1934 Alabama Senate election

1934 Alabama Senate election
November 6, 1934
All 35 seats in the Alabama State Senate
18 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader R. Holmes Powell
(did not stand) 		—
Party Democratic Republican
Leader since January 13, 1931 —
Leader's seat 26th–Macon Co. —
Last election 35 seats, 82.27% 0 seats, 5.97%
Seats won 35 0
Popular vote 149,413 5,353
Percentage 96.54% 3.46%
Winners by vote share
Democratic:      50–60%      Unopposed
President pro tempore before election

R. Holmes Powell
Democratic

Elected President pro tempore

D. Hardy Riddle
Democratic

The 1934 Alabama Senate election took place on Tuesday, November 6, 1934, to elect 35 representatives to serve four-year terms in the Alabama Senate. Primary elections were held on June 12 with runoff elections on May 1. The election used the same districts first drawn by the Alabama Constitution of 1901.

Only one Democratic nominee, Webb Chestnut of District 29 (Cherokee–DeKalb County), saw opposition in the general election in Republican James H. Jones.

Democrat D. Hardy Riddle of District 8 (Talladega County) was elected President pro tempore on January 8, 1935 at the legislature's opening session. He won seventeen votes from senators to G. R. Swift's fourteen votes.

The election took place concurrently with elections for U.S. House, governor, state house, and numerous other state and local offices.

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