Alabama Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures discusses how redistricting and newly drawn district lines played a role in voter turnout and his victory.

Allison Montgomery, a Democrat who just flipped a Republican-held legislative seat in north Alabama, will become the state’s first openly transgender lawmaker. Montgomery campaigned in her district in north Alabama on protecting public education, improving Huntsville healthcare and ending local data center projects. The District 25 seat had been held by Republicans for at least 20 years, and ...

A turbulent year in Alabama politics came to a head with Tuesday’s general election. In 2027, the state will have a new governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and junior U.S. Senator. The state will still have two Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling led to a special legislative session and an exceedingly rare special primary election. It ...

Election night is over, and Alabama remained red. Not many other states can say that. Most Alabama Republicans held on in the face of a national blue wave that saw Democrats win many surprising races, including in some neighboring states. Georgia elected a Democratic governor, the first Black woman in U.S. history to hold that title, and as of Wednesday morning, a Mississippi Senate race was ...

Fox News anchor Trace Gallagher reports on projected gubernatorial victories for GOP nominee Tommy Tuberville in Alabama and Democratic nominee Jocelyn Benson in Michigan on 'FOX News Democracy 26.'

The U.S. Department of Justice is deploying about 1,000 election monitors and observers nationwide, including teams assigned to three Alabama counties, as part of its largest election monitoring operation in history.

Gubernatorial candidate Doug Jones and his wife Louise tell their supporters that the race is not over during the his election night watch party in Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday ev

Former U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl is now future U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl, after winning election to a congressional seat he previously held from 2021 to 2025. The Mobile Republican won the race to represent Alabama’s 1st Congressional District over Democratic nominee Clyde Jones Jr., a Daphne pastor. Carl had 59% of the vote and Jones 41 percent, according to the Alabama Secretary of State’s website. ...

Going into Tuesday’s elections, the only sure thing for Alabama House District 65 was that it would get new representation. Nominally, it pitted a Republican, longtime law enforcement officer John Knapp,

Florence resident Curtis Brian Webber, a 58-year-old who is running as a write-in candidate under the name Brian O’Brien Webber, was arrested at the Jack’s restaurant on Cloverdale Road on Election Day.