Campaign signs line the driveway to the entrance of a polling place on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in Millbrook, Alabama. The Alabama Secretary of State's Office Thursday said more than 70% of ballots cast on Tuesday were straight ticket. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector) (Getty images)
More than 70% of Alabama voters cast straight-ticket party ballots on Tuesday, a record that also featured a higher percentage of those votes going to Democrats.
The Secretary of State’s Office published a news release Thursday that said almost 1.2 million of the nearly 1.7 million votes were straight ticket.
Of those, about 645,000, 54%, voted straight-party ticket for Republican candidates. Almost 550,000, about 46%, went to Democrats.
In 2022, about 947,000 of the 1.4 million votes cast that year (66.5%) were straight-ticket. But about 649,000 of those (68.4%) went to Republicans, while just over 298,000 (31.5%) went to Democrats.
As of 2026, Alabama is one of six states to offer straight-ticket voting on the ballot along with Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, according to the Election Lab at MIT.
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