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Britt: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Boyd: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% | |||||||||||||||||
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The 2022 United States Senate election in Alabama was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Alabama. Incumbent senator Richard Shelby was first elected in 1986 and re-elected in 1992 as a Democrat before becoming a Republican in 1994.[1] In February 2021, Shelby announced that he would not seek re-election to a seventh term,[2] which resulted in the first open Senate seat since 1996 and the first in this seat since 1968.[a]
Primary elections in Alabama were held on May 24, with Will Boyd securing the Democratic nomination. However, as none of the Republican candidates received at least 50% of the vote, a runoff election occurred on June 21 between the top two candidates of the first round: attorney Katie Britt and U.S. representative Mo Brooks. Britt won the runoff against Brooks and subsequently became the Republican nominee.[3]
Britt's victory in the Republican Party primary was seen as tantamount to election in Alabama, which is a heavily Republican state.[4][5][6] Britt won the general election and became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate in the state's history.[b] She is also the first non-incumbent Republican Senator from Alabama to be elected to this seat since 1980.
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