Alabama's 2nd congressional district

Alabama's 2nd congressional district
Alabama's 2nd congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Representative	Martha Roby R–Montgomery
Area	10,608 sq mi (27,470 km2)
Distribution	54.71[1]% urban 45.29% rural
Population (2016)	681,621[2]
Median income	$46,579[3]
Ethnicity	63.02% white 32.2% black 1.15% Asian 3.49% Hispanic 0.33% Native American
Occupation	29.5% Blue-collar 55.1% White-collar 15.4% Gray-collar
Cook PVI	R+16[4]

Alabama's 2nd congressional district is a United States congressional district in Alabama that elects 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.

Character

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 (and expected) 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

Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history	District location
District created March 4, 1823
John McKee	Jackson Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	18th 19th 20th	Elected in 1823. Re-elected in 1825. Re-elected in 1827. Retired.	1823–1833 "Middle district": Bibb, Blount, Franklin, Greene, Jefferson, Marengo, Marion, Morgan, Perry, Pickens, Saint Clair, Shelby, and Tuscaloosa counties
	Jacksonian	March 4, 1825– March 3, 1829
Robert E. B. Baylor	Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831	21st	Elected in 1829. Lost re-election.
Samuel Wright Mardis	Jacksonian	March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833	22nd	Elected in 1831. Redistricted to the 3rd district.
John McKinley	Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835	23rd	Elected in 1833. Retired.	1833–1841
Joshua L. Martin	Jacksonian	March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837	24th 25th	Elected in 1835
	Democratic	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839		Re-elected in 1837. [data unknown/missing]
David Hubbard	Democratic	March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841	26th	Elected in 1839. Lost re-election.
District inactive, all representatives elected at-large.		March 3, 1841 – March 3, 1843	27th
James Edwin Belser	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845	28th	Elected in 1843. Retired.	1843–1855
Henry Washington Hilliard	Whig	March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1851	29th 30th 31st	Elected in 1845. Re-elected in 1847. Re-elected in 1849. Retired.
James Abercrombie	Whig	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1855	32nd 33rd	Elected in 1851. Re-elected in 1853. [data unknown/missing]
Eli Sims Shorter	Democratic	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859	34th 35th	Elected in 1855. Re-elected in 1857. [data unknown/missing]	1855–1863
James L. Pugh	Democratic	March 4, 1859 – January 21, 1861	36th	Elected in 1859. Withdrew.
Vacant		January 21, 1861 – July 21, 1868	36th 37th 38th 39th 40th	Civil War and Reconstruction
Charles Waldron Buckley	Republican	July 21, 1868 – March 3, 1873	40th 41st 42nd	Elected to finish the partial term. Re-elected in 1868. Re-elected in 1870. [data unknown/missing]	1863–1877
James T. Rapier	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	43rd	Elected in 1872. [data unknown/missing]
Jeremiah Norman Williams	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	44th	Elected in 1874. Redistricted to the 3rd district.
Hilary A. Herbert	Democratic	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1893	45th 46th 47th 48th 49th 50th 51st 52nd	Elected in 1876. Re-elected in 1878. Re-elected in 1880. Re-elected in 1882. Re-elected in 1884. Re-elected in 1886. Re-elected in 1888. Re-elected in 1890. [data unknown/missing]	1877–1893
Jesse F. Stallings	Democratic	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1901	53rd 54th 55th 56th	Elected in 1892. Re-elected in 1894. Re-elected in 1896. Re-elected in 1898. [data unknown/missing]	1893–1933
Ariosto A. Wiley	Democratic	March 4, 1901 – June 17, 1908	57th 58th 59th 60th	Elected in 1900. Re-elected in 1902. Re-elected in 1904. Re-elected in 1906. Died.
Vacant		June 17, 1908 – November 3, 1908	60th
Oliver C. Wiley	Democratic	November 3, 1908 – March 3, 1909		Elected to finish his brother's term. [data unknown/missing]
S. Hubert Dent Jr.	Democratic	March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1921	61st 62nd 63rd 64th 65th 66th	Elected in 1908. Re-elected in 1910. Re-elected in 1912. Re-elected in 1914. Re-elected in 1916. Re-elected in 1918. [data unknown/missing]
John R. Tyson	Democratic	March 4, 1921 – March 27, 1923	67th 68th	Elected in 1920. Re-elected in 1922. Died.
Vacant		March 27, 1923 – August 14, 1923	68th
J. Lister Hill	Democratic	August 14, 1923 – March 3, 1938	68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd 73rd 74th 75th	Elected to finish Tyson's term. Re-elected in 1924. Re-elected in 1926. Re-elected in 1928. Re-elected in 1930. Re-elected in 1932. Re-elected in 1934. Re-elected in 1936. Resigned when appointed U.S. Senator.
					1933–1963
Vacant		January 11, 1938 – June 14, 1938	75th
George M. Grant	Democratic	June 14, 1938 – January 3, 1963	75th 76th 77th 78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th	Elected to finish Hill's term. Re-elected in 1938. Re-elected in 1940. Re-elected in 1942. Re-elected in 1944. Re-elected in 1946. Re-elected in 1948. Re-elected in 1950. Re-elected in 1952. Re-elected in 1954. Re-elected in 1956. Re-elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Redistricted to the At-large district
District inactive, all representatives elected at-large on a general ticket.		January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965
William Louis Dickinson	Republican	January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1993	89th 90th 91st 92nd 93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd	Elected in 1964. Re-elected in 1966. Re-elected in 1968. Re-elected in 1970. Re-elected in 1972. Re-elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1976. Re-elected in 1978. Re-elected in 1980. Re-elected in 1982. Re-elected in 1984. Re-elected in 1986. Re-elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Retired.	1965–1973
					1973–1993
Terry Everett	Republican	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2009	103rd 104th 105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th	Elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Re-elected in 1996. Re-elected in 1998. Re-elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Retired.	1993–2003
					2003–2013
Bobby Bright	Democratic	January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2011	111th	Elected in 2008. Lost re-election.
Martha Roby	Republican	January 3, 2011 – present	112th 113th 114th 115th 116th	Elected in 2010. Re-elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Re-elected in 2018. Retiring.
					2013–present

Recent election results

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

2016

2018

See also

• Alabama's congressional districts
• List of United States congressional districts

References

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
• A New Nation Votes

External links

• CNN coverage of the 2008 election
• CNN coverage of the 2006 election
• CNN coverage of the 2004 election
• CNN coverage of the 2002 election
• CNN coverage of the 2000 election

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