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| Alabama's 2nd congressional district | |
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| Representative | |
| Area | 10,608 sq mi (27,470 km2) |
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| Population (2024) | 703,362[1] |
| Median household income | $54,977[2] |
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| Cook PVI | D+5[3] |
Alabama's 2nd congressional district is a United Statescongressional district inAlabama, which elects a representative to theUnited States House of Representatives. It shares most ofMontgomery metropolitan area, and includes the city ofMobile, and stretches into theWiregrass Region in the eastern portion of the state. The district encompasses portions ofClarke andMobile counties and the entirety ofBarbour,Bullock,Butler,Conecuh,Crenshaw,Macon,Monroe,Montgomery,Pike,Russell, andWashington counties. Other cities in the district includeGreenville andTroy.
The district is represented byDemocratShomari Figures, after being elected in 2024.
The 2nd was completely overhauled in advance of the2024 elections, as a consequence of theUnited States Supreme Court's decision inAllen v. Milligan, which ordered Alabama to create a secondblack opportunity district. Following this, theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama appointed aspecial master to create new maps for the state, which resulted in the 2nd joining the7th as the state's two opportunity districts.[4] RepresentativeBarry Moore's home county of Coffee was drawn out of this district and into the1st, where he decided to run instead.[5]
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There are several small-to-medium-sized cities spread throughout the district.Fort Novosel andMaxwell-Gunter Air Force Base are both within its bounds, as isTroy University.
White voters here were among the first in Alabama to shift from the Democratic Party; the old-line Southern Democrats in this area began splitting their tickets as early as the 1950s. Southeast Alabama is one of the most Republican regions in both Alabama and the nation. It has only supported a Democrat for president once since 1956, whenJimmy Carter carried it in 1976.
In 2008, voters elected three-term mayor of MontgomeryBobby Bright to Congress, making him the first Democrat to hold the seat since 1964. Bright then lost reelection to RepublicanMartha Roby in 2010, who was a member of the Montgomery City Council. Roby did not run for reelection in the 2020 election, and RepublicanBarry Moore was elected to the open seat. At the state and local level, however, conservative Democrats continued to hold most offices as late as 2002.
In the2008 United States presidential election, voters gaveJohn McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, 63.42% of the vote;Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate, received 36.05%, attracting voters beyond the substantial (and expected) African-American minority.
The district gives its congressmen very long tenures in Washington; only six people have represented it from 1923 to 2021, with five of six holding it for at least 10 years and four of six holding it for at least 15 years. Barry Moore, elected in 2021, represented the district when it was redrawn in 2023; since the district was redrawn, he has continued his congressional career in the neighboring 1st district.[6]
The new 2nd district includes the heavier African American communities ofButler,Macon,Monroe,Pike, andRussell counties as well as the state capital ofMontgomery, Alabama.[7]
For the119th and successive Congresses (based on the districts drawn following the Supreme Court's decision inAllen v. Milligan), the district contains all or portions of the following counties and communities.[8]
Macon County(4)
Pike County(4)
| Year | Office | Results[9] |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | President | Obama 55% - 44% |
| 2012 | President | Obama 57% - 43% |
| 2016 | President | Clinton 54% - 43% |
| Senate | Crumpton 54% - 46% | |
| 2017 | Senate (Spec.) | Jones 66% - 33% |
| 2018 | Governor | Maddox 57% - 43% |
| Lt. Governor | Boyd 57% - 43% | |
| Attorney General | Siegelman 59% - 41% | |
| 2020 | President | Biden 56% - 43% |
| Senate | Jones 58% - 41% | |
| 2022 | Senate | Boyd 49.3% - 48.8% |
| Governor | Ivey 49% - 48% | |
| Attorney General | Major 51% - 49% | |
| Secretary of State | Laffitte 50% - 47% | |
| 2024 | President | Harris 53% - 45% |
These are the results from the previous twelve election cycles in Alabama's 2nd district.[10]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Terry Everett (incumbent) | 129,233 | 68.75 | |
| Democratic | Charles Woods | 55,495 | 29.52 | |
| Libertarian | Floyd Shackelford | 2,948 | 1.57 | |
| Write-in | 289 | 0.15 | ||
| Total votes | 187,965 | 100.00 | ||
| Republicanhold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Terry Everett (incumbent) | 177,086 | 71.42 | |
| Democratic | Charles D. "Chuck" James | 70,562 | 28.46 | |
| Write-in | 299 | 0.12 | ||
| Total votes | 247,947 | 100.00 | ||
| Republicanhold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Terry Everett (incumbent) | 124,302 | 69.47 | |
| Democratic | Charles D. "Chuck" James | 54,450 | 30.43 | |
| Write-in | 167 | 0.09 | ||
| Total votes | 178,919 | 100.00 | ||
| Republicanhold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Bobby Bright | 144,368 | 50.23 | |||
| Republican | Jay Love | 142,578 | 49.61 | |||
| Write-in | 448 | 0.16 | ||||
| Total votes | 287,394 | 100.00 | ||||
| Democraticgain fromRepublican | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Martha Roby | 111,645 | 50.97 | |||
| Democratic | Bobby Bright (incumbent) | 106,865 | 48.79 | |||
| Write-in | 518 | 0.24 | ||||
| Total votes | 219,028 | 100.00 | ||||
| Republicangain fromDemocratic | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Martha Roby (incumbent) | 180,591 | 63.60 | |
| Democratic | Therese Ford | 103,092 | 36.31 | |
| Write-in | 270 | 0.10 | ||
| Total votes | 283,953 | 100.00 | ||
| Republicanhold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Martha Roby (incumbent) | 113,103 | 67.34 | |
| Democratic | Erick Wright | 54,692 | 32.56 | |
| Write-in | 157 | 0.09 | ||
| Total votes | 167,952 | 100.00 | ||
| Republicanhold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Martha Roby (incumbent) | 134,886 | 48.75 | |
| Democratic | Nathan Mathis | 112,089 | 40.51 | |
| Write-in | 29,709 | 10.74 | ||
| Total votes | 276,684 | 100.00 | ||
| Republicanhold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Martha Roby (incumbent) | 138,879 | 61.39 | |
| Democratic | Tabitha Isner | 86,931 | 38.43 | |
| Write-in | 420 | 0.19 | ||
| Total votes | 226,230 | 100.00 | ||
| Republicanhold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Barry Moore | 197,996 | 65.22 | |
| Democratic | Phyllis Harvey-Hall | 105,286 | 34.68 | |
| Write-in | 287 | 0.10 | ||
| Total votes | 303,569 | 100.00 | ||
| Republicanhold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Barry Moore (incumbent) | 137,460 | 69.12 | |
| Democratic | Phyllis Harvey-Hall | 58,014 | 29.17 | |
| Libertarian | Jonathan Realz | 3,396 | 1.71 | |
| Total votes | 198,870 | 100.00 | ||
| Republicanhold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Shomari Figures | 157,092 | 54.56 | |||
| Republican | Caroleene Dobson | 130,847 | 45.44 | |||
| Total votes | 287,939 | 100.00 | ||||
| Democraticgain fromRepublican | ||||||
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