Political Party strength in Alabama
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The following table displays, by color, the parties of elected officials in the U.S. state of Alabama from 1817 to the current year. As such, it may indicate the political party strength at any given time. The officers listed include:
- Governor
- Lieutenant governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney general
- Comptroller of Public Accounts/State Auditor[note 1]
- State treasurer
- Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: American (A), Democratic (D), Democratic-Republican (DR), Greenback (G), Independent (I), Jacksonian (J), Military (M), no party (N), Populist (P), Republican (R), Southern Democratic (SD), Unionist (U), Whig (W), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||||
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| Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | Agriculture Commissioner | State Senate | State House | U.S. Sen. (Class II) | U.S. Sen. (Class III) | U.S. House | ||
| 1817 | William Wyatt Bibb (N)[note 2] | no such office | no such office | no such office | Jack Ross[note 3] | no such office | no such bodies | no such offices | John Crowell (DR)[note 4] | no electoral votes | |||
| 1818 | Henry Hitchcock[note 5] | unknown | D majority | ||||||||||
| 1819 | William Wyatt Bibb (DR)[note 6] | Thomas A. Rodgers | Henry Hitchcock | Samuel Pickens | Jack Ross | W majority | William R. King (D) | John Williams Walker (D) | John Crowell (DR) | ||||
| 1820 | D majority | James Monroe and Daniel Tompkins (DR) 
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| Thomas Bibb (DR)[note 7] | |||||||||||||
| 1821 | James J. Pleasants (W) | W majority | Gabriel Moore (DR) | ||||||||||
| 1822 | Israel Pickens (DR) | John C. Perry | William Kelly (D) | ||||||||||
| 1823 | Thomas White | D majority | 3J | ||||||||||
| 1824 | James I. Thornton[note 8] | Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (DR) 
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| 1825 | Constantine Perkins | Henry H. Chambers (D) | |||||||||||
| 1826 | John Murphy (J) | Israel Pickens (D) | |||||||||||
| 1827 | John McKinley (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (D)
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| 1829 | George Whitfield Crabb (W) | Hardin Perkins | 2D, 1J | ||||||||||
| 1830 | Gabriel Moore (J)[note 9] | ||||||||||||
| 1831 | Samuel B. Moore (D)[note 7] | Gabriel Moore (D) | |||||||||||
| 1832 | John Gayle (D) | Peter Martin[note 10] | Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren (D)
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| 1833 | 3J, 2D | ||||||||||||
| 1834 | Edmund A. Webster | William Hawn | |||||||||||
| 1835 | unknown | 3D, 2W | |||||||||||
| 1836 | Clement Comer Clay (D)[note 9] | Thomas B. Tunstall | Alexander Meek[note 11] | Jefferson C. Van Dyke | Martin Van Buren and Richard Mentor Johnson (D)
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| 1837 | John D. Phelan | 18W, 12D, 3? | 46W, 44D, 10? | John McKinley (D) | |||||||||
| Hugh McVay (D)[note 7] | Clement Comer Clay (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1838 | Arthur P. Bagby (D) | Lincoln Clarke | unknown | 45D, 33W, 22? | |||||||||
| 1839 | Matthew W. Lindsay | 19D, 9W, 5? | 66D, 31W, 3? | ||||||||||
| 1840 | William Garrett (D) | Samuel Frierson | 23D, 10W | 67D, 33W | Martin Van Buren and Richard Mentor Johnson (D)
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| 1841 | 20D, 13W | 54D, 46W | 5D | ||||||||||
| 1842 | Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D) | 52D, 48W | Arthur P. Bagby (D) | ||||||||||
| 1843 | Thomas D. Clarke | 21D, 12W | 67D, 33W | 6D, 1W | |||||||||
| 1844 | 19D, 14W | 62D, 38W | Dixon H. Lewis (D) | James K. Polk and George M. Dallas (D)
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| 1845 | D Majority | D Majority | |||||||||||
| 1846 | Joshua L. Martin (I)[note 12] | William Graham | 20D, 13W | 61D, 37W, 2? | |||||||||
| 1847 | William H. Martin | 5D, 2W | |||||||||||
| 1848 | Reuben Chapman (D) | Marion A. Baldwin | Joel Riggs | 17D, 16W | 65D, 35W | Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D) | William R. King (D) | Lewis Cass and William O. Butler (D)
