| Election Name: | 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama |
| Country: | Alabama |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Next Election: | 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Seats For Election: | All 7 Alabama seats to the United States House of Representatives |
| Election Date: | November 5, 2024 |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Last Election1: | 6 |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Last Election2: | 1 |
The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect the seven U.S. representatives from the state of Alabama, one from each of the state's seven congressional districts. The elections will coincide with the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections.
Candidate qualifying for both major parties ended on November 10, 2023. Primary elections were held on March 5, 2024, as Alabama was a Super Tuesday state in the presidential election calendar.[1] In races where no candidate received over 50% in a primary, runoff elections occurred on April 16, 2024;[2] this occurred in both the Democratic and Republican primaries in Alabama's 2nd congressional district.[3] The general election will be held on November 5, 2024.[4]
See also: Allen v. Milligan.
During the 2020 redistricting cycle, Alabama's congressional map faced legal challenges for alleged violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 27% of Alabama's population is African American, but only one of Alabama's seven districts was drawn with a Black majority. A federal panel initially blocked the 2022 map, finding that the state illegally discriminated against Black voters by not drawing a second majority-Black district.[5] [6] [7] However, on February 7, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States granted a stay on the case that had been requested by the state of Alabama, allowing the map to remain in place for the 2022 elections, but signaled it would fully review the case at a later date.[8] [9]
On June 8, 2023, the Supreme Court affirmed the previous finding that the map discriminated against Black Alabamians. In a 5–4 decision in Allen v. Milligan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Supreme Court's liberal wing (Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor) and ruled in favor of Milligan. The decision, considered an unexpected victory for voting rights activists in Alabama, upheld the federal panel's ruling that Alabama had illegally diluted the power of Black voters.[10] [11] The decision forced Alabama to reconfigure its congressional districts in advance of the 2024 elections, including drawing a second predominantly Black district.[12] The Alabama Legislature was required to convene a special legislative session in order to draw a new map.[13] John Wahl, chair of the Alabama Republican Party, published a statement in reaction to the ruling, stating that the party would "work hard to win all seven congressional seats".
A special session of the Alabama Legislature was called to approve a new congressional map in July 2023, with a deadline of July 21. The Alabama House of Representatives and Alabama Senate passed two different congressional maps separately, neither of which included a second majority-minority district. The Alabama House of Representatives passed a map proposed by Republican Representative Chris Pringle that increased the Black voting age population in Alabama's 2nd congressional district to 42%, but still below the majority-minority threshold. The Alabama Senate passed a map proposed by Republican Senator Steve Livingston that increased it to only 38%.[14] A special conference committee consisting of six members from both wings of the Alabama Legislature passed a new map with additional changes on July 21.[15] The new congressional map was signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey the same day.[16] In the legislature's map, the Black voting age population in Alabama's 7th congressional district was reduced from 55.6% to 50.6%, while Alabama's 2nd congressional district's Black voting age population was increased to 39.9%.[17]
The map enacted by the state was struck down on September 5, confirming speculation by Black lawmakers in the state that it failed to comply with the requirement for a second majority Black district.[18] The panel of judges ruling on the maps wrote that they were "deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the remedy we said federal law requires". The judges appointed a special master, Richard Allen (no relation to Wes Allen or Allen v. Milligan),[19] to take control of the mapmaking process following Alabama lawmakers' defiance.[20] Three proposed maps from the special master were released on September 25. In all of the maps, Coffee County, which was represented by and home to Barry Moore, was moved to Alabama's 1st congressional district, which set up a primary in which Jerry Carl and Moore were both incumbents pitted against each other.[21]
