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The 1934 Alabama Senate election took place on Tuesday, November 6, 1934, to elect 35 representatives to serve four-year terms in the Alabama Senate. Primary elections were held on June 12 with runoff elections on May 1. The result an electoral wipeout, as all 35 candidates elected were members of the Democratic Party. The election used the same districts first drawn by the Alabama Constitution of 1901.
Contents
- Summary
- General election results
- District 29 (Cherokee–DeKalb)
- Elected without opposition
- See also
- References
Only one Democratic nominee, Webb Chestnut of District 29 (Cherokee–DeKalb County), saw opposition in the general election in Republican James H. Jones.
Democrat D. Hardy Riddle of District 8 (Talladega County) was elected President pro tempore on January 8, 1935 at the legislature's opening session. He won seventeen votes from senators to G. R. Swift's fourteen votes. [1]
The election took place concurrently with elections for U.S. House, governor, state house, and numerous other state and local offices.