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| 1849 | Jeremiah Clemens (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1850 | Henry W. Collier (D) | 17W, 16D | 57D, 43W | ||||||||||
| 1851 | 4D, 2W, 1A | ||||||||||||
| 1852 | Vincent M. Benham (D) | 22U, 11 Southern Rights | 62U, 38 Southern Rights | Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D)
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| 1853 | Clement Claiborne Clay (D) | Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D) | 5D, 1W, 1A | ||||||||||
| 1854 | John A. Winston (D) | 20D, 13W | 59D, 41W | ||||||||||
| 1855 | William J. Greene | 5D, 2A | |||||||||||
| 1856 | James H. Weaver | 20D, 13A | 61D, 39A | James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge (D)
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| 1857 | 7D | ||||||||||||
| 1858 | Andrew B. Moore (D) | 27D, 6A | 84D, 16A | ||||||||||
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| 1860 | Patrick Henry Brittan (D) | Duncan Graham (D) | 27D, 6 Opp. | 85D, 15 Opp. | John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane (SD)
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| 1861 | vacant | vacant | |||||||||||
| 1862 | John Gill Shorter (D) | American Civil War | American Civil War | ||||||||||
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| 1864 | Thomas H. Watts (D)[note 13] | no electoral votes | |||||||||||
| 1865 | Albert S. Elmore | John W. A. Sanford | Malcolm A. Chisholm | Lyd Saxon (D) | |||||||||
| Lewis E. Parsons (D)[note 14] | |||||||||||||
| 1866 | Robert M. Patton (D)[note 15] | David L. Dalton (D) | 33N | 100N | |||||||||
| 1867 | Micah Taul (D) | 6R | |||||||||||
| Wager Swayne (M)[note 16] | |||||||||||||
| 1868 | Charles A. Miller (R) | Joshua Morse (R) | Arthur Bingham (R) | Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R)
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| William Hugh Smith (R)[note 17] | Willard Warner (R) | George E. Spencer (R) | |||||||||||
| Andrew J. Applegate (R) | |||||||||||||
| 1869 | Robert M. Reynolds (R) | 32R, 1D | 97R, 3D | 4R, 2D | |||||||||
| 1870 | Jabez J. Parker | John W. A. Sanford | James Grant | ||||||||||
| 1871 | Robert B. Lindsay (D)[note 17] | Edward H. Moren (D) | 65D, 35R | George Goldthwaite (D) | 3R, 3D | ||||||||
| 1872 | Patrick Ragland (R) | Benjamin Gardner (R) | Robert T. Smith (R) | Arthur Bingham (R) | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R)
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| 1873 | David P. Lewis (R) | Alexander McKinstry (R) | Neander H. Rice | 17R, 16D[note 18] | 51R, 49D[note 19] | 6R, 2D | |||||||
| 1874 | Rufus K. Boyd (D) | John W. A. Sanford | Daniel Crawford | ||||||||||
| 1875 | George S. Houston (D) | Robert F. Ligon (D) | 20D, 13R | 60D, 40R | 6D, 2R | ||||||||
| 1876 | Willis Brewer (D) | Samuel Tilden and Thomas Hendricks (D)
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| 1877 | [note 20] | 33D | 80D, 20R | John Tyler Morgan (D) | 8D | ||||||||
| 1878 | William W. Screws (D) | Henry Tompkins (D) | Isaac Vincent (D) | ||||||||||
| 1879 | Rufus W. Cobb (D) | 31D, 2R | 91D, 4ID, 3R, 2G | George S. Houston (D) | 7D, 1G | ||||||||
| 1880 | Jesse Malcolm Carmichael | Luke Pryor (D) | Winfield Hancock and William English (D)
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| 1881 | 33D | 94D, 4ID, 1R, 1G | James L. Pugh (D) | 8D | |||||||||
| 1882 | Ellis Phelan (D) | 7D, 1G | |||||||||||
| 1883 | Edward A. O'Neal (D) | Frederick Smith | Edward C. Betts (D) | 31D, 2R | 77D, 17I, 5R, 1G | 8D | |||||||
| 1884 | Thomas McClellan (D) | Malcolm C. Burke | 7D, 1R | Grover Cleveland and Thomas Hendricks (D)
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| 1885 | Charles C. Langdon (D)[note 21] | 30D, 3R | 93D, 7R | 8D | |||||||||
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| 1887 | Thomas Seay (D) | Ruben F. Kolb (D) | 32D, 1R | 83D, 17R | |||||||||
| 1888 | Cyrus D. Hogue | John Cobbs (D) | Grover Cleveland and Allen Thurman (D)
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| 1889 | William L. Martin (D) | 92D, 8R | |||||||||||
| 1890 | Joseph D. Barron (D) | 7D, 1R | |||||||||||
