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The new map, set to take effect for the 2024 U.S. House elections, significantly alters the 7th and 2nd districts to have slim Black majority or plurality voting-age populations and span across the eastern portion of Alabama's Black Belt, with the 2nd district set to include portions of the cities of Phenix City, Montgomery and Mobile.
During the 2020 redistricting cycle, Alabama's congressional map faced legal challenges for alleged violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 27% of Alabama's population is African American, but only one of Alabama's seven districts was drawn with a Black majority. A federal panel initially blocked the 2022 map, finding that the state ...
In the United States, all states with multiple congressional districts are required to revise their district maps following each decennial census to account for population changes. In 2024, most states used the same districts created in the redistricting cycle following the 2020 census, which were first used in the 2022 elections. However, maps ...
Check out live Alabama election results from the 2024 midterm elections including Senate and House ... Alabama U.S. House Election Results for all districts, including county-by-county maps and ...
An independent court-appointed expert will now draw Alabama’s congressional map for the 2024 election. Court tosses Alabama congressional map after GOP refuses to draw second Black district Skip ...
Following redistricting as a result of the 2020 United States census, the Republican-controlled Alabama Legislature adopted a new congressional map in the autumn of 2021. The map drew one of Alabama's seven congressional districts with an African-American majority population; a single African-American majority congressional district had been ...
A federal court Tuesday vowed to draw a new Alabama congressional map including a second Black-majority district after the Republican-dominated state refused to obey its previous order to rectify ...
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.