Alabama US Senate 2026
Election day is November 3, 2026. A statewide contest in Alabama.
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What the Alabama US Senate election decides
The Senate confirms federal judges and cabinet officers, ratifies treaties, and can stop legislation the House passes. With a six-year term and a hundred-member chamber, a single seat is a larger share of the institution than any House district, which is why Senate races draw national money into state contests.
Each state sends two senators regardless of population, so this seat carries the same weight as California's or Wyoming's. Alabama voters fill it alongside all 7 of the state's House seats and the governorship, and a Senate term runs six years, spanning two future Congresses and, in this case, the next presidential election.
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. That backdrop is the ground any Alabama campaign fights on, and it is what the Electorate HQ simulation reads first when it weighs a ticket's platform against this contest.
About this race
The 2026 United States Senate election in Alabama will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Alabama. Republican congressman Barry Moore and Democratic attorney Everett Wess are the nominees for their respective parties. Republican incumbent Tommy Tuberville is not seeking a second term in order to run for governor.
Primary elections were held on May 19, which were followed by runoffs for both parties on June 16 after no candidates received a majority. Moore won the Republican runoff with 55.8% of the vote over businessman Jared Hudson and Wess won the Democratic runoff with 54.6% of the vote over businessman Dakarai Larriett.
Republican primary
Latest coverage of the Alabama US Senate race
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Every Alabama House district, the counties inside each one, and an address lookup that resolves your exact districts are on the Alabama state page.
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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.