A special election for Alabama's 1st congressional district was held following the resignation of Jo Bonner on August 2, 2013, to become vice chancellor for the University of Alabama.[1] Primary elections were held on September 24. A runoff in the Republican primary took place on November 5 and the general election was pushed back to December 17.[2] Republican Bradley Byrne won the election by a wide margin in the strongly conservative district.[3]
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Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size |
Margin of error |
Bradley Byrne |
Daniel Dyas |
Chad Fincher |
Wells Griffith |
Quin Hillyer |
Jessica James |
Sharon Powe |
David Thornton |
Dean Young |
Undecided |
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Cygnal | September 17–18, 2013 | 716 | ± 3.64% | 34% | 2% | 14.9% | 8.3% | 9.1% | 0.7% | 1.1% | 0.3% | 12.1% | 17.5% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bradley Byrne | 18,090 | 34.57% | |
Republican | Dean Young | 12,011 | 22.95% | |
Republican | Chad Fincher | 8,177 | 15.63% | |
Republican | Quin Hillyer | 7,260 | 13.87% | |
Republican | Wells Griffith | 5,758 | 11.00% | |
Republican | Daniel Dyas | 391 | 0.75% | |
Republican | Jessica James | 391 | 0.75% | |
Republican | Sharon Powe | 184 | 0.35% | |
Republican | David Thornton | 72 | 0.14% | |
Total votes | 52,344 | 100.00% |
Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size |
Margin of error |
Bradley Byrne |
Dean Young |
Other | Undecided |
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Cygnal | October 30, 2013 | 1,027 | ± 3.03% | 40.2% | 43.2% | — | 16.6% |
Wenzel Strategies | October 6–8, 2013 | 412 | ± ?% | 44% | 37% | — | 19% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bradley Byrne | 38,150 | 52.5% | |
Republican | Dean Young | 34,534 | 47.5% | |
Total votes | 72,684 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Burton LeFlore | 3,129 | 70.2% | |
Democratic | Lula Albert-Kaigler | 1,328 | 29.8% | |
Total votes | 4,457 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bradley Byrne | 36,042 | 71.0 | |
Democratic | Burton LeFlore | 14,968 | 29.0 | |
Total votes | 51,010 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |