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The new map, set to take effect for the 2024 U.S. House elections, significantly alters the 7th and 2nd districts to have slim Black majority or plurality voting-age populations and span across the eastern portion of Alabama's Black Belt, with the 2nd district set to include portions of the cities of Phenix City, Montgomery and Mobile.
English: Map of the congressional districts of Alabama, complemented with county boundaries, as well as major roads, water areas, urban areas, and parks in Alabama, with neighbouring states coloured in gray. These congressional districts are put into effect from 2025, following the 2024 US House elections.
English: Map of the congressional districts of Alabama, complemented with county boundaries, as well as major roads, water areas, urban areas, and parks in Alabama, with neighbouring states coloured in gray. These congressional districts are put into effect from 2023, following the 2022 US House elections, until 2025.
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]
Alabama, through its secretary of state, “is not entitled to a stay to implement a congressional map that openly defies the clear ruling of the district court and this Court,” they wrote in ...
A panel of federal judges approved a new congressional map for Alabama on Thursday after versions drawn by the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature were struck down for diluting the power ...
Alabama's 4th congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in Alabama, which elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives. It encompasses the counties of Franklin , Colbert , Marion , Lamar , Fayette , Walker , Winston , Cullman , Lawrence , Marshall , Etowah , and DeKalb .
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 ...