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2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama

The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama took place on November 4, 2014. Voters elected the 7 U.S. representatives from the state of Alabama. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices, including the Governor of Alabama.

Primary elections were held on June 3, 2014. Primary runoffs, necessary if no candidate won a majority of the vote, were held on July 15.

Overview

Results of the 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama by district:

District 1

Republican incumbent Bradley Byrne, who had represented the district since a December 2013 special election, ran for re-election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Burton LeFlore, real estate agent and nominee for this seat in 2013

General election

Predictions

Campaign

Byrne was originally believed to be running for re-election unopposed, but LeFlore managed to qualify.

Results

District 2

Republican incumbent Martha Roby, who had represented the district since 2011, ran for re-election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Erick Wright

General election

Predictions

Results

District 3

Republican incumbent Mike Rogers, who had represented the district since 2003, ran for re-election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
Eliminated in primary
  • Thomas Casson

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Jesse T. Smith, U.S. Army veteran

General election

Predictions

Results

District 4

Republican incumbent Robert Aderholt, who had represented the district since 1997, ran for re-election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
Withdrawn
  • Thomas E. Drake II

Democratic primary

No Democrats filed for the office.

General election

Predictions

Results

District 5

Republican incumbent Mo Brooks, who had represented the district since 2011, ran for re-election.

Republican primary

Brooks had defeated the then incumbent Democrat-turned-Republican Parker Griffith, in the 2010 Republican primary and again in 2012. Supporters of Griffith circulated petitions to get him on the ballot as an independent. He considered doing so, but instead re-joined the Democratic Party and ran for Governor.

Candidates

Nominee
Eliminated in primary
  • Jerry Hill
Declined

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

No Democrats filed to run.

Declined

General election

Mark Bray challenged Brooks as an independent candidate, with Reggie Hill running as a write-in candidate.

Predictions

Results

District 6

Republican incumbent Spencer Bachus, who had represented the 6th district since 1993, did not run for re-election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Gary Palmer, president of the conservative think tank Alabama Policy Institute
Eliminated in primary
Declined

Polling

Results

DeMarco and Palmer advanced to a July 15 runoff election to decide the Republican primary.

Runoff

Polling
Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Avery Vise, businessman

General election

Campaign

Palmer faced Democrat Mark Lester, a professor at Birmingham-Southern College who replaced original nominee Avery Vise.

Robert Shattuck, who lost in the Republican primary, ran as a write-in candidate.

Libertarian Aimee Love had been running, but the Alabama Libertarian Party was unable to secure ballot access for federal elections.

Predictions

Results

District 7

Democratic incumbent Terri Sewell, who had represented the district since 2011, ran for re-election.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
Eliminated in primary
  • Tamara Harris Johnson, former Birmingham City Attorney

Results

Republican primary

No Republicans filed to run for the office.

General election

Predictions

Results

References

External links