The Alabama Republican Party announced Tuesday that State Sen. Will Barfoot (R-Pike Road) is the only Republican to qualify for the Alabama Senate District 25 special primary election, after candidate qualifying officially closed Monday evening.
Barfoot announced earlier this year that he would run for a neighboring seat in 2026 after the same federal three-judge panel that overturned the state’s 2021 lawfully-drawn maps forced the redrawing of his own Montgomery-area district into a configuration designed to favor a Democrat.
Governor Kay Ivey subsequently called special primary elections to fill the vacancies in Districts 25 and 26. Qualifying has now closed. Barfoot stands alone on the Republican side.
Whether the district Barfoot is running for ends up looking anything like the district the federal panel drew is, at this point, an open question.
The U.S. Supreme Court vacated the related congressional map injunctions on May 11 in light of Louisiana v. Callais. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s emergency stay applications, filed last Tuesday, are now pending – and the appeals on the State Senate map injunctions are running on a parallel track.
If Alabama’s run of recent legal victories continues, the State Senate map drawn by a college freshman may not survive much longer.
Grayson Everett is the editor in chief of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @Grayson270.
