Yellowhammer News has compiled a list of county-by-county sample ballots for the state’s upcoming primary runoff elections that will take place on July 14.
Each candidate name below links to their stances on the issues, as made available online by their campaigns.
Most notably, Alabama’s Republican Party will see a competition between former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville to be the party’s nominee to take on Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) in November.
Republicans are also choosing a candidate in Alabama’s First Congressional District that encompasses most of the southwest area of the state and Alabama’s Second Congressional District, which covers parts of the Montgomery area and the Wiregrass region.
Competing in AL-01 are Mobile County Commissioner Jerry Carl and former State Senator Bill Hightower (R-Mobile).
AL-02 is a matchup of Dothan businessman Jeff Coleman and former State Representative Barry Moore (R-Enterprise).
The GOP has one additional statewide race, for Place 2 on the Court of Criminal Appeals. The two candidates to be the Republican nominee for that position are incumbent Beth Kellum and former Lauderdale County Commissioner Will Smith. The Democratic Party did not field a candidate for that judgeship, so the winner of the July 14 Republican primary runoff is assured of victory in November.
The most notable race in the Democratic Party is for the nomination in the open First Congressional District.
In that primary runoff, military veteran and charity CEO James Averhart is facing Dr. Kiani Gardner, a biology professor from Mobile.
The Democrats are also choosing a nominee for Alabama Board of Education District 5, a heavily democratic district that contains much of the city of Montgomery and a large portion of the Black Belt region. The two candidates in that runoff are former Montgomery City Councilman Fred Bell and a former educator from Selma, Tonya Chestnut.
Both parties are also conducting many local county-level races.
Any Alabama voter wary of contracting COVID-19 at their polling place can apply for an absentee ballot by June 29.
Sample ballots, courtesy of the Alabama Secretary of State’s Website:
Henry Thornton is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can contact him by email: henry@new-yhn.local or on Twitter @HenryThornton95
