Alabama's 2nd congressional district

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Alabama's 2nd congressional district
Alabama's 2nd congressional district - since January 3, 2013. Alabama's 2nd congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Current Representative		Martha Roby (R–Montgomery)
Area	10,608 mi2 (27,275 km2)
Distribution	50.1% urban, 49.9% rural
Population (2000)	635,300
Median income	$32,460
Ethnicity	67.0% White, 29.4% Black, 0.6% Asian, 1.5% Hispanic, 0.4% Native American, 1.0% other
Occupation	29.5% blue collar, 55.1% white collar, 15.4% gray collar
Cook PVI	R+17

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

The population of the district is fairly evenly distributed with a large number of small-to-medium-sized cities spread throughout the district. The presence of Fort Rucker in Dale County and Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery County imbibes the district with a heavy military leaning. The district is home of Troy University, one of the largest providers of education to active military members in the country.

At the federal level, the district is strongly Republican. 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. The district 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.

Voting

Election results from statewide races
Year	Office	Results
2012	President	Romney 63 - 36%
2008	President	McCain 63 - 36%
2004	President	Bush 67 - 33%
2000	President	Bush 61 - 38%

List of representatives

A visual representation of party control of Alabama's 2nd Congressional District. The district first elected a member for the 18th congress.

Congress	Representative	Party	Years	Notes
District created March 4, 1823
18th	75px John McKee	Jacksonian D-R	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825
19th-20th		Jacksonian	March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829
21st	Robert E. B. Baylor	Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831
22nd	Samuel Wright Mardis	Jacksonian	March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833	Redistricted to the 3rd district
23rd	John McKinley	Jacksonian	March 3, 1833 – March 3, 1835
24th	Joshua L. Martin	Jacksonian	March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837
25th		Democratic	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839
26th	David Hubbard	Democratic	March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841
27th	District inactive, all representatives elected At-large on a general ticket
28th	James Edwin Belser	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845
29th-31st	Henry Washington Hilliard	Whig	March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1851
32nd-33rd	James Abercrombie	Whig	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1855
34th-35th	Eli Sims Shorter	Democratic	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859
36th	James L. Pugh	Democratic	March 4, 1859 – January 21, 1861	Withdrew
37th-39th	1861-1868			Civil War and Reconstruction
40th-42nd	Charles Waldron Buckley	Republican	July 21, 1868 – March 3, 1873
43rd	75px James T. Rapier	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875
44th	Jeremiah Norman Williams	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	Redistricted to the 3rd district
45th-52nd	Hilary A. Herbert	Democratic	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1893
53rd-56th	Jesse F. Stallings	Democratic	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1901
57th-60th	Ariosto A. Wiley	Democratic	March 4, 1901 – June 17, 1908	Died
60th	Oliver C. Wiley	Democratic	November 3, 1908 – March 3, 1909
61st-66th	S. Hubert Dent, Jr.	Democratic	March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1921
67th-68th	John R. Tyson	Democratic	March 4, 1921 – March 27, 1923	Died
68th-75th	J. Lister Hill	Democratic	August 14, 1923- January 11, 1938	appointed to US Senate
75th-87th	George M. Grant	Democratic	June 14, 1938 – January 3, 1963	Redistricted to the At-large district
88th	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965			District inactive, all representatives elected At-large on a general ticket
89th-103rd	75px William Louis Dickinson	Republican	January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1993
103rd-110th	75px Terry Everett	Republican	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2009
111th	Bobby Bright	Democratic	January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2011
112th-114th	Martha Roby	Republican	January 3, 2011 - present

Results

2004

Main article: U.S. House election, 2004

Alabama's 2nd Congressional District House Election, 2004

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Terry Everett	177,086	71.51%
	Democratic	Charles James	70,562	28.49%

2006

Main article: U.S. House election, 2006

Alabama's 2nd Congressional District House Election, 2006

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Terry Everett	124,302	69.54%	-1.97%
	Democratic	Charles James	54,450	30.46%	+1.97%
Majority			69,852	39.08%
Total votes			178,752	100
	Republican hold

2008

Main article: U.S. House election, 2008

Alabama's 2nd Congressional District House Election, 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Bobby Bright	144,368	50.31%	+19.85%
	Republican	Jay Love	142,578	49.69%	-19.85%
Majority			1,790	0.62%
Total votes			286,946	100
	Democratic gain from Republican

2010

Main article: U.S. House election, 2010

Alabama's 2nd Congressional District House Election, 2010

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Martha Roby	111,332	51.10%	+1.41
	Democratic	Bobby Bright (Incumbent)	106,456	48.90%	-1.41
Majority			4,876	2.2%
Total votes			217,788	100
	Republican gain from Democratic

2012

Main article: U.S. House election, 2012

Alabama's 2nd Congressional District House Election, 2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Martha Roby	180,483	63.66%
	Democratic	Therese Ford	103,007	36.34%
Majority			77,476	27.32%
Total votes			283,490	100.00
	Republican hold

2014

Main article: U.S. House election, 2014

Alabama's 2nd Congressional District House Election, 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Martha Roby	95,073	66.09%
	Democratic	Erick Wright	48,789	33.91%
	Republican hold

Living former Members

As of April 2015, there are two former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 2nd congressional district that are currently living.

Representative	Term in office	Date of birth (and age)
Terry Everett	1993 - 2009	(1937-02-15) February 15, 1937
Bobby Bright	2009 - 2011	(1952-07-21) July 21, 1952

Historical district boundaries

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2003 - 2013

See also

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

References

• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

External links

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