| 1891 | Thomas G. Jones (D) | Hector D. Lane (D) | 33D | 97D, 3R | 8D | ||||||||
| 1892 | John Purifoy (D)[note 21] | J. Craig Smith (D) | Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D)
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| 1893 | 26D, 7P | 61D, 38P. 1R | 9D | ||||||||||
| 1894 | James K. Jackson (D) | William C. Fitts (D) | |||||||||||
| 1895 | William C. Oates (D) | 24D, 8P, 1R | 65D, 34P. 1R | 8D, 1P | |||||||||
| 1896 | Walter S. White | George Ellis (D) | Issac F. Culver (D) | 5D, 2P, 2R | William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall (D)
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| 1897 | Joseph F. Johnston (D) | 22D, 9P, 2R | 74D, 23P. 3R | Edmund Pettus (D) | 8D, 1P | ||||||||
| 1898 | Robert P. McDavid (D) | Charles G. Brown | 7D, 1P, 1R | ||||||||||
| 1899 | 28D, 5P | 89D, 10P. 1R | 9D | ||||||||||
| 1900 | Thomas L. Sowell (D) | J. Craig Smith (D) | Robert R. Poole (D) | William Jennings Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D)
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| William D. Jelks (D)[note 22] | 8D, 1R | ||||||||||||
| 1901 | William J. Samford (D)[note 6] | 32D, 1P | 92D, 6P. 2R | 9D | |||||||||
| William D. Jelks (D)[note 23][note 24] | |||||||||||||
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| 1903 | Russell McWhortor Cunningham (D)[note 25] | James Thomas Heflin (D) | Massey Wilson (D) | 35D | 103D, 2R | ||||||||
| 1904 | Edmund R. McDavid (D)[note 11] | Alton Parker and Henry Davis (D)
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| 1905 | Jesse Malcolm Carmichael | ||||||||||||
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| 1907 | B. B. Comer (D) | Henry B. Gray (D) | Frank N. Julian (D) | Alexander M. Garber (D) | William W. Brandon (D) | Walter D. Seed, Sr. (D) | Joseph A. Wilkinson (D) | 34D, 1R | 104D, 2R | John H. Bankhead (D) | Joseph F. Johnston (D) | ||
| 1908 | William Jennings Bryan and John Kern (D)
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| 1910 | Cyrus B. Brown (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1911 | Emmet O'Neal (D) | Walter D. Seed, Sr. (D) | Robert Brickell (D) | Charles Brooks Smith (D) | John Purifoy (D) | Ruben F. Kolb (D) | 103D, 3R | ||||||
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D)
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| 1913 | 10D | ||||||||||||
| 1914 | Francis S. White (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1915 | Charles Henderson (D) | Thomas Kilby (D) | John Purifoy (D) | William Logan Martin (D) | Miles C. Allgood (D) | William Lancaster (D) | James A. Wade (D) | 104D, 2R | Oscar Underwood (D) | ||||
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| 1918 | F. Lloyd Tate | ||||||||||||
| Emmet S. Thigpen | |||||||||||||
| 1919 | Thomas Kilby (D) | Nathan Lee Miller (D) | William Peyton Cobb (D) | J. Q. Smith (D) | Henry F. Lee (D) | Robert Bradley | Miles C. Allgood (D) | 100D, 5R, 1? | |||||
| 1920 | B. B. Comer (D) | James Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
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| 1921 | Harwell G. Davis (D) | James Thomas Heflin (D) | |||||||||||
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| 1923 | William W. Brandon (D) | Charles S. McDowell (D)[note 26] | Sidney H. Blan (D) | William Barnett Allgood (D) | George Ellis (D) | James Monroe Moore (D) | 35D | 105D, 1R | |||||
| 1924 | John Davis and Charles Bryan (D)
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| 1927 | Bibb Graves (D) | William C. Davis (D) | John M. Brandon (D) | Charlie C. McCall (D) | Sidney H. Blan (D) | William Barnett Allgood (D) | Samuel Dunwoody (D) | 104D, 2R | Hugo Black (D) | ||||
| 1928 | Al Smith and Joseph Robinson (D)
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| 1931 | Benjamin M. Miller (D) | Hugh D. Merrill (D) | Pete Bryant Jarman, Jr. (D) | Thomas E. Knight, Jr. (D) | John M. Brandon (D) | Sidney H. Blan (D) | Seth Paddock Storrs (D) | 103D, 3R | John H. Bankhead II (D) | ||||
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D)
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| 1933 | 9D | ||||||||||||
