candidates
- Mike Rogers (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
The Democratic Party primary was canceled. No candidates filed for this race.
Republican primary candidates
- Mike Rogers (Incumbent) ✔
- Barron Rae Bevels
- Bryan Newell
Did not make the ballot:
District 4
General election candidates
- Robert Aderholt (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
The Democratic Party primary was canceled. No candidates filed for this race.
Republican primary candidates
- Robert Aderholt (Incumbent) ✔
- Justin Holcomb
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 5
General election candidates
- Dale Strong (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Elizabeth Tedder (Independent)
Democratic primary candidates
The Democratic Party primary was canceled. No candidates filed for this race.
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Dale Strong (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 6
General election candidates
- Gary Palmer (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
- Elizabeth Anderson (Democratic Party)
- Kevin Stewart (Independent)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey Republican primary candidates
- Gary Palmer (Incumbent) ✔
- Ken McFeeters
- Gerrick Wilkins
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 7
General election candidates
- Terri Sewell (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- Robin Litaker (Republican Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Christian Horn (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
- Terri Sewell (Incumbent) ✔
- Chris Davis
Republican primary candidates
- Christian Horn ✔ (unofficially withdrew)
- Robin Litaker
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Alabama
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from three outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, and Sabato's Crystal Ball. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Alabama's 1st Congressional District
- Alabama's 2nd Congressional District
- Alabama's 3rd Congressional District
- Alabama's 4th Congressional District
- Alabama's 5th Congressional District
- Alabama's 6th Congressional District
- Alabama's 7th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Alabama in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Alabama, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
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| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Alabama | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | N/A | Fixed by party | 11/10/2023 | Source |
| Alabama | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 3% of all votes cast for governor in the district in the last election | N/A | 3/5/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Alabama.
| Alabama U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
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| Year | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 36 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 57.1% | 6 | 85.7% | ||||
| 2022 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 21 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 35.7% | 1 | 16.7% | ||||
| 2020 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 25 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 35.7% | 1 | 20.0% | ||||
| 2018 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 23 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 50.0% | 3 | 42.9% | ||||
| 2016 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 28.6% | 4 | 57.1% | ||||
| 2014 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 20 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 28.6% | 3 | 50.0% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Alabama in 2024. Information below was calculated on 1/10/2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Thirty-six candidates filed to run for Alabama's seven U.S. House districts, including 15 Democrats and 21 Republicans. That's 5.14 candidates per district, more than in the previous three election cycles. There were 3.14 candidates per district in 2022, 3.57 candidates per district in 2020, and 3.28 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines that a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama approved on Oct. 5, 2023. The 36 candidates who filed to run this year were a decade-high. Twenty-one candidates ran in 2022, 25 in 2020, 23 in 2018, 16 in 2016, 20 in 2014, and 23 in 2012.
Two incumbents—Reps. Jerry Carl (R) and Barry Moore (R)—filed to run against each other in the redrawn 1st congressional district. Carl was the incumbent in the 1st district, and Moore was the incumbent in the 2nd congressional district.
As of January 2024, Cook PVI was not yet available for Alabama's U.S. House districts in place for the 2024 elections. That data will be made available here once it is published.
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Alabama[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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| Alabama's 1st | 24.3% | 74.7% | ||
| Alabama's 2nd | 55.7% | 43.3% | ||
| Alabama's 3rd | 29.0% | 70.0% | ||
| Alabama's 4th | 18.5% | 80.6% | ||
| Alabama's 5th | 35.6% | 62.8% | ||
| Alabama's 6th | 30.4% | 68.4% | ||
| Alabama's 7th | 64.0% | 35.1% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Alabama's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Alabama | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Republican | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 7 | 9 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Alabama's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Alabama, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Kay Ivey
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| Lieutenant Governor | Will Ainsworth
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| Secretary of State | Wes Allen
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| Attorney General | Steve Marshall
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State legislature
Alabama State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 8 | |
| Republican Party | 27 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 35 | |
Alabama House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 28 | |
| Republican Party | 75 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 2 | |
| Total | 105 | |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
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