United States Senate election in Alabama, 2014

United States Senate election in Alabama, 2014
Alabama
November 4, 2014 (2014-11-04)

 
Nominee Jeff Sessions
Party Republican
Popular vote 795,606
Percentage 97.25%

U.S. Senator before election

Jeff Sessions
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Jeff Sessions
Republican

The 2014 United States Senate election in Alabama took place on November 4, 2014, to elect a member of the United States Senate for the State of Alabama.

Incumbent Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, who has served in the position since 1997, ran for re-election to a fourth term in office. He was the only candidate to file before the deadline and as such he was unopposed in the Republican primary election and in the general election.[1] This was the only uncontested 2014 election for the United States Senate.

Sessions was re-elected with 97.25% of the vote. The remaining votes were write-ins.

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

General election

An independent candidate would have been able to challenge Sessions if at least 44,828 signatures had been submitted by June 3, 2014.[3] None did so.

Fundraising

Candidate Raised Spent Cash on Hand
Jeff Sessions (R) $1,369,672 $1,151,690 $3,343,748

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered
Sample
size
Margin of
error
Jeff
Sessions (R)
Other Undecided
CBS News/NYT/YouGov October 16–23, 2014 661 ± 6% 63% 11% 27%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov September 20–October 1, 2014 692 ± 4% 61% 13% 26%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov August 18–September 2, 2014 741 ± 5% 54% 12% 34%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov July 5–24, 2014 1,036 ± 5.2% 65% 10% 26%

Results

United States Senate election in Alabama, 2014[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Jeff Sessions (Incumbent) 795,606 97.25
Write-ins Other 22,484 2.75
Total votes 818,090 100
Republican hold

See also

References

  1. Cason, Mike (February 7, 2014). "Democrats pick up a handful of candidates; governor only contested statewide race in primary". AL.com. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
  2. Phillip Rawls (January 16, 2013). "Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions will seek re-election in 2014". The Republic. Retrieved January 29, 2013.
  3. "Independent Candidate Ballot Access" (PDF). Alabama Secretary of State. August 20, 2013. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  4. "Certified General Election Results" (PDF). Alabama Secretary of State. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
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