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| 1935 | Bibb Graves (D) | Thomas E. Knight | David Howell Turner (D) | Albert A. Carmichael (D) | Charles E. McCall (D) | John M. Brandon (D) | Robert James Goode (D) | 105D, 1R | |||||
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| 1937 | Dixie Bibb Graves (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1938 | J. Lister Hill (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1939 | Frank M. Dixon (D) | Albert A. Carmichael (D) | John M. Brandon (D) | Thomas S. Lawson (D) | David Howell Turner (D) | Charles E. McCall (D)[note 6] | Haygood Paterson (D) | ||||||
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Wallace (D)
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| 1941 | Walter Lusk[note 21] | ||||||||||||
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| 1943 | Chauncey Sparks (D) | Leven H. Ellis (D) | David Howell Turner (D) | William N. McQueen (D) | John M. Brandon (D) | Joseph N. Poole | |||||||
| 1944 | Sibyl Pool (D)[note 21] | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D)
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| 1946 | George R. Swift (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1947 | Jim Folsom (D) | James C. Inzer (D) | Albert A. Carmichael (D) | Daniel H. Thomas, Sr. | John M. Brandon (D) | Haygood Paterson (D) | John Sparkman (D) | ||||||
| 1948 | Strom Thurmond and Fielding Wright (D)
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| 1951 | Gordon Persons (D) | James Allen (D) | Agnes Baggett (D) | S. I. Garrett (D) | John M. Brandon (D) | Sibyl Pool (D) | Frank M. Stewart (D) | ||||||
| 1952 | Adlai Stevenson and John Sparkman (D)
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| 1955 | Jim Folsom (D) | William G. Hardwick (D) | Mary Texas Hurt Garner (D) | John Malcolm Patterson (D) | Agnes Baggett (D) | John M. Brandon (D) | A. W. Todd (D) | ||||||
| 1956 | Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver (D)
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| 1959 | John Malcolm Patterson (D) | Albert Boutwell (D) | Bettye Frink (D) | MacDonald Gallion (D) | Mary Texas Hurt Garner (D) | Agnes Baggett (D) | Robert Bamberg (D) | 106D | |||||
| 1960 | 6 Harry F. Byrd and Strom Thurmond (D) , 5 John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
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| 1963 | George Wallace (D) | James Allen (D) | Agnes Baggett (D) | Richmond M. Flowers (D) | Bettye Frink (D) | Mary Texas Hurt Garner (D) | A. W. Todd (D) | 104D, 2R | 8D | ||||
| 1964 | Barry Goldwater and William Miller (R)
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| 1965 | 5R, 3D | ||||||||||||
| 1966 | |||||||||||||
| 1967 | Lurleen Wallace (D)[note 6] | Albert Brewer (D)[note 27] | Mabel Sanders Amos (D) | MacDonald Gallion (D) | Melba Till Allen (D) | Agnes Baggett (D) | Richard Beard (D) | 34D, 1R | 106D | 5D, 3R | |||
| 1968 | George Wallace and Curtis LeMay (AI)
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| Albert Brewer (D)[note 28] | vacant | ||||||||||||
| 1969 | James Allen (D) | ||||||||||||
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| 1971 | George Wallace (D) | Jere Beasley (D)[note 29] | Bill Baxley (D) | 35D | 104D, 2R | ||||||||
| 1972 | Marion Gilmer (D)[note 6] | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R)
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| 1973 | 4D, 3R | ||||||||||||
| 1974 | McMillan Lane (D)[note 21] | ||||||||||||
| 1975 | Agnes Baggett (D) | Bettye Frink (D) | Melba Till Allen (D) | 105D | |||||||||
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale (D)
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| 1977 | |||||||||||||
| 1978 | Annie Laurie Gunter (D)[note 21] | Maryon Pittman Allen (D) | |||||||||||
| 1979 | Fob James (D) | George McMillan (D) | Don Siegelman (D) | Charles Graddick (D) | 101D, 4R | Howell Heflin (D) | Donald W. Stewart (D) | ||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R)
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| 1981 | Jeremiah Denton (R) | ||||||||||||
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| 1983 | George Wallace (D) | Bill Baxley (D) | Jan Cook (D) | Albert McDonald (D) | 32D, 3R | 97D, 8R | 5D, 2R | ||||||