The state of Alabama, under Attorney General of Alabama Steve Marshall, requested a stay on the federal panel's decision to not allow the legislature's new map. On September 26, 2023, the Supreme Court again denied Alabama's request, meaning that the special master's map was to be used in the 2024 elections. All three of the proposed remedial maps raised the Black voting-age population in the second congressional district in ranges from 48.5% to 50.1%.[22] The Alabama Democratic Conference, the Black caucus of the Alabama Democratic Party, also announced the same day that it planned to file an objection to the special master's maps, saying that they did not go far enough to create a majority-minority district. The conference offered its own redistricting map in the objection,[23] but it was denied by the federal panel.[24]
Following another hearing on the case, the federal panel issued an opinion on October 5, 2023, ordering Alabama to implement the congressional map known as Remedial Plan 3, as drawn by the special master. Secretary of State of Alabama Wes Allen said his office would implement the new map for the 2024 elections. In Remedial Plan 3, Alabama's 2nd congressional district has a Black voting-age population of 48.7%, and a Black-preferred candidate was found to have won in 16 of 17 simulated elections.[25]
| Election Name: | 2024 Alabama's 1st congressional district election |
| Country: | Alabama |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 1 |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Next Election: | 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 1 |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Image1: | Rep. Barry Moore official photo.jpg (cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Barry Moore |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Nominee2: | Tom Holmes |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Map Size: | 200px |
| U.S. Representative | |
| Before Election: | Jerry Carl (Republican) Barry Moore (Republican) |
See also: Alabama's 1st congressional district. In the new congressional map, the 1st congressional district encompasses the southernmost parts of the state, including majority white sections of the Wiregrass Region and the city of Mobile. It includes the entirety of Baldwin, Coffee, Covington, Dale, and Escambia counties, including the cities of Bay Minette, Daphne, Enterprise and Ozark.[26] [27] The incumbent is Republican Jerry Carl, who was re-elected with 84.2% of the vote in 2022 against a Libertarian candidate.[28]
The final congressional map for 2024 placed Jerry Carl and Barry Moore into the 1st district, setting up a primary in which Carl and Moore are both incumbents pitted against each other in the same district.[29] On October 30, 2023, Moore confirmed to 1819 News that he would run in the first congressional district, challenging Carl in the Republican primary.[30]
| Campaign finance reports as of June 30, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | |
| Jerry Carl (R) | $2,204,868 | $2,586,226 | $72,539 | |
| Barry Moore (R) | $969,981 | $1,314,556 | $118,222 | |
| Source: Federal Election Commission[31] | ||||
| Date | Location | Host | Moderator | Link | Participants | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < | ----> Participant Absent Invited | ||||||||||
| Carl | Moore | ||||||||||
| 1[32] | January 15, 2024 | Mobile | Mobile County Republican Party | None (forum) | N/A | ||||||
| 2[33] | January 24, 2024 | Daphne | Baldwin County Republican Party | Peter Albrecht Jeff Poor Sean Sullivan | |||||||
| 3[34] | February 8, 2024 | Fairhope | Eastern Shore Republican Women | None (forum) | N/A | ||||||
| 4 | February 19, 2024 | Orange Beach | Baldwin County Conservative Coalition | Robert Monk | N/A | ||||||
| 5[35] | February 21, 2024 | Enterprise | Republican Women of Coffee County | Sheridan Smith | |||||||
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Jerry Carl | Barry Moore | Undecided | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn University | February 27, 2024 | 1,909 (LV) | ± 2.2% | 43% | 35% | 22% | ||
| Montgomery Research | January 2024 | 697 (V) | ± 3.4% | 37% | 41% | 22% |
Moore won the six counties in the eastern part of the district, recording his best performance in his home Coffee County.[36] Meanwhile, Carl won Escambia and Baldwin counties, as well as his home Mobile County.[37]
| Source | Ranking | As of | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | The Cook Political Report[39] | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Inside Elections[40] | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Sabato's Crystal Ball[41] | October 4, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Elections Daily[42] | October 5, 2023 | ||
