Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (April 16 Democratic primary runoff)

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Alabama's 2nd Congressional District
	Democratic primary; Democratic primary runoff; Republican primary; Republican primary runoff; General election
Election details
	Filing deadline: November 10, 2023
	Primary: March 5, 2024; Primary runoff: April 16, 2024; General: November 5, 2024
How to vote
	Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Voting in Alabama
Race ratings
	Cook Political Report: Likely Democratic; DDHQ and The Hill: Lean Democratic; Inside Elections: Likely Democratic; Sabato's Crystal Ball: Likely Democratic
Ballotpedia analysis
	U.S. Senate battlegrounds; U.S. House battlegrounds; Federal and state primary competitiveness; Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2024
See also
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Alabama 2024 elections

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Shomari Figures (D) defeated Anthony Daniels (D) in the Democratic primary runoff in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District on April 16, 2024. Figures received 61.0% of the vote to Daniels' 39.0%. Figures and Daniels were the top two finishers in the 11-candidate primary on March 5, 2024. The two advanced to a runoff because neither received more than 50% of the vote.

The primary runoff took place in the context of court-ordered redistricting. In October 2023, a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama approved a new congressional district map for Alabama after federal courts found two previous redistricting efforts violated the Voting Rights Act. The October 2023 map redrew the 2nd District to have a 48.7% Black voting-age population, which political commentators said would tilt it towards Democrats.^[1] Incumbent Barry Moore (R) ran for re-election in the 1st District, leaving the 2nd District open.

Figures was a former federal official who had worked in the Obama administration, the U.S. Congress, and as counselor to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. Figures said his parents, both of whom served in the state legislature, inspired him to run. Figures said he wanted to improve the economic situation in Alabama. He said his federal government experience would help him deliver results.^[2] Figures said he was the only candidate who lived in the district: "one thing that was clear in this last election is how strong allegiances are within this district...we had several candidates, including state Rep. Daniels, who do not live in the district."^[3]

Daniels was, at the time of the election, the minority leader of the Alabama House of Representatives. Daniels said he had a record of delivering results as minority leader that set him apart. Daniels said his record included working with Republicans in the legislative majority to pass a bill exempting overtime pay from state income tax. Daniels said he was inspired to run by the opportunity to represent rural Alabamians like his grandparents.^[4] Daniels said he was "the only candidate remaining not bought and paid for by outside special interests that do not represent the people of the second congressional district."^[5]

Figures received 43.5% of the vote and Daniels received 22.4% in the March 5 primary.

As of April 16, 2024, The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales, and Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball each rated the general election Likely Democratic.

Alabama conducted redistricting between the 2022 and 2024 elections. As a result, district lines in this state changed. To review how redistricting took place in Alabama and to see maps of the new districts, click here. For a list of all states that drew new district lines between 2022 and 2024, click here.

This page focuses on Alabama's 2nd Congressional District Democratic primary runoff. For more in-depth information on the district's Democratic primary, Republican primary, Republican primary runoff, and the general election, see the following pages:

Candidates and election results

Democratic primary runoff election

Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Alabama District 2

Shomari Figures defeated Anthony Daniels in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Alabama District 2 on April 16, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Shomari Figures	61.1	21,962
	Anthony Daniels	38.9	14,006

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 35,968
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Voting information

See also: Voting in Alabama

Election information in Alabama: April 16, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

In-person: April 1, 2024
By mail: Postmarked by April 1, 2024
Online: April 1, 2024

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

No

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

In-person: April 11, 2024
By mail: Received by April 9, 2024
Online: N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

In-person: April 15, 2024
By mail: Received by April 16, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

N/A

What were the early voting start and end dates?

N/A to N/A

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (CT)

Candidate comparison

Candidate profiles

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Anthony Daniels

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office:

Alabama House of Representatives Minority Leader (Assumed office: 2017)
Alabama House of Representatives District 53 (Assumed office: 2014)

Biography: Daniels graduated from Alabama A&M University with a bachelor's degree in elementary education in 2001 and a master's degree in special education in 2010. Before entering elected office, he worked as an elementary school teacher. As of the 2024 election, Daniels was chief operating officer at his wife's dental practice.