| 1984 | 29D, 3R, 3I | 87D, 18R | |||||||||||
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| 1986 | |||||||||||||
| 1987 | H. Guy Hunt (R)[note 30] | Jim Folsom, Jr. (D) | Glen Browder (D) | Don Siegelman (D) | George Wallace, Jr. (D) | 30D, 5R | 89D, 16R | Richard Shelby (D) | |||||
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R)
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| 1989 | Fred Crawford (R)[note 11] | 27D, 8R[note 31] | 82D, 23R | ||||||||||
| 1990 | Perry A. Hand (R)[note 11] | ||||||||||||
| 1991 | Billy Joe Camp (D) | Jimmy Evans (D) | Terry Ellis (D) | A. W. Todd (D) | 28D, 7R | ||||||||
| 1992 | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R)
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| 1993 | 27D, 8R | 4D, 3R | |||||||||||
| Jim Folsom, Jr. (D)[note 28] | vacant | James R. Bennett (D)[note 21] | |||||||||||
| 1994 | |||||||||||||
| 1995 | Fob James (R) | Don Siegelman (D) | Jeff Sessions (R)[note 32] | Pat Duncan (R) | Lucy Baxley (D) | Jack Thompson (R) | 23D, 12R | 73D, 32R | Richard Shelby (R)[note 33] | ||||
| 1996 | Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (R)
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| 1997 | William H. Pryor, Jr. (R)[note 21] | 71D, 34R[note 34] | Jeff Sessions (R)[note 35] | 5R, 2D | |||||||||
| 1998 | 21D, 14R[note 36] | 68D, 37R[note 37] | |||||||||||
| 1999 | Don Siegelman (D) | Steve Windom (R) | James R. Bennett (R)[note 38] | Susan Parker (D) | Charles Bishop (D) | 23D, 12R | 69D, 36R | ||||||
| 2000 | 24D, 11R[note 39] | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R)
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| 2001 | 68D, 37R[note 40] | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | 67D, 38R[note 41] | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | Bob Riley (R) | Lucy Baxley (D) | Nancy Worley (D) | Beth Chapman (R) | Kay Ivey (R) | Ron Sparks (D) | 25D, 10R | 63D, 42R[note 42] | |||||
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| Troy King (R)[note 21] | |||||||||||||
| 2005 | |||||||||||||
| 2006 | 62D, 43R[note 43] | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | Jim Folsom, Jr. (D) | Beth Chapman (R) | Samantha Shaw (R) | 23D, 12R | |||||||||
| 2008 | 22D, 13R[note 44] | John McCain and Sarah Palin (R)
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| 2009 | 21D, 13R, 1I[note 45] | 4R, 3D | |||||||||||
| 2010 | 20D, 14R, 1I[note 46] | 60D, 45R[note 47] | 5R, 2D[note 48] | ||||||||||
| 2011 | Robert J. Bentley (R)[note 49] | Kay Ivey (R) | Luther Strange (R)[note 32] | Young Boozer (R) | John McMillan (R) | 22R, 12D, 1I | 66R, 39D[note 50] | 6R, 1D | |||||
| 2012 | Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (R)
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| 2013 | 23R, 11D, 1I[note 51] | 66R, 38D, 1I[note 52] | |||||||||||
| James R. Bennett (R) | |||||||||||||
| 2014 | 67R, 37D, 1I[note 53] | ||||||||||||
| 2015 | John Merrill (R) | Jim Zeigler (R) | 26R, 8D, 1I | 72R, 33D | |||||||||
| 2016 | Donald Trump and Mike Pence (R)
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| 2017 | Steve Marshall (R)[note 11] | Luther Strange (R)[note 11] | |||||||||||
| Kay Ivey (R)[note 28] | vacant | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | Doug Jones (D)[note 54] | ||||||||||||
| 2019 | Will Ainsworth (R) | John McMillan (R) | Rick Pate (R) | 27R, 8D | 77R, 28D | ||||||||
| 2020 | [to be determined] | ||||||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lieutenant governor | Secretary of State | Attorney general | Auditor | Treasurer | Agriculture Commissioner | State Senate | State House | U.S. Sen. (Class II) | U.S. Sen. (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
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Notes[edit]
- ↑ With the adoption of the state Constitution of 1819, the auditor became the comptroller of public accounts elected annually by a joint vote of both houses of the General Assembly. The Constitution of 1868 changed the title of the office to auditor and established a process by which the officeholder would be chosen by the electors of the state every four years.