| align=left | CNalysis[43] | November 16, 2023 |
| Campaign finance reports as of June 30, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | |
| Barry Moore (R) | $969,981 | $1,314,556 | $118,222 | |
| Tom Holmes (D) | $8,469 | $5,968 | $2,001 | |
| Source: Federal Election Commission | ||||
| Election Name: | 2024 Alabama's 2nd congressional district election |
| Country: | Alabama |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 2 |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Next Election: | 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 2 |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Image1: | 3x4.svg |
| Nominee1: | Caroleene Dobson |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Nominee2: | Shomari Figures |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Map Size: | 250px |
| U.S. Representative | |
| Before Election: | None (New seat) |
See also: Alabama's 2nd congressional district. In the new congressional map, the 2nd district encompasses all of Montgomery County and the capital city of Montgomery, as well as majority Black sections of the Wiregrass Region and the city of Mobile. It also includes the entirety of Butler, Macon, Monroe, Pike, and Russell counties, including the cities of Greenville, Monroeville, Troy, and Tuskegee. The district is currently represented by Republican Barry Moore, who was re-elected with 69.12% of the vote in 2022; however, Moore's home county of Coffee was drawn out of the 2nd district and into the first. This left the district with no incumbent, as Moore instead chose to run in the 1st district.[28]
| Campaign finance reports as of June 30, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | |
| Greg Albritton (R) | $187,965 | $187,965 | $0 | |
| Dick Brewbaker (R) | $2,129,338 | $2,129,219 | $119 | |
| Caroleene Dobson (R) | $2,218,688 | $1,746,874 | $471,813 | |
| Wallace Gilberry (R) (withdrew) | $165,335 | $165,335 | $0 | |
| Hampton Harris (R) | $58,137 | $56,310 | $1,827 | |
| Source: Federal Election Commission[55] | ||||
| Date and location | Host | Moderator | Link | Participants | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < | ----> Participant Absent Invited < | ----> Withdrawn | |||||||||||
| Albritton | Brewbaker | Dobson | DuPriest | Harris | Shepperson | Thomas | |||||||
| 1[56] | January 9, 2024 Prichard | United Alliance for Change[57] | Kym Anderson | N/A | |||||||||
| 2 | January 15, 2024 Mobile | Mobile County Republican Party | None (forum) | N/A | |||||||||
| 3[58] | January 29, 2024 Greenville | Butler County Republican Party | Cliff Burkette | N/A | |||||||||
| 4[59] | February 15, 2024 Montgomery | Montgomery County Republican Party Capital City Young Republicans | None (forum) | N/A | |||||||||
| 5[60] | February 25, 2024 Montgomery | Alabama Republican Party Gray Television | Mark Bullock Lenise Ligon | WSFA-12 | |||||||||
| 6[61] | February 29, 2024 Mobile | Mobile United | Kesshia Davis Janelle Adams | ||||||||||
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Greg Albritton | Dick Brewbaker | Caroleene Dobson | Wallace Gilberry | Undecided | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilberry withdraws from the race | ||||||||||||||||
| McLaughlin & Associates (R) | December 5–7, 2023 | 300 (LV) | ± ? | 12% | 24% | 5% | 5% | 54% | ||||||||
| Campaign finance reports as of June 30, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | |
| Dick Brewbaker (R) | $2,129,338 | $2,129,219 | $119 | |
| Caroleene Dobson (R) | $2,218,688 | $1,746,874 | $471,813 | |
| Source: Federal Election Commission | ||||
| Campaign finance reports as of June 30, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | |
| James Averhart (D) | $8,876 | $6,240 | $2,757 | |
| Napoleon Bracy Jr. (D) | $201,092 | $196,476 | $4,615 | |
| Merika Coleman (D) | $142,030 | $110,017 | $32,013 | |
| Anthony Daniels (D) | $567,548 | $554,083 | $13,464 | |
| Shomari Figures (D) | $894,272 | $592,324 | $301,948 | |
| Juandalynn Givan (D) | $150,251 | $126,936 | $23,314 | |
| Jeremy Gray (D) | $161,092 | $160,830 | $262 | |
| Phyllis Harvey-Hall (D) | $16,284 | $5,610 | $10,894 | |
| Willie Lenard (D) | $53,721 | $51,681 | $2,039 | |
| Vimal Patel (D) | $16,300 | $11,218 | $0 | |
| Source: Federal Election Commission[78] | ||||
| Date and location | Host | Moderator | Link | Participants | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < | ----> Participant Absent Invited < | ----> Withdrawn | ||||||||||||||
| Averhart | Bracy Jr. | Coleman | Daniels | Figures | Givan | Gray | Harvey-Hall | Lenard | Petal | |||||||
