Alabama elections in 2026

Alabama US Senate: D 38.5 to R 59.8, safe Republican, well sourced. Barry Moore Wins Open Alabama Senate Seat for Republicans

Alabama Governor: D 48.0 to R 52.0, lean Republican, well sourced. Tommy Tuberville wins Alabama governor race in competitive contest against Doug Jones

House delegation as simulated: 2 D, 5 R, 0 tossups of 7 districts swept.

Model readings of live reporting, not polling. The full Alabama board, with sourcing and the county map where one exists, is on the Midterms 2026 tab of the homepage.

How Alabama votes

Alabama's politics run through Birmingham's medical and banking economy, the Huntsville aerospace corridor, and a large rural and small-town electorate. The state has leaned strongly Republican in statewide contests for a generation, with Democratic strength concentrated in its cities and the Black Belt.

Its largest population centers include Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery. Where a state's people live, and what those places do for a living, is the starting point for how Electorate HQ simulations reason about it.

On the ballot in Alabama

Election day is November 3, 2026. Alabama has 2 statewide races and 7 House seats on the ballot.

Statewide races

House districts

Every House seat is elected every two years. Each district below is listed with the counties inside it, computed from the current Census boundary files, wherever those files give a clean answer. Not sure which district is yours? Use the address lookup below.

• Alabama 1st district: Baldwin, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva, Henry, Houston Counties
• Alabama 2nd district: Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Macon, Mobile, Monroe and 4 more counties (12 in all)
• Alabama 3rd district: Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Etowah, Lee, Randolph and 3 more counties (11 in all)
• Alabama 4th district: Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale and 5 more counties (13 in all)
• Alabama 5th district: Jackson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan Counties
• Alabama 6th district: Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Coosa, Elmore, Shelby Counties
• Alabama 7th district: Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lowndes, Marengo and 4 more counties (12 in all)

Find your exact districts

Which district am I in? Alabama districts by county

House districts follow population, not county lines, so a single county can hold several districts and a single district can span many. Each county is listed under the district that holds its center, so if your county appears once above, that district holds most of it and is probably yours. If it appears under several, or if you live near a district line, use the address lookup for the exact answer.

Before you vote in Alabama

Registration deadlines, early voting windows, mail ballot rules and identification requirements are all set at the state level and change between cycles, so the authoritative source is your own election office rather than any national site. The federal directory at vote.gov links to every state's registration system, and your county election office publishes the sample ballot that includes local contests.

The ballot section above covers the federal and statewide offices on the Alabama ballot for November 3, 2026. Each statewide race links to a page with current coverage and an AI-generated simulation of the contest, always labeled as a simulation rather than a poll.

Local races

Local councils and commissions, school boards, judges, sheriffs and municipal offices are also on many Alabama ballots, and they vary block by block. Your county election office publishes the authoritative local sample ballot.

Alabama's weight in Washington

Alabama carries 9 electoral votes, which ranks it 23 of 51 by that measure, and sends 7 voting members to the House.

That arithmetic is why the same national argument lands differently here than in a state of another size: a candidate courting Alabama is competing for a specific share of the map, and the issues below are the ones that share actually turns on.

How Alabama is represented

Alabama is divided into 7 House districts, each drawn to hold roughly the same number of people, while its two Senate seats represent the state as a whole. A campaign here therefore runs two different arguments at once: a local one shaped by whichever district a voter lives in, and a statewide one that has to hold together across all 7.

Electoral votes follow the same arithmetic, House seats plus two, which is why Alabama carries 9 in a presidential year and why small states carry proportionally more weight there than population alone would give them. The district list above shows every district on the 2026 ballot and the counties the boundary files place inside each one.

Latest Alabama political headlines

Simulate Alabama

In the Electorate HQ simulator, Alabama is one of 51 delegations that reads current reporting and decides a presidential race issue by issue. Results are AI simulations, clearly labeled, with the reasoning shown for every call. See the methodology for what that does and does not mean.

Analysis covering Alabama

• Alabama has the most evenly sized congressional map in the country

  Every redistricting argument is about the extremes. Here is the opposite: the state whose seven districts land within a factor of three of each other.

• Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026

  The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.

• The 2026 Senate map covers 62% of the country and 70% of the states

  Thirty-five of fifty states vote for Senate this year. Weighted by people rather than states the share drops, and that gap is the design of the chamber.