- ↑ Governor of Alabama Territory appointed by President James Monroe.
- ↑ Treasurer of Alabama Territory.
- ↑ Delegate from Alabama Territory.
- ↑ Secretary of Alabama Territory.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Died in office.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 As president of the state senate, filled unexpired term.
- ↑ Resigned.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.
- ↑ Resigned following appointment to the Circuit Court bench.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 Appointed to fill vacancy.
- ↑ Democrat who opposed party leaders and ran as an independent.
- ↑ Arrested by Union forces soon after the American Civil War ended in May 1865; was released a few weeks later.
- ↑ Provisional governor appointed by the Union occupation; between Watts's arrest and Parsons' appointment, Alabama had no governor, instead being under direct rule of General George Henry Thomas.
- ↑ The United States Congress stripped Patton of most of his authority in March 1867, after which time the state was effectively under the control of Major General Wager Swayne.
- ↑ Military governor appointed during Reconstruction; though Patton was still officially governor, he was mostly a figurehead. The term start date given is the date of the first Reconstruction Act, which placed Alabama into the Third Military District; all references only say "March 1867."
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Robert Lindsay was sworn into office on November 26, 1870, but William H. Smith refused to leave his seat for two weeks, claiming Lindsay was fraudulently elected, finally leaving office on December 8, 1870, when a court so ordered.
- ↑ Initial returns showed a 19-14 Democratic majority, but was overturned in a series of contests through March 1873.
- ↑ Initial returns showed a 54-46 Democratic majority, but was overturned in a series of contests through March 1873.
- ↑ Position of lieutenant governor was eliminated in 1875, effective at the end of the then-present term in November 1876, and was reestablished upon the adoption of the Alabama Constitution in 1901.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 21.7 21.8 Initially appointed to fill vacancy, later was elected in his own right.
- ↑ Acting governor for 26 days. Jelks was president of the state Senate when William J. Samford was out of state at the start of his term seeking medical treatment.
- ↑ As president of the state Senate, filled unexpired term and was subsequently elected in his or her own right.
- ↑ Gubernatorial terms were increased from two to four years during Jelks' governorship; his first term was filling out Samford's two-year term, and he was elected in 1902 for a four-year term.
- ↑ Acting governor from April 25, 1904 until March 5, 1905 while Jelks was out of state for medical treatment.
- ↑ Acting governor for two days—July 10 and 11, 1924—while Brandon was out of state for 21 days as a delegate to the 1924 Democratic National Convention.
- ↑ Wallace left the state for 20 days for medical treatment; as lieutenant governor, Brewer became acting governor on July 25, 1967. Wallace returned to the state later that day.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term.
- ↑ Acting governor for 32 days, from June 5 until July 7, 1972. Beasley was lieutenant governor when Wallace spent 52 days in Maryland for medical treatment following an assassination attempt while campaigning for president of the United States.
- ↑ Removed from office upon being convicted of illegally using campaign and inaugural funds to pay personal debts; he was later pardoned by the state parole board based on innocence.
