Alabama

Alabama is a Deep South state with a 27% Black population and a history of redistricting disputes under the Voting Rights Act. Alabama's congressional map has been a flashpoint since the Supreme Court's 2023 Allen v. Milligan ruling, which upheld Section 2 challenges to dilutive maps and ordered the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district.

Alabama became the first state to void an in-progress primary election under the Callais doctrine on 19 May 2026, nullifying its own congressional primary mid-count after the legislature passed new district lines eliminating the seat held by Representative Shomari Figures (D, Mobile) . A district court initially blocked the new map on 26 May, but the Supreme Court reversed that block with an unsigned 6-3 shadow-docket stay on 2 June 2026, allowing Alabama to hold its 11 August primary re-do under the contested lines; Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Brown Jackson dissented .

With the stay in place, Alabama proceeded to run its Republican and Democratic congressional runoffs on 16 June 2026: Barry Moore won the Republican runoff, defeating Navy SEAL Jared Hudson, while attorney Everett Wess took the Democratic runoff with 72% over Dakarai Larriett . The redrawn districts still face their full re-do primary on 11 August 2026. Alabama's sequence, voided primary, Supreme Court stay, then resumed runoffs under the disputed map, has become the procedural template other post-Callais states are watched against.