| 1 | January 9, 2024 Prichard | United Alliance for Change | Kym Anderson | N/A | ||||||||||||
| 2[79] | January 25, 2024 Montgomery | Rollin to the Polls | Unknown | |||||||||||||
| 3 | February 20, 2024 Montgomery | Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund | Tafeni English-Relf | Vimeo | ||||||||||||
| 4[80] | February 22, 2024 Montgomery | Montgomery Metro Ministers Union | Valorie Lawson | |||||||||||||
| 5 | February 25, 2024 Montgomery | Alabama Democratic Party Gray Television | Mark Bullock Lenise Ligon | WSFA-12 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | February 29, 2024 Mobile | Mobile United | Kesshia Davis Janelle Adams | |||||||||||||
| 7[81] | March 3, 2024 Selma | Transform Alabama | Mark A. Thompson | N/A | ||||||||||||
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | James Averhart | Napoleon Bracy, Jr. | Merika Coleman | Anthony Daniels | Shomari Figures | Juandalynn Givan | Jeremy Gray | Darryl Sinkfield | Others | Undecided | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lester & Associates | January 19–24, 2024 | 400 (LV) | ± 4.0% | 4% | 16% | 6% | 8% | 13% | 1% | 3% | – | – | 49% | ||||
| Sinkfield withdraws from the race | |||||||||||||||||
| Impact Research (D) | December 16–20, 2023 | 400 (LV) | ? | – | 15% | 6% | 8% | 9% | 2% | 4% | 5% | 4% | 47% | ||||
Figures won eight counties, performing best in the two westernmost counties of the district: Mobile and Washington. Daniels won four counties in the eastern part, securing his best result in Bullock County, where he graduated from high school. Bracy likewise performed well in the western portion of the district, carrying Clarke County. [82]
| Campaign finance reports as of June 30, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | |
| Anthony Daniels (D) | $567,548 | $554,083 | $13,464 | |
| Shomari Figures (D) | $894,272 | $592,324 | $301,948 | |
| Source: Federal Election Commission | ||||
| Source | Ranking | As of | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | The Cook Political Report | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Inside Elections | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Sabato's Crystal Ball | October 4, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Elections Daily | October 5, 2023 | ||
| align=left | CNalysis | November 16, 2023 |
| Election Name: | 2024 Alabama's 3rd congressional district election |
| Country: | Alabama |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 3 |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Next Election: | 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 3 |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Image1: | Rep. Mike Rogers official portrait, 118th Congress (alt crop).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Mike Rogers |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Map Size: | 200px |
| U.S. Representative | |
| Before Election: | Mike Rogers |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
See also: Alabama's 3rd congressional district. The 3rd district is based in eastern Alabama, taking in Calhoun, Etowah, Lee, and Talladega counties, including the cities of Anniston, Auburn, Gadsden, and Talladega. The incumbent is Republican Mike Rogers, who was re-elected with 71.3% of the vote in 2022.[28]
Rogers has qualified to run for reelection. Rogers faced criticism from conservative colleagues over his initial refusal to support Jim Jordan in the October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, as well as his stated willingness to compromise with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to elect a different candidate.[83] In response, members of the Alabama Republican Party state executive committee, including members from the 3rd district, threatened to file a challenge against Rogers' ballot access in the 2024 election.[84] On October 16, 2023, Rogers issued a statement endorsing Jordan for Speaker of the House, reversing his position and establishing his support for Jordan.[85]
No Democratic candidates qualified to run in this district, though Rogers faced two unsuccessful primary challengers.[86]
| Campaign finance reports as of February 14, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | |
| Barron Rae Bevels (R) | $270 | $3,816 | $479 | |
| Bryan Newell (R) | $6,475 | $6,057 | $172 | |
| Mike Rogers (R) | $1,711,825 | $1,114,626 | $1,625,534 | |
| Source: Federal Election Commission[90] | ||||
| Source | Ranking | As of | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | The Cook Political Report | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Inside Elections | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Sabato's Crystal Ball | October 4, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Elections Daily | October 5, 2023 | ||
| align=left | CNalysis | November 16, 2023 |
