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Elections were held in Alabama on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Primary elections were held on June 1, 2010 with the run-off on July 13.
Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the U.S. states. With a total of 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of inland waterways, Alabama has among the most of any state.
A primary election is the process by which voters, either the general public or members of a political party, can indicate their preference for a candidate in an upcoming general election or by-election, thus narrowing the field of candidates.
The elections were historic for the Republican Party, in that it captured the majority of both chambers of the Alabama Legislature for the first time in 136 years. The Republican Party also swept all statewide races on the 2010 ballot.
The Alabama Legislature is the legislative branch of the state government of Alabama. It is a bicameral body composed of the House of Representatives and Senate. It is one of the few state legislatures in which members of both chambers serve four-year terms and in which all are elected in the same cycle. The most recent election was on November 6, 2018. The new legislature assumes office immediately following the certification of the election results by the Alabama Secretary of State which occurs within a few days following the election.
The nominees were incumbent Richard Shelby (Republican Party) and attorney William G. Barnes (Democratic Party).
Richard Craig Shelby is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Alabama. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, he is the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, succeeding Thad Cochran. He previously served as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. He is the longest serving U.S. Senator from the State of Alabama, surpassing Senator John Sparkman who held the previous record.
All seven Alabama seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2010.
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they comprise the legislature of the United States.
Incumbent Governor Bob Riley was ineligible for re-election due to term limits.
Robert Renfroe Riley is an American politician and a member of the Republican Party who served as the 52nd Governor of Alabama from 2003 to 2011.
A term limit is a legal restriction that limits the number of terms an officeholder may serve in a particular elected office. When term limits are found in presidential and semi-presidential systems they act as a method of curbing the potential for monopoly, where a leader effectively becomes "president for life". This is intended to protect a democracy from becoming a de facto dictatorship. Sometimes, there is an absolute or lifetime limit on the number of terms an officeholder may serve; sometimes, the restrictions are merely on the number of consecutive terms he or she may serve.
State Office | Party | Incumbent | Status | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Governor | Republican | Bob Riley | term-limited | Republican | Robert J. Bentley | 857,162 | 58% | ||
Democratic | Ron Sparks | 623,492 | 42% |
Incumbent Lieutenant Governor Jim Folsom, Jr. was defeated in his bid for an unprecedented fourth term as Lieutenant Governor.
State Office | Party | Incumbent | Status | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Lt. Governor | Democratic | Jim Folsom, Jr. | defeated | Republican | Kay Ivey | 761,125 | 52% | ||
Democratic | Jim Folsom, Jr. | 715,965 | 48% |
Incumbent Secretary of State Beth Chapman was successful in her bid for a second term.
State Office | Party | Incumbent | Status | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Secretary of State | Republican | Beth Chapman | reelected | Republican | Beth Chapman | 900,619 | 62% | ||
Democratic | Scott Gilliland PVS FTM | 543,902 | 38% |
Incumbent Attorney General Troy King lost his re-election bid in the GOP primary.
State Office | Party | Incumbent | Status | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Attorney General | Republican | Troy King | lost in primary | Republican | Luther J. Strange III PVS FTM | 865,203 | 59% | ||
Democratic | James H. Anderson PVS FTM | 604,092 | 41% |
Incumbent Treasurer Kay Ivey did not seek re-election, instead successfully running for Lieutenant Governor.
State Office | Party | Incumbent | Status | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Treasurer | Republican | Kay Ivey | open seat | Democratic | Charley Grimsley PVS FTM | 579,860 | 40% | ||
Republican | Young Boozer PVS FTM | 872,596 | 60% |
State Office | Party | Incumbent | Status | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Auditor | Republican | Samantha Shaw | running | Democratic | Miranda Karrine Joseph PVS FTM | 529,251 | 36.64 | ||
Republican | Samantha Shaw | 889,831 | 63.36 |
State Office | Party | Incumbent | Status | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Commissioner of Agriculture & Industries | Democratic | Ron Sparks | running for Governor | Democratic | Glen Zorn PVS FTM | 580,428 | 40% | ||
Republican | John McMillan | 859,565 | 60% |
State Office | Party | Incumbent | Status | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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1 | Democratic | Jan Cook | running | Republican | Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh PVS FTM | 816,484 | 56% | ||
Democratic | Jan Cook PVS FTM | 629,716 | 44% | ||||||
2 | Democratic | Susan Parker | running | Republican | Terry Dunn PVS FTM | 792,174 | 55% | ||
Democratic | Susan Parker PVS FTM | 640,315 | 45% |
State Office | Party | Incumbent | Status | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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District 2 | Republican | Betty Peters | Democratic | Betty Letlow PVS FTM | 69,817 | 39% | |||
Republican | Betty Peters PVS FTM | 108,877 | 61% | ||||||
District 4 | Democratic | Ethel Hall | Democratic | Yvette M. Richardson PVS FTM | 95,434 | 64% | |||
Republican | Tom Dooley PVS FTM | 53,890 | 36% | ||||||
District 6 | Republican | David Byers | Democratic | Kimberly Harbin Drake PVS FTM | 42,874 | 22% | |||
Republican | Charles Elliott PVS FTM | 152,047 | 78% | ||||||
District 8 | Democratic | Mary Jane Caylor | Democratic | Mary Ruth Yates PVS FTM | 71,738 | 37% | |||
Republican | Mary Scott Hunter PVS FTM | 122,448 | 63% |
All 35 seats of the Alabama Senate were up for election in 2010.
Prior to the election the Democrats held a 20-14 edge; after the election the GOP captured control 22-12 (one seat is vacant).
All 105 seats in the Alabama House of Representatives were up for election in 2010.
Prior to the election the Democrats had a 60-44 edge; after the election the GOP took control 62-42 (one seat is vacant).
Multiple judicial positions will be up for election in 2010.
State Office | Party | Incumbent | Status | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Place 1 | Republican | Patricia Smith | Democratic | Rhonda Chambers | 535,623 | 37% | |||
Republican | Kelli Wise | 909,039 | 63% | ||||||
Place 2 | Republican | Michael Bolin | Republican | Michael Bolin | 903,767 | 63% | |||
Democratic | Tom Edwards | 535,975 | 37% | ||||||
Place 3 | Republican | Tom Parker | Democratic | Mac Parsons | 589,429 | 41% | |||
Republican | Tom Parker | 846,134 | 59% |
State Office | Party | Incumbent | Status | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Place 1 | Republican | Tommy Bryan | Democratic | Deborah Paseur | 590,952 | 41% | |||
Republican | Tommy Bryan | 840,459 | 59% |
Two measures have been certified for the 2010 statewide election. The propane gas amendment on the Jun 1 ballot failed, and the Blount County sales tax measure will be on the November 2 ballot. All four of the measures on the November 2 ballot failed.
Many elections for county offices were also held on November 2, 2010.
Charles Allen Graddick Sr., was the 42nd Attorney General of Alabama from 1979-1987. He later served as a Judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit Court of the U.S. state of Alabama.
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