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Tommy Tuberville will be Alabama’s next governor. Unofficial Secretary of State results show him with 872,076 votes (51.8%) to Doug Jones’s 806,149 (47.9%). Write-ins drew 5,917.

AL.com reported that the Associated Press declared Tuberville the winner early Wednesday. Jones did not concede in his election night speech. “This is not a victory speech,” AL Reporter quoted him as telling supporters. “But the good news is this is not a concession speech.”

Chambers County came in closer than the state. Tuberville took 5,307 votes (51.2%) to Jones’s 5,026 (48.5%), a gap of 281.

Republicans won every other statewide executive office on the ballot by margins of 8.2 to 10.4 points: John Wahl for lieutenant governor, Katherine Robertson for attorney general, Caroleene Dobson for secretary of state, Young Boozer for treasurer, Andrew Sorrell for auditor and Corey Hill for agriculture and industries. AL.com reports Robertson is the first woman elected attorney general in Alabama.

All figures are unofficial until certified.

Alabama’s congressional delegation will hold at five Republicans and two Democrats. In District 2, Democrat Shomari Figures beat Republican Rhett Marques, 124,422 votes to 107,049 (53.7% to 46.2%). AL.com reported that Marques conceded Tuesday night. In District 1, Republican Jerry Carl won a return to Congress after losing to Barry Moore in a GOP primary two years ago.

Moore won the Senate seat Tuberville is leaving, 917,344 votes (54.7%) to Everett Wess’s 758,397 (45.2%). In Chambers County, Moore took 5,485 votes (53.1%) to Wess’s 4,830 (46.8%).

Chambers sits in District 3, where Republican Mike Rogers beat Democrat Lee McInnis, 141,274 votes to 79,860 (63.8% to 36.1%). Chambers County voted 5,536 to 4,790 (53.5% to 46.3%) and gave McInnis his highest share of the district’s 11 counties. Talladega County was next at 45.7%, then Lee County at 45.2%.

State Senate District 13: Republican Randy Price beat Democrat Jamie Forsyth, 30,605 votes to 16,231 (65.3% to 34.6%) across five counties. In Chambers County it was 5,527 to 4,787 (53.5% to 46.3%).

House District 37: Republican Jeff Monroe beat Democrat Michelle French, 12,014 to 6,043 (66.5% to 33.4%). Chambers County gave Monroe 2,113 votes to French’s 1,660 (55.9% to 43.9%).

House District 38, which spans Chambers and Lee counties: Republican Kristin Nelson beat Democrat Hazel Floyd, 9,419 votes to 5,334 (63.8% to 36.1%). Chambers County was closer, 398 votes apart: 3,479 to 3,081 (53.0% to 46.9%). Lee County went 5,940 to 2,253 (72.4% to 27.5%). In February’s special election for the seat, which counted 2,195 votes, Nelson won 1,860 to 331.

Disclosure: Hazel Floyd, a candidate in this race, is the daughter of Sim Floyd, Jr., who publishes Read the Room.

State Board of Education District 2: Republican Tracie West beat Democrat Jamie McCurry, 115,373 to 72,056 (61.5% to 38.4%). Chambers County voted 5,466 to 4,793 (53.2% to 46.7%).

Statewide, AL Reporter’s unofficial count late Tuesday showed Republicans with 24 Senate seats, Democrats 10 and one independent, against 27 Republicans and 8 Democrats now. AL.com reported Senate President Pro Tem Garlan Gudger put the Republican number at 24 of 35. The independent, Jesse Battles, leads Republican Andrew Jones in District 10 by 84 votes. AL Reporter noted that provisional ballots could still shift the Senate count.

Republican Sara Crutchfield won Commission District 5, which includes Lanett, with 1,032 votes (65.0%) to Democrat Sandra Calloway Crim’s 550 (34.7%). The two answered the same 14 questions in Read the Room’s October Signal.

Six other county seats had no opponent on the ballot. John Benefield (R) took Commission District 3 with 1,479 votes, though 219 voters (12.9%) wrote in someone else. Debra Riley (R) took District 6 with 883. Sheriff Jeff Nelson (R) drew 6,204 votes and Revenue Commissioner Beth Abney (R) 6,078. On the school board, Candace Lyons (D) took District 2 with 1,033 and Jody Jennings (R) District 4 with 904.

The only contested countywide race was for coroner. Republican Levi Richardson beat Democrat Maurice Ward, 5,581 to 4,678 (54.3% to 45.5%), a 903-vote margin.

Next door, Lee County’s sheriff race was last week’s lead story. Cam Hunt (R), the only printed name, received 27,667 votes. Write-ins received 14,275 (34.0%), and the state tally does not say whose names were written in. Even 14,275 write-ins could not outwrite a printed name.

Amendment 1 sets a method for filling a lieutenant governor vacancy and lets the Legislature set pay for the office and legislative officers by joint resolution. Statewide: 986,924 yes to 521,954 no (65.4%). Chambers County: 6,400 to 2,685 (70.4%).

Amendment 2 creates a process for county school boards to merge. The State Board of Education must first study the impact. If at least 25% of registered voters in an affected county school system file a written protest, a majority of voters there must approve the merger at the next general election. Statewide: 759,239 to 731,880 (50.9% to 49.1%). Chambers County: 4,967 to 4,081 (54.9%).

Amendment 3 requires school boards to adopt a policy for a daily Pledge of Allegiance and lets them permit student-led prayer. Students who do not want to take part may leave the room. Statewide: 974,152 to 582,838 (62.6%). Chambers County: 6,276 to 3,056 (67.3%).

Amendment 4 requires school boards to adopt a policy for a weekly broadcast of the national anthem’s first stanza. Statewide: 908,787 to 642,863 (58.6%). Chambers County: 5,824 to 3,504 (62.4%).