| Election Name: | 2024 Alabama's 4th congressional district election |
| Country: | Alabama |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 4 |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Next Election: | 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 4 |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Image1: | Robert Aderholt official photo (cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Robert Aderholt |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Map Size: | 200px |
| U.S. Representative | |
| Before Election: | Robert Aderholt |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
See also: Alabama's 4th congressional district. The 4th district is located in rural north-central Alabama, including Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, and Marion counties, as well as half of Lauderdale and Tuscaloosa counties. Blount County was also re-added to the district with the new map.[91] It includes the cities of Cullman, Haleyville, Jasper, and Muscle Shoals. In 2022, according to the Cook Partisan Voting Index, it was the most Republican district in the country, with an index rating of R+33.[92] The incumbent is Republican Robert Aderholt, who was re-elected with 84.2% of the vote in 2022.[28]
No Democratic candidates qualified to run in this district, though Aderholt faced one unsuccessful primary challenger, Justin Holcomb.
| Campaign finance reports as of February 14, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | |
| Robert Aderholt (R) | $816,371 | $837,622 | $1,138,193 | |
| Justin Holcomb (R) | $6,200 | $4,616 | $3,669 | |
| Source: Federal Election Commission[94] | ||||
| Source | Ranking | As of | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | The Cook Political Report | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Inside Elections | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Sabato's Crystal Ball | October 4, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Elections Daily | October 5, 2023 | ||
| align=left | CNalysis | November 16, 2023 |
| Election Name: | 2024 Alabama's 5th congressional district election |
| Country: | Alabama |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 5 |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Next Election: | 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 5 |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Image1: | Dale_Strong_official_House_portrait (cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Dale Strong |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Map Size: | 200px |
| U.S. Representative | |
| Before Election: | Dale Strong |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
See also: Alabama's 5th congressional district. The 5th district is based in northern Alabama, including the city of Huntsville, as well as Athens, Decatur, Madison, and Scottsboro, as well as half of Lauderdale County. The incumbent is first-term Republican Dale Strong, who was elected with 67.2% of the vote in 2022.[28]
No Democratic candidates qualified to run in this district. Strong initially faced one primary challenger, former state representative Daniel Boman, who was a member of the Democratic Party during most of his tenure, but switched back to the Republican Party after leaving office.[96] Boman faced a challenge to his candidacy from within the Alabama Republican Party; he was officially removed from the ballot in December 2023. This effectively left Strong unopposed in 2024.[97]
| Source | Ranking | As of | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | The Cook Political Report | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Inside Elections | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Sabato's Crystal Ball | October 4, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Elections Daily | October 5, 2023 | ||
| align=left | CNalysis | November 16, 2023 |
| Election Name: | 2024 Alabama's 6th congressional district election |
| Country: | Alabama |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 6 |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Next Election: | 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 6 |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Image1: | Gary Palmer - 2018 (cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Gary Palmer |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Nominee2: | Elizabeth Anderson |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Map Size: | 200px |
| U.S. Representative | |
| Before Election: | Gary Palmer |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
