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Today marks two years since the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments that would change Alabama’s political landscape. It was later, in June of 2023, that the justices told Alabama to redraw its Congressional voting map to better represent African Americans. The court case known as Allen versus Milligan created the new U.S. House District Two in part of Alabama’s Black Belt. The APR news team spent most of this year investigating the issues impacting voters there. Part one of our series “A U.S. House seat, if you can keep it” can be found at apr.org.

Alabama's newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District is sparking a heated election. Democrat Shomari Figures, a former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, is trying to flip the seat. Republican Caroleene Dobson, a real estate attorney and political newcomer, is attempting to keep the seat in GOP hands

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).

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander. Louisiana would join Alabama, where voters will choose a new U.S. House member following a similar SCOTUS ruling.

Alabama voters decided primary runoffs on Tuesday for the state's newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District, setting up a potentially historic November race that could play a part in the battle for control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The November election will include the first vote for Alabama’s newly redrawn District two U.S. House seat. An analysis by the non-profit National Redistricting Foundation says turnout could be big.

Voters in a new Alabama congressional district at the center of an ongoing legal and political dispute will return to the polls Tuesday to select the nominees in a U.S. House contest that could help decide control of the narrowly divided chamber this November.

The two Republicans running for Alabama's redrawn 2nd Congressional District clashed in a debate that aired Monday ahead of next week's runoff. Two Democrats will also be on the ballot in a runoff for that party’s nomination.

Alabama voters shook up the state's congressional delegation Tuesday, throwing out one Republican incumbent and sending four candidates to runoffs in a district redrawn by a federal court to give Black voters greater opportunity to elect a representative of their choice.

The Louisiana Legislature's redrawn congressional map giving the state a second mostly Black district is being challenged by 12 self-described "non-African American" voters in a new lawsuit. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered Alabama to redraw its map, to include a second majority minority district.