Alabama's 1st congressional district special election, 2013

Alabama's 1st congressional district special election, 2013
Alabama
December 17, 2013
Alabama's 1st congressional district
 
Nominee Bradley Byrne Burton LeFlore
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 36,042 14,968
Percentage 71% 29%
U.S. Representative before election

Jo Bonner
Republican

 Elected U.S. Representative

Bradley Byrne
Republican

A special election for Alabama's 1st congressional district was held following the resignation of Jo Bonner on August 2 to become vice chancellor for the University of Alabama.[1] Primary elections were held on September 24. A runoff in the Republican primary took place on November 5 and the general election was pushed back to December 17.[2] Republican Bradley Byrne won the election by a wide margin in the strongly conservative district.[3]

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Endorsements

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size		 Margin of
error		 Bradley
Byrne		 Daniel
Dyas		 Chad
Fincher		 Wells
Griffith		 Quin
Hillyer		 Jessica
James		 Sharon
Powe		 David
Thornton		 Dean
Young		 Undecided
Cygnal September 17–18, 2013 716 ± 3.64% 34% 2% 14.9% 8.3% 9.1% 0.7% 1.1% 0.3% 12.1% 17.5%

Results

Republican primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Bradley Byrne 18,090 34.57
Republican Dean Young 12,011 22.95
Republican Chad Fincher 8,177 15.63
Republican Quin Hillyer 7,260 13.87
Republican Wells Griffith 5,758 11
Republican Daniel Dyas 391 0.75
Republican Jessica James 391 0.75
Republican Sharon Powe 184 0.35
Republican David Thornton 72 0.14
Total votes 52,344 100

Runoff

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size		 Margin of
error		 Bradley
Byrne		 Dean
Young		 Other Undecided
Cygnal October 30, 2013 1,027 ± 3.03% 40.2% 43.2% — 16.6%
Wenzel Strategies October 6–8, 2013 412 ± ?% 44% 37% — 19%

Results

Republican primary runoff results
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Bradley Byrne 38,150 52.5
Republican Dean Young 34,534 47.5
Total votes 72,684 100

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Results

Democratic primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Burton LeFlore 3,129 70.2
Democratic Lula Albert-Kaigler 1,328 29.8
Total votes 4,457 100

Independent

Candidates

Declared

References

  1. ↑ "LIVE: Rep. Jo Bonner talks about his resignation from Congress; new job at UA". Blog.al.com. May 23, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  2. ↑ "9 Republicans, 2 Democrats qualify for AL-01 congressional race". Blog.al.com. August 6, 2013. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
  3. ↑ Sullivan, Sean (December 17, 2013). "Republican Bradley Byrne wins Alabama special election". The Washington Post. Washington, DC. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  4. ↑ Cahn, Emily (June 3, 2013). "Top Republican to Enter Alabama Special Election #AL01". Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Talbot, George (August 5, 2013). "9 Republicans, 2 Democrats qualify for AL-01 congressional race". al.com. Retrieved August 6, 2013.
  6. ↑ Talbot, George (July 9, 2013). "Republican Wells Griffith to run for AL-01 congressional seat". al.com. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Talbot, George (May 28, 2013). "The list: who's in, who's out of AL-01 congressional race". al.com. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Talbot, George (May 24, 2013). "First District congressional race: who's in, who's out (updated)". Press-Register. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
  9. ↑ Can a convicted felon run for Congress from jail? | PolitiFact
  10. ↑ State Sen. Trip Pittman, R-Montrose, rules out bid for Congress | AL.com
  11. 1 2 "Paul Ryan Endorses in Special Election". Roll Call. August 7, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  12. ↑ Talbot, George (June 6, 2013). "First-time candidate James Hall to run for AL-01 congressional seat". al.com. Retrieved June 7, 2013.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/22/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.