1970 Alabama Senate election

1970 Alabama Senate election
November 3, 1970
All 35 seats in the Alabama State Senate
18 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader O.J. Goodwyn
(did not stand) 		— Leland Childs
(lost re-election)
Party Democratic National Democratic Republican
Leader since January 10, 1967 — January 10, 1967
Leader's seat 24th p. 2 — 12th p. 2
Last election 34 seats, 61.2% New 1 seat, 37.6%
Seats won 35 0 0
Seat change 1 1
Popular vote 1,246,646 188,808 7,469
Percentage 82.51% 12.50% 0.49%
     Democratic hold      Democratic gain
Democratic:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      90–100%      Unopposed
President pro tempore before election

O.J. Goodwyn
Democratic

Elected President pro tempore

Pierre Pelham
Democratic

The 1970 Alabama Senate election took place on Tuesday, November 3, 1970, to elect 35 representatives to serve four-year terms in the Alabama Senate. Every single seat was won by a white male Democrat. In the previous general election, one Republican, Leland Childs, was elected, but had unsuccessfully sought re-election as a Democrat.

The Democratic primaries were held on May 5 with runoffs on June 2, which candidates had until February 28 to qualify for. Neither the Republican Party nor the NDPA held primaries for state office, instead opting to nominate by party convention. The Republican convention took place in Birmingham on July 17.

This was the last state senate election in Alabama before a 1973 federal court order mandated a new legislative map with single-member districts. At this point, the state had used a mixed system of single-member and multi-member districts to allocate seats in the legislature, all based on pre-existing county lines.


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