Alabama Keeps 5–2 GOP Edge in U.S. House Races

TL;DR: Republicans won five of Alabama’s seven U.S. House seats, while Democrats Shomari Figures and Terri Sewell held theirs. Jerry Carl returns to Congress. The State’s vote totals remain unofficial.

Alabama voters kept the State’s U.S. House split at five Republicans and two Democrats Tuesday, sending six incumbents back to Washington and returning former Rep. Jerry Carl to Congress.

Republicans Carl, Mike Rogers, Robert Aderholt, Dale Strong and Gary Palmer won their races. Democrats Shomari Figures and Terri Sewell also secured new terms.

The Alabama Secretary of State’s unofficial returns put every winner above 53% of the vote. Those totals are subject to change before certification.

Strong faced the closest contest. Figures had the next-smallest margin. Aderholt posted the widest lead of the seven winners.

District 1: Jerry Carl returns

Republican Jerry Carl defeated Democrat Clyde Jones with 137,016 votes, or 59.03%. Jones received 94,925 votes, or 40.89%. Another 190 votes went to write-in candidates.

Carl’s margin was 42,091 votes.

The win brings Carl back to the House after he lost the 2024 Republican primary to Barry Moore. Carl previously held the seat from 2021 to 2025.

District 2: Figures holds his seat

Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures defeated Republican challenger Rhett Marques, securing a second term.

Figures received 124,422 votes, or 53.67%, to Marques’ 107,049 votes, or 46.18%. Write-in candidates drew 338 votes.

Figures led by 17,373 votes, a gap of 7.49 percentage points.

District 3: Rogers wins another term

Republican Rep. Mike Rogers defeated Democrat Lee McInnis with 141,274 votes, or 63.80%.

McInnis received 79,860 votes, or 36.06%. Write-in votes totaled 306.

Rogers’ margin stood at 61,414 votes.

District 4: Aderholt posts widest margin

Republican Rep. Robert Aderholt won with 160,008 votes, or 74.80%, defeating Democrat Amanda N. Pusczek.

Pusczek received 53,633 votes, or 25.07%. Another 271 voters chose write-in candidates.

Aderholt’s 106,375-vote lead was the largest raw-vote margin among Alabama’s seven House races. His lead of 49.73 percentage points was also the widest.

District 5: Strong wins closest contest

Republican Rep. Dale Strong held off Democrat Andrew Sneed in the State’s tightest House race.

Strong received 142,080 votes, or 53.19%. Sneed drew 124,763 votes, or 46.70%. Write-in candidates received 293 votes.

Strong led by 17,317 votes, or 6.49 percentage points.

The district also recorded the most votes cast in any of the seven House contests shown in the state’s returns: 267,136.

District 6: Palmer retains seat

Republican Rep. Gary Palmer defeated Democrat Maurice Mercer with 149,921 votes, or 57.41%.

Mercer received 110,957 votes, or 42.49%. Write-in candidates accounted for 257 votes.

Palmer’s lead stood at 38,964 votes, a margin of 14.92 percentage points.

District 7: Sewell wins decisively

Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell defeated Republican Ammie Akin with 174,823 votes, or 69.35%.

Akin received 77,085 votes, or 30.58%. Another 173 votes went to write-in candidates.

Sewell led by 97,738 votes. She received the most votes of any winning House candidate in the State.