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The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Alabama. For chronological tables of members of both chambers of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Alabama. The list of names should be complete, but ...
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.
U.S. House of Representatives [a] Arizona House of Representatives U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Corporal: 1979 Delaware: Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) 3rd (93rd overall) No Open seat; replacing Tom Carper (D) [2] U.S. House of Representatives [b] Delaware Secretary of Labor 1962 Indiana: Jim Banks (R) 2nd (92nd overall) No Open seat; replacing Mike ...
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of December 14, 2024, the 118th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
A bipartisan interim committee of 22 representatives (11 from the Alabama House of Representatives, and 11 from the Alabama Senate) is formed to develop a redistricting plan for recommendation to the legislature. The governor has veto power over both the state legislative and congressional plans.
"League of Women Voters of Alabama". (state affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters) Alabama at Ballotpedia; Official campaign websites for 1st district candidates. James Averhart (D) for Congress; Jerry Carl (R) for Congress Archived March 20, 2022, at the Wayback Machine; Official campaign websites for 2nd district candidates
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 ...
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.