List of United States Senate elections in Alabama

United States Senate elections in Alabama occur when voters in the U.S. state of Alabama select an individual to represent the state in the United States Senate in either of the state's two seats allotted by the Constitution. Regularly scheduled general elections occur on Election Day, coinciding with various other federal, statewide, and local races.

Each state is allotted two U.S. Senators elected to staggered six-year terms, which were originally selected by the state legislature. The Senate is divided into three classes to stagger the terms of its members such that one-third of the Senate would be up for re-election every two years. Upon Alabama's admission to the Union in 1819, the state was assigned a Class 2 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in 1819. Since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, U.S. Senators are elected directly by the voters of each state. Special elections may be held to fill mid-term vacancies to elect an individual to serve the remainder of the unexpired term.

The list below contains results from all U.S. Senate elections held in Alabama after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, sorted by year. The next scheduled election for the Class 2 seat is in 2026, while the Class 3 seat will hold its next election in 2028.

List of recent elections

Class 2

Year	Winner					Runner-up					Others		Ref
Year	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%	Ref
1918	John H. Bankhead		Democratic	54,880	100.00%								^[1]
1920 (sp)	James Thomas Heflin		Democratic	160,680	69.27%	Charles P. Lunsford		Republican	68,460	29.51%	2,820	1.22%	^[2]
1924	James Thomas Heflin*		Democratic	154,560	79.52%	Frank H. Lathrop		Republican	39,818	20.48%			^[3]
1930	John H. Bankhead II		Democratic	150,985	59.93%	James Thomas Heflin*		Independent	100,952	40.07%			^[4]
1936	John H. Bankhead II*		Democratic	239,532	87.02%	H. E. Berkstresser		Republican	33,697	12.24%	2,023	0.73%	^[5]
1942	John H. Bankhead II*		Democratic	69,212	100.00%								^[6]
1946 (sp)	John Sparkman		Democratic	163,217	100.00%								^[7]
1948	John Sparkman*		Democratic	185,534	84.00%	Paul G. Parsons		Republican	35,341	16.00%			^[8]
1954	John Sparkman*		Democratic	259,348	82.47%	Junius Foy Guin Jr.		Republican	55,110	17.53%			^[9]
1960	John Sparkman*		Democratic	389,196	70.24%	Julian Elgin		Republican	164,868	29.76%			^[10]
1966	John Sparkman*		Democratic	482,138	60.07%	John Grenier		Republican	313,018	39.00%	7,452	0.93%	^[11]
1972	John Sparkman*		Democratic	654,491	62.27%	Winton M. Blount		Republican	347,523	33.06%	49,085	4.67%	^[12]
1978	Howell Heflin		Democratic	547,054	93.99%	Jerome B. Couch		Prohibition	34,951	6.01%			^[13]
1984	Howell Heflin*		Democratic	860,535	62.76%	Albert L. Smith Jr.		Republican	498,508	36.35%	12,195	0.89%	^[14]
1990	Howell Heflin*		Democratic	717,814	60.55%	William J. Cabaniss		Republican	467,190	39.41%	559	0.04%	^[15]
1996	Jeff Sessions		Republican	786,436	52.45%	Roger Bedford Jr.		Democratic	681,651	45.46%	31,306	2.09%	^[16]
2002	Jeff Sessions*		Republican	792,561	58.58%	Susan Parker		Democratic	538,878	39.83%	21,584	1.59%	^[17]
2008	Jeff Sessions*		Republican	1,305,383	63.36%	Vivian Davis Figures		Democratic	752,391	36.52%	2,417	0.12%	^[18]
2014	Jeff Sessions*		Republican	795,606	97.25%	Scattered		Write-in	22,484	2.75%			^[19]
2017 (sp)	Doug Jones		Democratic	673,896	49.97%	Roy Moore		Republican	651,972	48.34%	22,852	1.69%	^[20]
2020	Tommy Tuberville		Republican	1,392,076	60.10%	Doug Jones*		Democratic	920,478	39.74%	3,891	0.17%	^[21]

County results of Class 2 elections since 2002

2002
Sessions vs. Parker
2008
Sessions vs. Figures
2014
Sessions unopposed
2017 (special)
Jones vs. Moore
2020
Tuberville vs. Jones

