2026 Primary Election Runoff Voter Guide
Voters go to the polls June 16 to determine the final party nominees for a handful of political offices, including the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Lieutenant Governor’s Office and a spot in the Legislature. The highly debated congressional seats are not on these ballots but are up in the Aug. 11 special election.
Use the links below to navigate between candidate lists and access essential voting information.
- Our continuing ElectionWatch 2026 coverage
- Democratic primary candidates for office
- GOP primary runoff candidates for office
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What you need to know to vote
The Alabama primary runoffs will take place on June 16. The runoffs are between the top two candidates in races where no one won more than half of the votes cast in the May 11 primaries. If you voted in the party primaries, you can vote only in the same party’s runoff. Crossover voting is not allowed in Alabama.
Still to come is a special election to determine candidates for Congressional Districts 1, 2, 6 and 7, which is set for Aug. 11. The general election will follow on Nov. 3.
If you need to check your polling place or registration status, visit this page on the Secretary of State’s Office site.
ID Required to Vote
You must show a valid photo ID at the polls before you’re allowed to vote. Several different documents will be accepted as ID at the polls, from a driver’s license to a student ID. If you don’t have one of the IDs, you should be allowed to vote a provisional ballot. If you don’t have one of the accepted IDs, you can apply for a voter photo ID from the county Board of Registrars. What ID do you need?
No crossover voting
When they go to the polls, voters must choose to participate in either the Republican or Democratic primary. And they may only vote in that party’s runoff if one is held. There is no party crossover voting in Alabama primaries.
Absentee voting:
Tuesday, June 9, is the deadline for mailed-in absentee ballot applications to be received in the circuit clerk’s office. Thursday, June 11, is the deadline to deliver absentee applications by hand to the clerk’s office.
Absentee ballots themselves need to be hand-delivered to the clerk’s office the day before the vote, June 15. Mailed-in ballots must be received in the office by noon on election day.
There are emergency provisions for voters whose employers at the last minute give them assignments that would make them unable to go to the polls on election day, people who have medical emergencies requiring treatment within five days of the election and their caregivers, and people who have a family member to the second degree of kinship die within five days of the election.
In cases of medical emergency, the ballot application requires that the attending physician describe and certify the circumstances as constituting an emergency. The voter may designate someone to turn in the medical emergency absentee ballot application and return the filled-in ballot to the absentee election manager before noon on the election day.
For more information, visit the Alabama Secretary of State’s website.
