2nd Congressional District

Democrat Shomari Figures has won election to Alabama’s newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District. That flips a seat that had been previously held by the GOP. Figures defeated Republican Caroleene Dobson to win the open seat. The district was reshaped last year after federal judges ruled Alabama’s congressional lines illegally diluted the voting power of Black residents.

AL-02 Democratic nominee Shomari Figures has reportedly raised one of the largest amounts ever raised in a single quarter by a Democrat congressional candidate in Alabama. Figures and Republican Caroleene Dobson are running to represent Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District.

Congressional hopefuls Shomari Figures and Caroleene Dobson clashed in a sometimes heated debate Thursday. Figures, a Democrat, and Dobson, a Republican, are running to represent Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District.

Congressional hopefuls Shomari Figures and Caroleene Dobson clashed in a Wednesday debate. The two candidates running for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District met in a candidate forum in Montgomery.

As the 2024 Presidential Election draws near, Alabama still has one of the lowest voter turnout percentages in the nation. The ACLU of Alabama is working to increase voter participation in Alabama with Project MOVE (Making Our Voices Echo).

Alabama U.S. Representative Martha Roby won her bid for re-election Tuesday.But a closer look at the vote totals in that race reveals Roby failed to carry…