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The U.S. state of Alabama is currently divided into seven congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. Since the 1973 redistricting following the 1970 U.S. census, Alabama has had seven congressional districts.
Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms. Before becoming a state, the Alabama Territory elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1818 to 1819. These are tables of congressional delegations from Alabama to the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Alabama. For chronological tables of members of both chambers of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Alabama. The list of names should be complete, but ...
Alabama's 1st congressional district is a United States congressional district in Alabama, which elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives. It includes the entirety of Washington, Mobile, Baldwin and Monroe counties, as well as most of Escambia County. The largest city in the district is Mobile.
A federal court on Thursday approved a new congressional map in Alabama that significantly boosts the Black population of a second district and could represent a pickup opportunity for Democrats ...
Figures’ win will give Alabama a second Black representative in its congressional delegation for the first time in the state’s history. MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Shomari Figures, a former top aide ...
The new congressional map was adopted after the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama’s GOP-drawn districts violated the Voting Rights Act and forced the state to create a second Black opportunity ...
The new congressional map was signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey the same day. [15] In the legislature's map, the Black voting age population in Alabama's 7th congressional district was reduced from 55.6% to 50.6%, while Alabama's 2nd congressional district's Black voting age population was increased to 39.9%. [16]