Shomari Figures, the son of a prominent Democratic political family in South Alabama and an aide in the Justice Department during the Biden and Obama administrations, on Tuesday became only the fourth Black member elected to Congress from Alabama since ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Shomari Figures, a Black Democrat running to represent Alabama's 2nd Congressional District which was redrawn by a federal court order, has won the seat over Republican challenger Caroleene Dobson, according to The Associated Press.

A winner has been declared after a months-long heated battle for Alabama’s newly redraw. Democratic candidate Shomari Figures claimed victory Tuesday night in Mobile. Figures spent the majority of Election Tuesday making his way across the state of Alabama.

Democratic nominee Shomari Figures won election Tuesday in Alabama’s newly drawn 2nd Congressional District in a race that could help shape the balance of power in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Associated Press called the race at 10:55 p.

Shomari Figures won an Alabama congressional seat in a district that was redrawn last year after the Supreme Court weighed in on the key redistricting case. The nation’s highest court ordered the state to redraw its 2nd Congressional District,

Shomari Figures claimed victory Tuesday night, in the race for Alabama’s newly drawn second congressional district.Figures wins Alabama’s redrawn 2nd Congressional DistrictFigures, who went up against Republican Caroleene Dobson,

Shomari Figures, the Black Democrat running in an Alabama congressional district redrawn last year by a court order, has won the seat over Republican Caroleene Dobson, NBC News projects.

As of 10:25 pm, with sixty of Alabama’s sixty seven counties reporting their vote tallies, NBC News is projecting that Democrat Shomari Figures has won the State’s newly redrawn Congressional District two.