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In 1922 the first female member was elected to the State House: Hattie Hooker Wilkins of Dallas County, who served a single four-year term. [7] Some 136 years of Democratic control of the State House ended in November 2010. Beginning with the 2010 general election, Republicans swept to a large majority in the state house. They increased this ...
Alabama House of Representatives districts — for the state house of the Alabama Legislature. Pages in category "Alabama House of Representatives districts" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Name Session Start date End date Last election Alabama Constitution of 1819: 1819 October 1819 [1]: December 1819 November 9, 1880 [2]: 1881 November 15, 1898 [3]: February 23, 1899 [3]
Houston County was the last county created in the state, on February 9, 1903. [3] According to 2023 U.S. Census data, the average population of Alabama's 67 counties is 76,246, with Jefferson County as the most populous (662,895), and Greene County (7,341) the least. [7] The average land area is 756 sq mi (1,958 km 2).
Alabama's 5th House of Representatives district is one of 105 districts in the Alabama House of Representatives. Its current representative is Danny Crawford. [1] It was created in 1967 and encompasses parts of Limestone County. As of the 2010 census, the district has a population of 48,495, with 75.8% being of legal voting age. [2]
The State House was opened in 1963 as the Alabama Highway Department Building. It housed the Alabama Department of Transportation, then known as the Alabama State Highway Department, until 1985, when the Alabama Legislature moved into the upper floors while the Alabama State Capitol building was being renovated.
Why new maps were drawn. On Oct. 26, U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones issued a ruling in a voting rights case finding that Georgia’s legislature had gerrymandered its districts to weaken the ...
During the 2020 redistricting cycle, Alabama's congressional and state legislative maps faced legal challenges for alleged violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 27% of Alabama's population is African American, but only 28 of Alabama's house districts, or 23%, were drawn with a black majority.