Alabama's 2nd congressional district


Alabama's 2nd congressional district is a United States congressional district in Alabama that elected 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 Martha Roby, a former Montgomery City councilwoman, who defeated Bobby Bright, the Democratic incumbent, in the November 2010 election.

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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 African-American minority.
The district gives its congressmen very long tenures in Washington; only six people have represented it since 1923.

Recent election results from statewide races

List of members representing the district

Recent election results

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