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Milligan, 599 U.S. 1 (2023), the Supreme Court of the United States held that the state's current map violates section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. § 10301) and needs to be redrawn with an additional black-majority district. The Alabama Legislature approved another map which also violated the law, but a federal court selected ...
Resigned to become a US judge for the Middle and Northern District of Alabama. Newton N. Clements: December 8, 1880 – March 4, 1881 Democratic: 6th: Elected to finish Lewis's term. Retired. David Clopton: March 4, 1859 – January 21, 1861 Democratic: 3rd: Elected in 1859. Withdrew due to Civil War. James E. Cobb: March 4, 1887 – April 21 ...
Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms. Before becoming a state, the Alabama Territory elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1818 to 1819. These are tables of congressional delegations from Alabama to the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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 ...
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama were held on November 3, 2020, to elect the seven U.S. representatives from the state of Alabama, one from each of the state's seven congressional districts.
District Image Representative Switched party Prior background Birth year Ref Alabama 2: Shomari Figures (D) New seat: Deputy chief of staff to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland: 1985 [10] Alaska at-large: Nick Begich III (R) Yes Defeated Mary Peltola (D) Software businessman Alaska Policy Forum Board 1977 [11] Arizona 3: Yassamin Ansari (D) No
Districts may sometimes retain the same boundaries, while changing their district numbers. The following is a complete list of the 435 current congressional districts for the House of Representatives, and over 200 obsolete districts, and the six current and one obsolete non-voting delegations.
Alabama's 1st congressional district is a United States congressional district in Alabama, which elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives. It includes the entirety of Washington, Mobile, Baldwin and Monroe counties, as well as most of Escambia County. The largest city in the district is Mobile.