List of United States Senate elections in Alabama

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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.

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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

YearWinnerRunner-upOthersRef
CandidatePartyVotes %CandidatePartyVotes %Votes %
1918 John H. Bankhead Democratic 54,880100.00% [1]
1920 (sp) James Thomas Heflin Democratic 160,680Charles P. Lunsford Republican 68,4602,820 [2]
1924 James Thomas Heflin Democratic 154,560Frank H. Lathrop Republican 39,818 [3]
1930 John H. Bankhead II Democratic 150,985 James Thomas Heflin Independent 100,952 [4]
1936 John H. Bankhead II Democratic 239,532H. E. Berkstresser Republican 33,6972,023 [5]
1942 John H. Bankhead II Democratic 69,212100.00% [6]
1946 (sp) John Sparkman Democratic 163,217100.00% [7]
1948 John Sparkman Democratic 185,534Paul G. Parsons Republican 35,341 [8]
1954 John Sparkman Democratic 259,348 Junius Foy Guin Jr. Republican 55,110 [9]
1960 John Sparkman Democratic 389,196Julian Elgin Republican 164,868 [10]
1966 John Sparkman Democratic 482,138 John Grenier Republican 313,0187,452 [11]
1972 John Sparkman Democratic 654,491 Winton M. Blount Republican 347,52349,085 [12]
1978 Howell Heflin Democratic 547,054Jerome B. Couch Prohibition 34,951 [13]
1984 Howell Heflin Democratic 860,535 Albert L. Smith Jr. Republican 498,50812,195 [14]
1990 Howell Heflin Democratic 717,81460.55% William J. Cabaniss Republican 467,19039.41%5590.04% [15]
1996 Jeff Sessions Republican 786,43652.45% Roger Bedford Jr. Democratic 681,65145.46%31,3062.09% [16]
2002 Jeff Sessions Republican 792,56158.58% Susan Parker Democratic 538,87839.83%21,5841.59% [17]
2008 Jeff Sessions Republican 1,305,38363.36% Vivian Davis Figures Democratic 752,39136.52%2,4170.12% [18]
2014 Jeff Sessions Republican 795,60697.25%Scattered Write-in 22,4842.75% [19]
2017 (sp) Doug Jones Democratic 673,896 Roy Moore Republican 651,97222,852 [20]
2020 Tommy Tuberville Republican 1,392,07660.10% Doug Jones Democratic 920,47839.74%3,8910.17% [21]
County results of Class 2 elections since 2002

Class 3

YearWinnerRunner(s)-upOthersRef
CandidatePartyVotes %CandidatePartyVotes %Votes %
1914 (sp) Francis S. White Democratic 102,32699.94%Scattered Write-in 580.06% [22]
1914 Oscar Underwood Democratic 163,33890.20%Alex C. Birch Republican 12,3206.80%4,2632.35% [23]
1920 Oscar Underwood Democratic 154,664L. H. Reynolds Republican 77,3371,984 [2]
1926 Hugo Black Democratic 91,801Edmund H. Dryer Republican 21,712 [24]
1932 Hugo Black Democratic 209,614J. Theodore Johnson Republican 33,425 [25]
1938 (sp) J. Lister Hill Democratic 49,429100.00% [26]
1938 J. Lister Hill Democratic 113,413J. M. Pennington Republican 17,8851 [27]
1944 J. Lister Hill Democratic 202,604John Posey Republican 41,9833,162 [28]
1950 J. Lister Hill Democratic 125,534 John G. Crommelin Independent 38,477 [29]
1956 J. Lister Hill Democratic 330,182100.00% [30]
1962 J. Lister Hill Democratic 201,937 James D. Martin Republican 195,134 [31]
1968 James Allen Democratic 638,774 Perry Hooper Sr. Republican 201,227 [32]
Robert P. Schwenn National Democratic 72,699
1974 James Allen Democratic 501,541Alvin Abercrombie Prohibition 21,749 [33]
1978 (sp) Donald Stewart Democratic 401,852 James D. Martin Republican 316,17011,820 [34]
1980 Jeremiah Denton Republican 650,362 Jim Folsom Jr. Democratic 610,17536,220 [35]
1986 Richard Shelby Democratic 609,36050.28% Jeremiah Denton Republican 602,53749.72%560.00% [36]
1992 Richard Shelby Democratic 1,022,69864.82%Richard Sellers Republican 522,01533.08%33,086 [37]
1998 Richard Shelby Republican 817,97363.24%Clayton Suddith Democratic 474,56836.69%8640.07% [38]
2004 Richard Shelby Republican 1,242,20067.55%Wayne Sowell Democratic 595,01832.35%1,8480.10% [39]
2010 Richard Shelby Republican 968,18165.18%William G. Barnes Democratic 515,61934.71%1,6990.11% [40]
2016 Richard Shelby Republican 1,335,10463.96%Ron Crumpton Democratic 748,70935.87%3,6310.17% [41]
2022 Katie Britt Republican 942,154Will Boyd Democratic 436,74635,338 [42]
County results of Class 3 elections since 2004

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