State reference

How does government work in Alabama?

Alabama’s legislature, governor, courts, local governments and election offices, with a source for every fact.

Facts checked November 5, 2026. Anything we could not verify from a source is left out rather than guessed. Rules change, so confirm deadlines with the official election office.

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State legislators

Legislature

4 years

Governor’s term

Governor

Counties

Local

Seats in the US House

Clerk of the House

In effect since: 1901 source

What may surprise you here

Alabama elects its judges in partisan elections, and justices of the Supreme Court and appellate judges are elected statewide. source
Alabama is one of the states where members of both chambers of the legislature serve four-year terms. source

Legislature

Name: Legislature source
Senate: seats: 35 source
Senate: term in years: 4 source
House of Representatives: seats: 105 source
House of Representatives: term in years: 4 source
Term limits: None source

Governor and statewide offices

Term in years: 4 source
Term limit: Two consecutive terms source
Next regular election: 2030 source
Lieutenant governor: separate election source
Attorney general: elected source
Attorney general’s term in years: 4 source
Secretary of state: elected source
Secretary of state’s term in years: 4 source

Courts

Highest court: Supreme Court source
Intermediate appeals court: Court of Civil Appeals and Court of Criminal Appeals source
Main trial court: Circuit Court source
How high-court judges reach the bench: partisan election source

Local government

Called: county source
How many: 67 source
Cities and towns: Alabama has 462 municipal governments and no township governments, as of the 2022 Census of Governments. source
Schools: Alabama has 138 independent school districts, as of the 2022 Census of Governments. source

Elections

Chief election official: Secretary of State source
Who runs elections locally: Probate judges, circuit clerks, boards of registrars and sheriffs share the work source
Primary type: open source
Regular governor elections fall in: even source
Citizen initiatives: no source

Who holds these offices

As of November 5, 2026. Terms of the current Congress run to January 3, 2027. Winners of the November 3, 2026 elections are not shown until results are certified and they take office.

Governor: Kay Ivey Republican, in office since April 10, 2017. source

US senators for Alabama
Senator	Party	Seat	Senator since	Current term ends
Katie Boyd Britt	Republican	Class 3	January 3, 2023	January 3, 2029
Tommy Tuberville	Republican	Class 2	January 3, 2021	January 3, 2027

Members of the House for Alabama
Seat	Member	Party	In the House since
District 1	Barry Moore	Republican	January 3, 2021
District 2	Shomari Figures	Democratic	January 3, 2025
District 3	Mike Rogers	Republican	January 7, 2003
District 4	Robert B. Aderholt	Republican	January 7, 1997
District 5	Dale W. Strong	Republican	January 3, 2023
District 6	Gary J. Palmer	Republican	January 6, 2015
District 7	Terri A. Sewell	Democratic	January 5, 2011

Boundaries for the 119th Congress, simplified from the Census Bureau cartographic boundary file. For an exact address, use the House lookup.

Who has held each Senate seat since 2001

Each band is one person in the seat. The line marks November 2026; anything to its right is the rest of a current term. Dates through 2026 come from the congress-legislators public dataset, whose current members are matched against the Senate’s own roster on every build.

Senate seat, Class 2