Alabama's 2nd congressional district

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Alabama's 2nd congressional district
Alabama's 2nd congressional district since January 3, 2013
Representative	Barry Moore R–Enterprise
Area	10,608 sq mi (27,470 km2)
Distribution	54.71% urban[1] 45.29% rural
Population (2021)	690,107[2]
Median household income	$49,565[3]
Ethnicity	62.5% White 30.9% Black 3.3% Hispanic 1.7% Two or more races 1.1% Asian 0.5% other
Occupation	55.1% White-collar 29.5% Blue-collar 15.4% Gray-collar
Cook PVI	R+17[4]

Alabama's 2nd congressional district is a United States congressional district in Alabama, which elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives. It includes most of the Montgomery metropolitan area, and stretches into the Wiregrass Region in the southeastern portion of the state. The district encompasses portions of Montgomery County and the entirety of Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Elmore, Geneva, Henry, Houston and Pike counties. Other cities in the district include Andalusia, Dothan, Greenville, and Troy.

The district is represented by Republican Barry Moore, a former Alabama state representative, who replaced Martha Roby, the retired Republican incumbent, in the 2020 election.

There are several small-to-medium-sized cities spread throughout the district. Fort Rucker and Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base are both within its bounds, as is Troy University.

White voters here were among the first in Alabama to shift from the Democratic Party; the old-line Southern Democrats in this area began splitting their tickets as early as the 1950s. Today, the district is one of the most Republican districts in both Alabama and the nation. It has only supported a Democrat for president once since 1956, when Jimmy Carter carried it in 1976. In 2008, the district elected a Democrat to Congress for the first time since 1964, but it reverted to its Republican ways in 2010. At the state and local level, however, conservative Democrats continued to hold most offices as late as 2002.

White voters gave John McCain, the Republican candidate, 63.42% of the vote in 2008; Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate, received 36.05%, attracting voters beyond the substantial (and expected) African-American minority.

The district gives its congressmen very long tenures in Washington; only seven people have represented it since 1923, with all but one holding it for at least 10 years and four holding it for at least 15 years.

These are the results from the previous ten election cycles in Alabama's 2nd district.^[5]

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

2016

2018

2020

2020

Alabama will hold their Primary Elections on May 24, 2022. Should no candidate receive 50% of the Primary Election vote, than a Primary Runoff Election will be held on June 21, 2022.^[6] There are currently only five declared candidates for Alabama's 2nd Congressional District for the 2022 Election Cycle.^[7][8]

The incumbent office holder is denoted by an *.

• Alabama's congressional districts
• List of United States congressional districts

Specific

General

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
• A New Nation Votes
• "AL - District 02 - History". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved September 22, 2020.

• CNN coverage of the 2008 election
• CNN coverage of the 2006 election
• CNN coverage of the 2004 election
• CNN coverage of the 2002 election
• CNN coverage of the 2000 election