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Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (April 16 Republican primary runoff)
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| 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 |
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A Republican Party primary runoff took place on April 16, 2024, in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District to determine which Republican candidate would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.
Caroleene Dobson advanced from the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Alabama District 2.
All 435 seats were up for election. At the time of the election, Republicans had a 220 to 212 majority with three vacancies.[1] As of June 2024, 45 members of the U.S. House had announced they were not running for re-election. To read more about the U.S. House elections taking place this year, click here.
In the 2022 election in this district, the Republican candidate won 69.1%-29.2%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have defeated Donald Trump (R) 55.7%-43.3%.[2]
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.
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A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Alabama uses an open primary system, in which registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.[3][4][5]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Alabama's 2nd Congressional District Republican primary runoff. For more in-depth information on the district's Republican primary, Democratic primary, the Democratic primary runoff, and the general election, see the following pages:
- Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Republican primary)
- Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)
- Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (April 16 Democratic primary runoff)
- Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
Candidates and election results
Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Alabama District 2
Caroleene Dobson defeated Dick Brewbaker in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Alabama District 2 on April 16, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Caroleene Dobson | 58.4 | 14,705 |
 | Dick Brewbaker | 41.6 | 10,471 | |
| Total votes: 25,176 | |||
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Candidate profiles
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Alabama
Campaign finance
| Name | Party | Receipts* | Disbursements** | Cash on hand | Date |
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| Dick Brewbaker | Republican Party | $2,129,338 | $2,129,338 | $0 | As of September 30, 2024 |
| Caroleene Dobson | Republican Party | $3,857,871 | $3,854,940 | $2,931 | As of December 31, 2024 |
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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." |
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Ballot access
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.
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| 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 |
See also
- Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Republican primary)
- Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)
- Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (April 16 Democratic primary runoff)
- Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
- United States House elections in Alabama, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primaries)
- United States House elections in Alabama, 2024 (March 5 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2024
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2024
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2024
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2024
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ A majority in the U.S. House when there are no vacancies is 218 seats.
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2020 presidential results by congressional district, for new and old districts," accessed September 15, 2022
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," accessed July 22, 2024
- ↑ Justia, "Alabama Code § 17-13-1," accessed July 22, 2024
- ↑ Justia, "Alabama Code § 17-3-30," accessed July 22, 2024
