Alabama News Network is your Campaign 2020 headquarters, with complete results of state and local races. GET COMPLETE ELECTION RESULTS Polls closed at 7 p.m. tonight. With more than 300,000 absentee ballots returned and long lines at many polling locations statewide, there will be lot of votes to count tonight. Among the top races: U.S. Senate: Democratic incumbent Sen. Doug…
Alabama News Network Political Analyst Steve Flowers joined us at 5:30 to talk about what happens in the country after the presidential election, no matter who wins. Flowers says the country is as divided as he’s ever seen it. He says it will take more than a speech to bring the nation back together. He says the two political parties…
Alabama News Network Political Analyst Steve Flowers appeared on our 5:00 p.m. news to talk about what to look for on election night. Flowers says the lines of people at polls across Alabama are unprecedented. He says that would appear to benefit Republicans because some of the longest lines were at voting locations in Republican suburbs of Birmingham and Mobile….
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill was our guest on “Alabama News Rising” this morning to talk to us by phone about his expectations for Election Day in Alabama. Merrill says the latest numbers show more than 331,000 absentee ballots were requested for this election. He says so far, more than 300,000 have been returned. More ballots should be added…
Montgomery County Probate Judge J.C. Love III was on Alabama News Rising this morning in a phone interview to talk about his expectations for Election Day. He says he expects turnout to be five times what it was in 2008 and 2012 when President Obama was on the ballot, which had been the highest turnout to date. This time, he…
U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Alabama) will try to perform another Deep South win Tuesday, this time against former college football coach Tommy Tuberville. The race pits the incumbent former U.S. attorney against Tuberville, who has made support for President Donald Trump the main pillar of his campaign. Jones has positioned himself as a moderate and is often called the Senate’s…
Most Alabama voters know that the November 3 General Election ballot will feature the presidential race and our U.S. Senate race. But there’s a lot more that you’ll find on your ballot. There are six proposed state amendments that will be on everyone’s ballot. There’s also the race for Public Service Commission president. While there are several state court races,…
In the aftermath of last week’s runoffs in cities across our area, one race was decided by a single provisional ballot. In Opp, the District 2 City Council runoff had ended in a tie. Both incumbent councilwoman Charlotte Hunt and her challenger T.D. Morgan finished the night with 67 votes each. But there was one provisional ballot cast in the…
When the final unofficial results were announced, two local incumbent mayors lost their re-election bids. Both of them serve cities in Tallapoosa County. In the Alexander City mayor’s race, Mayor Tommy Spraggins lost to Curtis Wood “Woody” Baird. The vote totals were 1,776 to 1,696, or 51% to 49%. Just down the road in Dadeville, Mayor Wayne Smith also lost….
Tuesday is runoff day for voters in many cities across our area. They will be deciding municipal races, including those for mayor and city council. The races are non-partisan, so candidates don’t run as Democrats or Republicans. The runoffs are between candidates who finished first or second during the initial voting on August 25 in races where no candidate got…
