2026 results · Alabama

Alabama moved 27 points toward Democrats, and Tommy Tuberville held the governorship by 3.9

Donald Trump carried Alabama by 30.6 points in 2024.

It is the fourth-largest move among the 66 Senate and governor's races between a Democrat and a Republican.

In the House, every one of the seven contested seats moved toward Democrats, the median one 19.0 points.

Who won each county, and how far it moved

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Alabama’s seven House seats

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Before2–5

20262–5

Solid: won. The tick marks a majority (4 of 7).

Democrats lost 1 seat by under 7 points: AL-05 R+6.5.

The seat that decided the majority: AL-06, R+14.9, a district that voted R+33.9 for president in 2024.

Every seat, 2024 to 2026. Open circle: the 2024 presidential margin in the district. Filled: the 2026 House margin. Ordered from the most Democratic result to the most Republican; the rule marks the 4 seats needed for a majority.

← moved toward Democrats, → toward Republicans, in points from the 2024 presidential vote in the district. * still counting: the expected finish.

Close up: the four counties that moved most

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Each county’s move from the 2024 presidential vote in the governor's race; the maps above show the result beside it.

In the governor's race, these moved furthest toward Democrats, among counties with 2,000 or more votes in 2024 and at least half a percent of the state’s.

Franklin County
Moved 32.9 points toward Democrats: R+73.3 for president in 2024; Tommy Tuberville, the Republican, carried it at R+40.4.
8,003 votes counted, 12,077 cast in 2024.
Tuscaloosa County
Moved 29.6 points toward Democrats: R+20.4 for president in 2024; Doug Jones, the Democrat, carried it at D+9.2. The county changed sides.
63,718 votes counted, 84,879 cast in 2024.
Colbert County
Moved 29.3 points toward Democrats: R+46.4 for president in 2024; Tommy Tuberville, the Republican, carried it at R+17.1.
18,505 votes counted, 27,086 cast in 2024.
Limestone County
Moved 28.9 points toward Democrats: R+43.9 for president in 2024; Tommy Tuberville, the Republican, carried it at R+15.0.
39,865 votes counted, 53,096 cast in 2024.

No county compared moved the other way.

Who lives where it moved

Across counties, ten more points of adults with a degree went with a county about 1.6 points more Democratic, on average (r = 0.40, a weak relationship).

By place

Suburban19 counties, 1,247,986 votes27.4 pts → D

Rural48 counties, 436,749 votes23.5 pts → D

By race and ethnicity

Black residents 30% or more26 counties, 696,646 votes25.2 pts → D

White non-Hispanic 85% or more8 counties, 93,023 votes19.7 pts → D

Every other county33 counties, 895,066 votes25.5 pts → D

Each group’s counties added together: its 2026 margin against its 2024 presidential margin. Census Bureau American Community Survey, 2019–2023. Counties, not voters: there are no exit polls here.

Every race in Alabama

Ballot measures

Proposed statewide amendment 165.4% yespassing

Proposed statewide amendment 250.9% yespassing

Proposed statewide amendment 362.6% yespassing

Proposed statewide amendment 458.6% yespassing

Margins are the winner’s or leader’s lead in points of all votes cast. * Still counting: where we expect the count to finish. The move is the 2026 margin against the 2024 presidential margin on the same ground, for races between a Democrat and a Republican.

Ticket splitting

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Across the 67 counties, the Senate race went R+9.5 and the governor's race R+3.9: the Senate margin ran 5.6 points more Republican than the governor's. One county was carried by different parties in the two.

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Points of difference between the Senate margin and the governor's in each county.

Each circle is a county, its area the votes cast. Above the line the Senate Democrat did better than the governor Democrat; below it, worse.

01035carried by different parties

Senate: R+0.9Wess against Moore
Governor: D+2.6Jones against Tuberville
Difference: R+3.5Moore ran ahead
Votes: about 4,867

Most votes firstSen.Gov.Diff.

Margins are the Democrat minus the Republican in points of all votes cast in that race, from the counts the state’s election office has published so far; a county still counting is compared on what it has counted in both. A difference is not a count of split tickets: a voter who skipped one race moves it too.

Alabama’s legislature

Senate35 of 35 seats on the ballotBefore8–27Leaders10–243 seats are led by another party than held them. Republicans keep control.Every district, mapped →House105 of 105 seats on the ballotBefore29–76Leaders31–742 seats are led by another party than held them. Republicans keep control.Every district, mapped →

Counts are Alabama’s official state and county counts, published by the Alabama Secretary of State. Where a race is still being counted, its margin is where we expect the count to finish, marked *. A move from 2024 is the 2026 margin against Kamala Harris’s margin over Donald Trump in the same place. A race is won when we call it or the state certifies it.

Who won each county, and how far it moved

Alabama’s seven House seats

Close up: the four counties that moved most

Franklin County

Tuscaloosa County

Colbert County

Limestone County