{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-al",
  "name": "Alabama",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/al",
  "slug": "al",
  "state": "al",
  "state_name": "Alabama",
  "state_id": "us-al"
 },
 "question": "How did Alabama vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Katie Britt (Republican) won by 35.7 points",
  "value": 35.7,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2022: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Katie Britt (Republican) 66.6%, Will Boyd (Democrat) 30.9%, John Sophocleus (Libertarian) 2.3%",
   "1,414,238 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2022",
 "as_of_label": "2022",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Alabama since 1978",
   "description": "16 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 5 and Republicans in 11.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1978,
       93.995,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       -2.87,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1984,
       26.401,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       0.564,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1990,
       21.147,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       31.733,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1996,
       -6.988,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       -26.551,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2002,
       -18.749,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       -35.191,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2008,
       -26.842,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       -30.465,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2014,
       -97.252,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       -28.092,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2020,
       -20.358,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       -35.737,
       "rep"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 582005,
    "votes": {
     "Howell Heflin": 547054,
     "Jerome B. Couch": 34951
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 729842,
    "votes": {
     "Donald Stewart": 401852,
     "James D. Martin": 316170,
     "Michael R. A. Erdey": 6006,
     "A. J. Killinsworth": 5814
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1296757,
    "votes": {
     "Jeremiah Denton": 650362,
     "Jim Folsom Jr.": 610175,
     "Michael R.a. Erdey": 15989,
     "William A. Crew": 13098,
     "Sallie M. Hadnott": 2973,
     "Jim Partain": 2649,
     "Mohammed Oliver": 1511
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1984,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1371234,
    "votes": {
     "Howell Heflin": 860535,
     "Albert Lee Smith": 498508,
     "S. D. (yana) Davis": 12191
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1211897,
    "votes": {
     "Richard Shelby": 609360,
     "Jeremiah Denton": 602537
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1185154,
    "votes": {
     "Howell Heflin": 717814,
     "Bill Cabaniss": 467190
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1577799,
    "votes": {
     "Richard C. Shelby": 1022698,
     "Richard Sellers": 522015,
     "Jerome Shockley": 31811
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1996,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1499393,
    "votes": {
     "Jeff Sessions": 786436,
     "Roger Bedford": 681651,
     "Mark Thornton": 21550,
     "Charles R. Hebner": 9123
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1293405,
    "votes": {
     "Richard C. Shelby": 817973,
     "Clayton Suddith": 474568
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2002,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1353023,
    "votes": {
     "Jeff Sessions": 792561,
     "Susan Parker": 538878,
     "Jeff Allen": 20234
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1839066,
    "votes": {
     "Richard C. Shelby": 1242200,
     "Wayne Sowell": 595018
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2060191,
    "votes": {
     "Jeff Sessions": 1305383,
     "Vivian Davis Figures": 752391
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1485499,
    "votes": {
     "Richard C. Shelby": 968181,
     "William G. Barnes": 515619
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 818090,
    "votes": {
     "Jeff Sessions": 795606
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2087444,
    "votes": {
     "Richard C. Shelby": 1335104,
     "Ron Crumpton": 748709
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2316445,
    "votes": {
     "Tommy Tuberville": 1392076,
     "Doug Jones": 920478
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1414238,
    "votes": {
     "Katie Britt": 942154,
     "Will Boyd": 436746,
     "John Sophocleus": 32879
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2022",
    "Katie Britt (R) 66.6%",
    "Will Boyd (D) 30.9%",
    "35.7 pts",
    "1,414,238"
   ],
   [
    "2020",
    "Tommy Tuberville (R) 60.1%",
    "Doug Jones (D) 39.7%",
    "20.4 pts",
    "2,316,445"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "Richard C. Shelby (R) 64.0%",
    "Ron Crumpton (D) 35.9%",
    "28.1 pts",
    "2,087,444"
   ],
   [
    "2014",
    "Jeff Sessions (R) 97.3%",
    "unopposed",
    "97.3 pts",
    "818,090"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "Richard C. Shelby (R) 65.2%",
    "William G. Barnes (D) 34.7%",
    "30.5 pts",
    "1,485,499"
   ],
   [
    "2008",
    "Jeff Sessions (R) 63.4%",
    "Vivian Davis Figures (D) 36.5%",
    "26.8 pts",
    "2,060,191"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "Richard C. Shelby (R) 67.5%",
    "Wayne Sowell (D) 32.4%",
    "35.2 pts",
    "1,839,066"
   ],
   [
    "2002",
    "Jeff Sessions (R) 58.6%",
    "Susan Parker (D) 39.8%",
    "18.7 pts",
    "1,353,023"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "Richard C. Shelby (R) 63.2%",
    "Clayton Suddith (D) 36.7%",
    "26.6 pts",
    "1,293,405"
   ],
   [
    "1996",
    "Jeff Sessions (R) 52.5%",
    "Roger Bedford (D) 45.5%",
    "7.0 pts",
    "1,499,393"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "Richard C. Shelby (D) 64.8%",
    "Richard Sellers (R) 33.1%",
    "31.7 pts",
    "1,577,799"
   ],
   [
    "1990",
    "Howell Heflin (D) 60.6%",
    "Bill Cabaniss (R) 39.4%",
    "21.1 pts",
    "1,185,154"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "Richard Shelby (D) 50.3%",
    "Jeremiah Denton (R) 49.7%",
    "0.6 pts",
    "1,211,897"
   ],
   [
    "1984",
    "Howell Heflin (D) 62.8%",
    "Albert Lee Smith (R) 36.4%",
    "26.4 pts",
    "1,371,234"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Jeremiah Denton (R) 50.2%",
    "Jim Folsom Jr. (D) 47.1%",
    "3.1 pts",
    "1,296,757"
   ],
   [
    "1978 special",
    "Donald Stewart (D) 55.1%",
    "James D. Martin (R) 43.3%",
    "11.7 pts",
    "729,842"
   ],
   [
    "1978",
    "Howell Heflin (D) 94.0%",
    "Jerome B. Couch (I) 6.0%",
    "88.0 pts",
    "582,005"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-al/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}