Class 3

Year	Winner					Runner(s)-up					Others		Ref
Year	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%	Ref
1914 (sp)	Francis S. White		Democratic	102,326	99.94%	Scattered		Write-in	58	0.06%			^[22]
1914	Oscar Underwood		Democratic	163,338	90.20%	Alex C. Birch		Republican	12,320	6.80%	4,263	2.35%	^[23]
1920	Oscar Underwood*		Democratic	154,664	66.10%	L. H. Reynolds		Republican	77,337	33.05%	1,984	0.85%	^[2]
1926	Hugo Black		Democratic	91,801	80.87%	Edmund H. Dryer		Republican	21,712	19.13%			^[24]
1932	Hugo Black*		Democratic	209,614	86.25%	J. Theodore Johnson		Republican	33,425	13.75%			^[25]
1938 (sp)	J. Lister Hill		Democratic	49,429	100.00%								^[26]
1938	J. Lister Hill		Democratic	113,413	86.38%	J. M. Pennington		Republican	17,885	13.62%	1	0.00%	^[27]
1944	J. Lister Hill*		Democratic	202,604	81.78%	John Posey		Republican	41,983	16.95%	3,162	1.28%	^[28]
1950	J. Lister Hill*		Democratic	125,534	76.54%	John G. Crommelin		Independent	38,477	23.46%			^[29]
1956	J. Lister Hill*		Democratic	330,182	100.00%								^[30]
1962	J. Lister Hill*		Democratic	201,937	50.86%	James D. Martin		Republican	195,134	49.14%			^[31]
1968	James Allen		Democratic	638,774	69.99%	Perry Hooper Sr.		Republican	201,227	22.05%			^[32]
1968	James Allen		Democratic	638,774	69.99%	Robert P. Schwenn		National Democratic	72,699	7.97%			^[32]
1974	James Allen*		Democratic	501,541	95.84%	Alvin Abercrombie		Prohibition	21,749	4.16%			^[33]
1978 (sp)	Donald Stewart		Democratic	401,852	55.06%	James D. Martin		Republican	316,170	43.32%	11,820	1.62%	^[34]
1980	Jeremiah Denton		Republican	650,362	50.15%	Jim Folsom Jr.		Democratic	610,175	47.05%	36,220	2.79%	^[35]
1986	Richard Shelby		Democratic	609,360	50.28%	Jeremiah Denton*		Republican	602,537	49.72%	56	0.00%	^[36]
1992	Richard Shelby*		Democratic	1,022,698	64.82%	Richard Sellers		Republican	522,015	33.08%	33,086	2.10%	^[37]
1998	Richard Shelby*		Republican	817,973	63.24%	Clayton Suddith		Democratic	474,568	36.69%	864	0.07%	^[38]
2004	Richard Shelby*		Republican	1,242,200	67.55%	Wayne Sowell		Democratic	595,018	32.35%	1,848	0.10%	^[39]
2010	Richard Shelby*		Republican	968,181	65.18%	William G. Barnes		Democratic	515,619	34.71%	1,699	0.11%	^[40]
2016	Richard Shelby*		Republican	1,335,104	63.96%	Ron Crumpton		Democratic	748,709	35.87%	3,631	0.17%	^[41]
2022	Katie Britt		Republican	942,154	66.62%	Will Boyd		Democratic	436,746	30.88%	35,338	2.50%	^[42]

County results of Class 3 elections since 2004

2004
Shelby vs. Sowell
2010
Shelby vs. Barnes
2016
Shelby vs. Crumpton
2022
Britt vs. Boyd

References

External links

[1] "AL Senate Race - Nov 03, 1918". Our Campaigns.

[:20-2] "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 2, 1920" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[3] "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 4, 1924" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[4] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1930" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[5] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 3, 1936" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[6] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 3, 1942" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[7] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 5, 1946" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[8] "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 2, 1948" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[9] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 1954" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[10] "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 8, 1960" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[11] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 8, 1966" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[12] "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7, 1972" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[13] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1978" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[14] "Federal Elections 1984" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[15] "Federal Elections 1990" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[16] "Federal Elections 1996" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[17] "Federal Elections 2002" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[18] "Federal Elections 2008" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[19] "Federal Elections 2014" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[20] "Canvass of Results - Special General Election - December 12, 2017" (PDF). Secretary of State of Alabama.

[21] "Federal Elections 2020" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[22] "AL Senate Special Race - May 11, 1914". Our Campaigns.

[23] "AL Senate Race - Nov 08, 1914". Our Campaigns.

[24] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 1926" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[25] "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 8, 1932" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[26] "AL Senate - Special Election Race - Apr 26, 1938". Our Campaigns.

[27] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 8, 1938" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[28] "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7, 1944" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[29] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1950" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[30] "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 6, 1956" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[31] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 1962" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[32] "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1968" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[33] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1974" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[34] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1978" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[35] "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1980" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

[36] "Federal Elections 1986" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[37] "Federal Elections 1992" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[38] "Federal Elections 1998" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[39] "Federal Elections 2004" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[40] "Federal Elections 2010" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[41] "Federal Elections 2016" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.

[42] "Canvass of Results - General Election - November 8, 2022" (PDF). Secretary of State of Alabama.

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