2014 United States Senate election in Alabama

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2014 United States Senate election in Alabama
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  2008 November 4, 2014 2017 (special)  
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Nominee Jeff Sessions
Party Republican
Popular vote795,606
Percentage97.3%

2014 United States Senate election in Alabama results map by county.svg
County results
Sessions:     80–90%     90–100%

U.S. senator before election

Jeff Sessions
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Jeff Sessions
Republican

The 2014 United States Senate election in Alabama took place on November 4, 2014, to elect a member of the United States Senate for Alabama.

Contents

Incumbent Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, who served in the position since 1997, ran for re-election to a fourth term in office. As the Democrats did not field a candidate, he was the only candidate to file before the deadline and was therefore unopposed in the Republican primary election and only faced write-in opposition in the general election. [1]

Sessions was re-elected with 97.25% of the vote with the remaining votes being write-ins. This alongside the concurrent gubernatorial election is the last time Jefferson County voted Republican in a statewide election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Independents

An independent candidate would have been able to challenge Sessions if at least 44,828 signatures had been submitted by June 3, 2014. [3] None did so.

General election

Candidates

On ballot

  • Jeff Sessions (Republican), incumbent U.S. Senator

Write-in

  • Victor Sanchez Williams (Democratic), attorney [4] [5]

Fundraising

CandidateRaisedSpentCash on hand
Jeff Sessions (R)$1,369,672$1,151,690$3,343,748
Victor Sanchez Williams (D)$4,497$4,247$250

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
The Cook Political Report [6] Solid RNovember 3, 2014
Sabato's Crystal Ball [7] Safe RNovember 3, 2014
Rothenberg Political Report [8] Safe RNovember 3, 2014
Real Clear Politics [9] Safe RNovember 3, 2014

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size
Margin
of error
Jeff
Sessions (R)
OtherUndecided
YouGov October 16–23, 2014661± 6.0%63%11%27%
YouGov September 20 – October 1, 2014692± 4.0%61%13%26%
YouGov August 18 – September 2, 2014741± 5.0%54%12%34%
YouGov July 5–24, 20141,036± 5.2%65%10%26%

Results

United States Senate election in Alabama, 2014 [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Jeff Sessions (incumbent) 795,606 97.25% +33.89%
Write-in 22,4842.75%+2.63%
Total votes818,090 100.00% N/A
Republican hold

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Aftermath

Sessions did not complete this term, which ran through January 3, 2021; he resigned on February 9, 2017, to become Attorney General under the Trump administration. This triggered the interim appointment of Luther Strange to fill the vacancy until Democrat Doug Jones won a special election later that year. On November 7, 2019, Sessions announced that he would stand for this US Senate seat again in 2020 when it was due for its regularly-scheduled election, [11] though he was defeated in the runoff primary by football coach Tommy Tuberville, who would go onto win the general election.

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