1958 Alabama Senate election
November 4, 1958
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All 35 seats in the Alabama State Senate 18 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winners by vote share Democratic: 80–90% Unopposed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1958 Alabama Senate election took place on Tuesday, November 4, 1958, to elect 35 representatives to serve four-year terms in the Alabama Senate. Across the 35 districts, only one, District 13 in Jefferson County, was actually at stake in the November general election. As the Democratic Party was dominant in the state, state legislative seats were generally decided at the Democratic primary election. This was the last time an Alabama Senate general election used the original 1901 district map, as district boundaries would be adjusted in July 1962.
This election saw numerous senators aligned with incumbent governor Jim Folsom lose their primaries, whether they were running for re-election or to some other office. Among this group was president pro tempore Broughton Lamberth of Tallapoosa County, who unsuccessfully ran for the state house.
The Democratic primary election was held on May 6 with runoff elections on June 3. The sole Republican candidate, John F. Dyer, was nominated by party convention on May 30.
At the beginning of the 1959 session, Vaughan Hill Robison of Montgomery County was unanimously elected president pro tempore.