Senator Tommy Tuberville won Alabama’s Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, defeating two challengers. Newsmax and DecisionDesk HQ called the race for Tuberville, who is leaving the Senate to succeed term-limited Governor Kay Ivey.
With approximately 8% of the vote counted, Tuberville secured 86.1%, while businessman Ken McFeeters received 9%, and real estate developer Will Santivasci garnered 4.9%.
McFeeters alleged that Tuberville failed to meet the constitutional requirement of living continuously in Alabama for seven years prior to running for governor. The state GOP dismissed the claim, and on Monday, an Alabama judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by McFeeters without prejudice.
Tuberville stated his official home address was in Auburn and described the residency challenge as “ridiculous.”
The November general election will feature a rematch of Alabama’s 2020 U.S. Senate race between Tuberville and former Senator Doug Jones, who won a special election in 2017 to fill the seat vacated after Jeff Sessions became attorney general during President Donald Trump’s first term.
In that 2020 Senate contest, Tuberville defeated Jones by a margin of 20 percentage points (60.1% to 39.7%).
According to DecisionDesk HQ, Jones defeated five other Democratic challengers in Tuesday’s race with 79% of the vote after about 17% of the ballots were counted.