Key Messages

The following key messages were curated by Ballotpedia staff. For more on how we identify key messages, click here.

Daniels said he brought unique experience as the house minority leader and that he had delivered for Alabamians statewide, including through the passage of a bill exempting overtime pay from state income tax: "You tell me what other state a minority leader has been able to move something like that for working people."

Daniels said he had experience working to deliver results in a bipartisan fashion, saying he was the only one of the candidates running who attended a private meeting between Democratic and Republican legislators following the murder of George Floyd that led to the group jointly supporting bills related to small businesses and education.

Daniels said he was shaped by his experiences growing up as the grandson of sharecroppers in rural Alabama and that he was "excited [to run] because a lot of the rural communities in this district have been ignored."

Show sources

Sources: Anthony Daniels campaign website, "Home page," accessed December 22, 2023, AL.com, "House Minority Leader Rep. Anthony Daniels enters District 2 race: ‘Nobody else has this title’," November 9, 2023, AL.com, "Bipartisanship in the Alabama Legislature? It actually happened, quietly and effectively," August 15, 2021; LinkedIn, "Anthony Daniels," accessed December 22, 2023

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Alabama District 2 in 2024.

Shomari Figures

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Biography: Figures obtained his bachelor's degree in criminal justice and history from the University of Alabama in 2006 and his law degree from the University of Alabama School of Law in 2010. After spending one year clerking for a federal judge in the Eastern District of Missouri, Figures worked on President Barack Obama's (D) re-election campaign and later in the White House. Figures worked in the office of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) for three years. Ahead of the 2024 election, Figures worked as deputy chief of staff and counselor to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Key Messages

The following key messages were curated by Ballotpedia staff. For more on how we identify key messages, click here.

Figures said he was running because, "For too long, families across Alabama have had to do more with less." He identified improving access to healthcare, expanding support for teachers, and attracting jobs to the region as priorities.

Figures said he was proud to call Alabama home and said his parents, who both served in the state senate, were an inspiration to him in pursuing elected office.

Figures said he had experience working in all three branches of the federal government and that his understanding of Washington, D.C., would help him deliver results.

Show sources

Sources: Shomari Figures campaign website, "Home page," accessed December 22, 2023, Shomari Figures campaign website, "Meet Shomari," accessed December 22, 2023, AL.com, "Figures, ex-Obama aide and U.S. Dept of Justice official, qualifies for crowded field of district 2 hopefuls," November 9, 2023; Shomari Figures campaign website, "Meet Shomari," accessed December 22, 2023, LinkedIn, "Shomari Figures," accessed December 22, 2023

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Alabama District 2 in 2024.

Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey responses

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No candidate in this race completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign advertisements

This section includes a selection of up to three campaign advertisements per candidate released in this race, as well as links to candidates' YouTube, Vimeo, and/or Facebook video pages. If you are aware of other links that should be included, please email us.

Anthony Daniels

January 2, 2024

November 22, 2023

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Shomari Figures

February 5, 2024

November 10, 2023

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Endorsements

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Anthony Daniels

Election competitiveness

Polls

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We provide results for polls that are included in polling aggregation from FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics, when available. No polls were available for this election. To notify us of polls published in this election, please email us.

Race ratings

See also: Race rating definitions and methods

Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.^[6]
Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Race ratings: Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
Race tracker	Race ratings
	November 5, 2024	October 29, 2024	October 22, 2024	October 15, 2024
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic
Decision Desk HQ and The Hill	Lean Democratic	Lean Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic	Likely Democratic
Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week.

Election spending

Campaign finance

Name

Party

Receipts*

Disbursements**

Cash on hand

Date

Anthony Daniels

Democratic Party

$567,548

$563,961

$3,587

As of December 31, 2024

Shomari Figures

Democratic Party

$2,628,629

$2,605,520

$23,109

As of December 31, 2024

Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee."
** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

Satellite spending

See also: Satellite spending

Satellite spending describes political spending not controlled by candidates or their campaigns; that is, any political expenditures made by groups or individuals that are not directly affiliated with a candidate. This includes spending by political party committees, super PACs, trade associations, and 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups.^[10]^[11]^[12]

If available, this section includes links to online resources tracking satellite spending in this election. To notify us of a resource to add, email us.