See also: Alabama's 6th congressional district. The 6th district encompasses the central part of the state near Greater Birmingham, taking in the northeastern parts of the city of Birmingham and Jefferson County, as well as the surrounding suburbs, including Bibb, Chilton, Coosa, and Shelby counties. Other cities include Alabaster, Hoover and Montevallo. The incumbent is Republican Gary Palmer, who was re-elected with 84.7% of the vote in 2022 against a Libertarian candidate.[28]
Palmer's re-election campaign gained attention due to his 2014 signing of the U.S. Term Limits Pledge and campaign promise to not run for more than five terms to Congress. Palmer's previous statements meant that he would have retired in 2024, however, Palmer chose to seek a sixth term in this election.[99] Palmer cited his reasons for seeking re-election, including recent high turnover in Alabama's congressional delegation, his rise to Republican leadership within the House of Representatives,[100] and personal prayer, saying that he had "prayed for God to give me clarity on it". He disputed media reports (including an article by AL.com) that characterized his five-term limit as being part of the U.S. Term Limits pledge, when in fact, the pledge only applied to sponsoring legislation. However, Palmer acknowledged that he did claim during his 2014 campaign that he would serve no more than five terms, and said he would "own that", regarding breaking that campaign promise.[101]
| Campaign finance reports as of February 14, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | |
| Gary Palmer (R) | $1,167,042 | $1,260,807 | $352,300 | |
| Gerrick Wilkins (R) | $275,121 | $270,506 | $4,615 | |
| Source: Federal Election Commission[105] | ||||
| Source | Ranking | As of | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | The Cook Political Report | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Inside Elections | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Sabato's Crystal Ball | October 4, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Elections Daily | October 5, 2023 | ||
| align=left | CNalysis | November 16, 2023 |
| Campaign finance reports as of February 14, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | |
| Gary Palmer (R) | $1,385,658 | $1,620,289 | $211,433 | |
| Elizabeth Anderson (D) | $26,618 | $15,172 | $11,445 | |
| Source: Federal Election Commission | ||||
| Election Name: | 2024 Alabama's 7th congressional district election |
| Country: | Alabama |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 7 |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Next Election: | 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama#District 7 |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Image1: | Terri Sewell 116th Congress.jpg |
| Nominee1: | Terri Sewell |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Nominee2: | Robin Litaker |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Map Size: | 200px |
| U.S. Representative | |
| Before Election: | Terri Sewell |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
See also: Alabama's 7th congressional district. The 7th district encompasses the west-central part of the state in the Black Belt, including the cities of Demopolis, Greensboro, and Selma, as well as taking in majority-black areas of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. The incumbent is Democrat Terri Sewell, who was re-elected with 63.6% of the vote in 2022.[28]
Sewell is running for reelection to an eighth term.[109] [110] State senator and Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton formed an exploratory committee to run against Sewell,[111] but ultimately did not enter the race. However, Sewell did face one unsuccessful Democratic primary challenger, Chris Davis.
In the Republican primary, candidate Christian Horn officially withdrew from the race on February 25, 2024, leaving Robin Litaker as the only active candidate seeking the Republican nomination. 1819 News reported that votes for Horn would not be certified, and that the Alabama Republican Party had been notified of Horn's withdrawal. However, Horn won the primary on March 5 despite his withdrawal.[112] The Alabama Republican Party later published a press release clarifying that Horn had dropped out of the race and Litaker would be the party's nominee in 2024.[113]
| Source | Ranking | As of | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | The Cook Political Report | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Inside Elections | October 20, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Sabato's Crystal Ball | October 4, 2023 | ||
| align=left | Elections Daily | October 5, 2023 | ||
| align=left | CNalysis | November 16, 2023 |
| Campaign finance reports as of February 14, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | |
| Terri Sewell (D) | $2,031,082 | $1,281,941 | $3,645,072 | |
| Robin Litaker (R) | $8,224 | $5,969 | $2,255 | |
| Source: Federal Election Commission | ||||