AL-02: Shomari Figures (D) and Caroleene Dobson (R) head to general election
Democrat Shomari Figures and Republican Caroleene Dobson are headed to the November general election after winning runoffs Tuesday in Alabama’s newly drawn 2nd Congressional District.
As of 10:26 p.m. Tuesday, Figures, an attorney, had 21,926 votes (61%) while House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels, D-Huntsville, had 13,990 votes (39%) in unofficial returns.
In the Republican runoff, Dobson, also an attorney, had 14,688 votes (58%) while former Sen. Dick Brewbaker, R-Pike Road, had 10,454 votes (42%) in unofficial returns as of 9:10 p.m. AP called the race shortly after 9 p.m.
Figures took both of the major cities in the district. He appeared Tuesday to have narrowly won Montgomery with 7,151 votes (51.91%). He dominated Mobile, his home county, taking over 90% of the vote (9,591 out of 10,431 votes cast).
https://alabamareflector.com/2024/04/16/2nd-congressional-district-shomari-figures-and-caroleene-dobson-head-to-general-election/
