Alabama Election Results: Doug Jones Defeats Roy Moore in U.S. Senate Race
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Source: NYT
Doug Jones has won the election, according to A.P.
Candidate Party Votes Pct.
Doug Jones Democrat 580,688 49.5%
Roy Moore Republican 574,575 48.9
Total Write-Ins 18,727 1.6
91% reporting (2,020 of 2,220 precincts)
Doug Jones, a Democrat, won the special election on Tuesday to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, now the attorney general. Mr. Jones aimed to create a lead in the urban counties that include Birmingham and Montgomery, and across a band of largely black counties. Strong support for Roy S. Moore, the Republican, was expected in rural, mostly white parts of the state and in its northern half.
One critical battleground was a trio of smaller, whiter cities: Mobile, Tuscaloosa and Huntsville. Mr. Moore won a hard race in 2012 by keeping things close there.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/alabama-senate-special-election-roy-moore-doug-jones?smid=tw-share#eln-forecast-section
I just noticed those "smaller cities" include the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th largest cities in AL.
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