Voters in Alabama will head to the polls on Nov. 5, casting their ballot in the presidential race and several down-ballot contests.
The state’s winner will receive its nine electoral votes.
Alabama polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with mail-in voting only allowed in circumstances that permit absentee ballots.
Alabama is a consistently red state, with more than 60% of its voters casting ballots for the Republican Party’s candidate in every presidential election since 2004. A Democrat has not carried the state in a presidential election since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Last summer, the Supreme Court decided that Alabama’s congressional maps, which only had one majority-Black district, were unconstitutional. A new second congressional district, with a near-majority Black population, was created. Republican Caroleen Dobson is facing off against Shomari Figures for that seat.
Counties are colored red or blue when the % expected vote reporting reaches a set threshold. This threshold varies by state and is based on patterns of past vote reporting and expectations about how the vote will report this year.