- ↑ Sens. John Amari, Frank "Butch" Ellis, and John Rice switched parties from Democrat to Republican.[1]
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Resigned to accept U.S. Senate seat.
- ↑ Switched parties from Democratic to Republican in December 1994.
- ↑ Reps. H. Mac Gipson and Ronald "Ron" Johnson switch parties from Democrat to Republican.
- ↑ Resigned to become United States Attorney General.
- ↑ Sens. Chip Bailey and Steve Windom switched parties from Democratic to Republican before the 1998 session.
- ↑ Reps. Gerald Allen, Steve Flowers, and Tim Parker, Jr. switch parties from Democrat to Republican.[2]
- ↑ Bennett ran as a Democrat in 1994 and as a Republican in 1998. He might have switched parties between those elections.
- ↑ Sen. Jeff Enfinger switched parties from Republican to Democrat[3]
- ↑ A Republican won a special election, flipping a seat from the Democrats.
- ↑ Rep. Blaine Galliher switched parties from Democrat to Republican[4]
- ↑ Rep. Johnny Ford switched parties from Democrat to Republican right after the election, becoming the first black Republican legislator in Alabama in over a century. He resigned in 2004 and was succeeded Democrat Pebblin Warren before the 2005 session. At the same time, Republican Nick Williams succeed longtime Democratic Rep. Jeff Dolbare in a special election, leaving the overall House partisan composition unchanged.[5][6][7]
- ↑ Democratic Rep. Jack Venable died, and was succeeded by Republican Barry Mask, flipping the seat from Democrat to Republican. [8]
- ↑ Sen. Jimmy Holley switched parties from Democrat to Republican[9]
- ↑ Paul Sanford succeeded Parker Griffith after he resigned to take a Congressional seat, flipping a seat from Democrat to Republican. Sen. Harri Anne Smith was thrown out by the Republicans and became an Independent at around the same time after crossing party lines to endorse Democrat Bobby Bright in his successful run for Congress.
- ↑ Sen. Jim Preuitt switched parties from Democrat to Republican in the lead-up to the general election.
- ↑ Democratic Reps. Sue Schmitz and Lea Fite resigned and died, and were succeeded in special elections by Republicans Phil Williams and K.L. Brown, respectively, before the 2010 session.
- ↑ Rep. Parker Griffith switched parties from Democrat to Republican.
- ↑ Resigned per the terms of a plea deal after being convicted of using state resources to facilitate and conceal an extramarital affair with a former staffer.
- ↑ Four representatives, Alan Boothe, Steve Hurst, Mike Millican, and Lesley Vance, switched parties from Democrat to Republican right after the election. Between the 2011 and 2012 sessions Rep. Daniel Boman switched parties from Republican to Democrat, and Rep. Alan Harper switched parties from Democrat to Republican, leaving the partisan composition of the House overall the same.
- ↑ Sen. Jerry Fielding switched parties from Democrat to Republican.
- ↑ Rep. Richard Laird switched parties from Democrat to Independent, and caucused with the Republicans as such.
- ↑ Rep. Charles Newton switched parties from Democrat to Republican[10]
- ↑ Winner of the special election to fill the remainder of Jeff Sessions' term
References[edit]
- ↑ "Birmingham state senator switches to Republicans". The Gadsden Times. 1989-02-08. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ↑ Stevenson, Tommy (2002-01-06). "After 12 years, Parker won't seek 4th term". The Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ↑ Strope, Leigh (2000-05-14). "Democrats warm to idea of Republicans jumping ship". Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ↑ Beyerle, Dana (2001-09-07). "Galliher makes party switch official". The Gadsden Times. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
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- ↑ Beyerle, Dana (2005-02-15). "New Republican PAC files finance report after deadline". The Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ↑ Yoshinaka, Antoine. "Crossing the Aisle: Party Switching by U.S. Legislators in the Postwar Era". p. 88. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ↑ "Mask's win a sign of things to come". Shelby County Reporter. 2006-03-07. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ↑ Cook, Jim (2008-01-11). "Jimmy Holley switches to Republican party". Dothan Eagle. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ↑ Lyman, Brian (2014-02-07). "Charles Newton, longtime Democratic representative, switches to GOP". Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
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