By candidate	By election
Anthony Daniels Shomari Figures	OpenSecrets Federal Election Commission

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

District map - A map of the district before and after redistricting ahead of the 2024 election.
Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

Competitiveness
Presidential elections

State party control

Below is the district map used in the 2022 election next to the map in place for the 2024 election. Click on a map below to enlarge it.

2022

2024

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Alabama.

Alabama U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Year	Districts/ offices	Seats	Open seats	Candidates	Possible primaries	Contested Democratic primaries	Contested Republican primaries	% of contested primaries	Incumbents in contested primaries	% of incumbents in contested primaries
2024	7	7	1	36	14	2	6	57.1%	6	85.7%
2022	7	7	1	21	14	3	2	35.7%	1	16.7%
2020	7	7	2	25	14	2	3	35.7%	1	20.0%
2018	7	7	0	23	14	4	3	50.0%	3	42.9%
2016	7	7	0	16	14	0	4	28.6%	4	57.1%
2014	7	7	1	20	14	1	3	28.6%	3	50.0%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Alabama in 2024. Information below was calculated on 1/10/2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Thirty-six candidates filed to run for Alabama's seven U.S. House districts, including 15 Democrats and 21 Republicans. That's 5.14 candidates per district, more than in the previous three election cycles. There were 3.14 candidates per district in 2022, 3.57 candidates per district in 2020, and 3.28 in 2018.

This was the first election to take place under new district lines that a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama approved on Oct. 5, 2023. The 36 candidates who filed to run this year were a decade-high. Twenty-one candidates ran in 2022, 25 in 2020, 23 in 2018, 16 in 2016, 20 in 2014, and 23 in 2012.

Two incumbents—Reps. Jerry Carl (R) and Barry Moore (R)—filed to run against each other in the redrawn 1st congressional district. Carl was the incumbent in the 1st district, and Moore was the incumbent in the 2nd congressional district.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+4. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 4 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Alabama's 2nd the 174th most Democratic district nationally.^[13]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Alabama's 2nd based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
55.7%	43.3%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district.^[14] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
55.2	44.5	R+10.7

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Alabama, 2020

Alabama presidential election results (1900-2020)

16 Democratic wins
13 Republican wins
2 other wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960^[15]	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	SR^[16]	D	D	D	R	AI^[17]	R	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

See also: Party control of Alabama state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Alabama's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Alabama
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	0	1	1
Republican	2	6	8
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	7	9

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Alabama's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in Alabama, May 2024
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Kay Ivey
Lieutenant Governor	Will Ainsworth
Secretary of State	Wes Allen
Attorney General	Steve Marshall

State legislature

Alabama State Senate

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	8
	Republican Party	27
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		35

Alabama House of Representatives

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	28
	Republican Party	75
	Other	0
	Vacancies	2
Total		105

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

Alabama Party Control: 1992-2024
Six years of Democratic trifectas • Fourteen years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Governor	R	D	D	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
Senate	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
House	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

Election context

Ballot access requirements

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Alabama in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Alabama, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Alabama	U.S. House	Ballot-qualified party	N/A	Fixed by party	11/10/2023	Source
Alabama	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	3% of all votes cast for governor in the district in the last election	N/A	3/5/2024	Source

District election history

2022

See also: Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Alabama District 2

Incumbent Barry Moore defeated Phyllis Harvey-Hall and Jonathan Realz in the general election for U.S. House Alabama District 2 on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Barry Moore (R)	69.1	137,460
	Phyllis Harvey-Hall (D)	29.2	58,014
	Jonathan Realz (L)	1.7	3,396
	Other/Write-in votes	0.0	91

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 198,961
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Alabama District 2

Phyllis Harvey-Hall defeated Vimal Patel in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Alabama District 2 on May 24, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Phyllis Harvey-Hall	68.8	16,884
	Vimal Patel	31.2	7,667

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 24,551
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Terell Anderson (D)
Jack Slate (D)

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Barry Moore advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Alabama District 2.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Jeff Coleman (R)

2020

See also: Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020