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In a per curiam opinion on January 24, 2022, [8] the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama blocked as illegal the map passed by the Alabama legislature after a lawsuit was filed by the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, ordering the legislature to draw two districts with either Black voting-age ...
Three federal judges denied this map on January 24, 2022, stating that Alabama, which had an African-American population of 27% as of 2022, needed two congressional districts that were likely to elect African-American representatives, in accordance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
January 3, 2021. January 3, 2023. Alabama's current congressional delegation in the 118th Congress consists of its two senators, both of whom are Republicans, and its seven representatives: 6 Republicans, 1 Democrat. The current dean of the Alabama delegation is Representative Robert Aderholt, having served in the U.S. Congress since 1997.
2022 Alabama House of Representatives Republican primary election, 40th District Party Candidate Votes % Republican: Gayla Blanton 574 7.49% Republican: Julie Borrelli 1,553 20.27% Republican: Katie Exum 1,414 18.46% Republican: Bill Lester 1,317 17.19% Republican: Bill McAdams 1,007 13.15% Republican: Chad Robertson 1,703 22.23% Republican ...
The map, which was used in the 2022 midterm elections, had just one majority Black district out of seven seats in a state where Black residents make up more than a quarter of the population.
The three-judge panel, in striking down Alabama’s map in 2022, said the state should have two districts where Black voters have an opportunity to elect their preferred candidates.
The 2022 elections were the first to be based on the congressional districts which were defined based on the 2020 United States census. [ 3 ] Each state is responsible for the redistricting of districts within their state, while several states have one "at-large" division.
15.4% Gray-collar. Cook PVI. R+17 [3] Alabama's 2nd congressional district is a United States congressional district in Alabama, which elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives. It includes most of the Montgomery metropolitan area, and stretches into the Wiregrass Region in the southeastern portion of the state.