United States Senate election in Alabama, 2014

November 4, 2014 (2014-11-04)


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

County results

Sessions

80-90%

90+%

U.S. Senator before election

Jeff Sessions
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Jeff Sessions
Republican

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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

Jeff Sessions, incumbent U.S. Senator^[2]

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	100.00%
	Republican hold

References

↑ 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.
↑ Phillip Rawls (January 16, 2013). "Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions will seek re-election in 2014". The Republic. Retrieved January 29, 2013.
↑ "Independent Candidate Ballot Access" (PDF). Alabama Secretary of State. August 20, 2013. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
↑ "Certified General Election Results" (PDF). Alabama Secretary of State. Retrieved December 13, 2014.

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