Dem Shomari Figures Flips Alabama US House Seat

The New York Times reports:

Shomari Figures, a Democrat and former Justice Department official, won election in Alabama’s newly drawn Second Congressional District, according to The Associated Press, handing his party a rare pickup in the South.

Mr. Figures’s victory over Caroleene Dobson, a Republican lawyer and political newcomer, means that Alabama will have two Black representatives at the same time in Washington for the first time.

His win also signals that the state’s new congressional map, enforced by a federal court to undo Alabama’s illegal dilution of Black voting power, successfully ensured more equitable representation for the Black voters who make up more than a quarter of the state’s voting-age population.

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