Shomari Figures will become the first Black person to hold the seat in Alabama after it was created after a Supreme Court battle.

Democrat Shomari Figures won election to a U.S. House seat representing Alabama on Thursday. Republican Rep. Barry Moore, who currently represents the district, is running in the neighboring 1st District after a federal court ordered Alabama to draw a new congressional district that ensured Black residents’ voting power.

Alabama voters are deciding who will represent a congressional district redrawn after a lengthy redistricting battle.

Alabama shifted about 3% toward President-Elect Donald Trump in Tuesday’s election. But if unofficial returns are correct, that may have less to do with new Republican votes than a shrinking pool of Democratic ones.

Voter turnout decreased in several North Alabama counties in the latest presidential election, falling short of 2020 levels, according to local probate judges and Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen.

Rep. Rogers, a Republican, was first elected to represent east Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002.

Republican Rep. Mike Rogers won election to a U.S. House seat representing Alabama on Tuesday. Rogers was reelected in Alabama's 3rd Congressional District.

Alabama has elected Democrat Shomari Figures to Congress after courts forced the state to redraw district lines.

With the victory by Shomari Figures, Alabama will most likely have two Black representatives in Congress at the same time for the first time in its history.

With Election Day 2024 results in, Republican former President Donald Trump was again elected president. Trump won Alabama’s nine electoral votes over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and then secured the election.

Shomari Figures, a former aide to Attorney General Merrick Garland, is projected to win his House race in Alabama’s newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ.