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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 Alabama.
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County results Sessions: 80–90% 90–100% | |||||||||||||||||
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Incumbent Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, who served in the position since 1997, ran for re-election to a fourth term in office. As the Democrats did not field a candidate, he was the only candidate to file before the deadline and was therefore unopposed in the Republican primary election and only faced write-in opposition in the general election.[1]
Sessions was re-elected with 97.25% of the vote with the remaining votes being write-ins. This alongside the concurrent gubernatorial election is the last time Jefferson County voted Republican in a statewide 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.
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| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Sessions (R) | $1,369,672 | $1,151,690 | $3,343,748 |
| Victor Sanchez Williams (D) | $4,497 | $4,247 | $250 |
| Source | Ranking | As of |
|---|---|---|
| The Cook Political Report[6] | Solid R | November 3, 2014 |
| Sabato's Crystal Ball[7] | Safe R | November 3, 2014 |
| Rothenberg Political Report[8] | Safe R | November 3, 2014 |
| Real Clear Politics[9] | Safe R | November 3, 2014 |
| Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size |
Margin of error |
Jeff Sessions (R) |
Other | Undecided |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouGov[10] | October 16–23, 2014 | 661 | ± 6.0% | 63% | 11% | 27% |
| YouGov[11] | September 20 – October 1, 2014 | 692 | ± 4.0% | 61% | 13% | 26% |
| YouGov[12] | August 18 – September 2, 2014 | 741 | ± 5.0% | 54% | 12% | 34% |
| YouGov[13] | July 5–24, 2014 | 1,036 | ± 5.2% | 65% | 10% | 26% |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Jeff Sessions (incumbent) | 795,606 | 97.25% | +33.89% | |
| Write-in | 22,484 | 2.75% | +2.63% | ||
| Total votes | 818,090 | 100.00% | N/A | ||
| Republican hold | |||||
Sessions did not complete this term, which ran through January 3, 2021; he resigned on February 9, 2017, to become Attorney General under the Trump administration. This triggered the interim appointment of Luther Strange to fill the vacancy until Democrat Doug Jones won a special election later that year. On November 7, 2019, Sessions announced that he would stand for this US Senate seat again in 2020 when it was due for its regularly-scheduled election,[15] though he was defeated in the runoff primary by football coach Tommy Tuberville, who would go onto win the general election.
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