Qualifying has ended and the field of candidates is set for the city of Northport’s Aug. 26 municipal election. Four candidates have qualified in the mayor’s race. The winner will succeed John Hinton, who decided not to run for a full term.

Ensler won the seat in 2022 against Republican Charlotte Meadows with 60% of votes, according to election results. The seat had been held by Republicans since 2002, according to election records. It was the first Democratic flip of a Republican-held seat in the Alabama Legislature since 2010.

Myrex and Hollingsworth will face each other in a runoff on Aug. 12. The winner of the special primary runoff will face Democratic nominee Matt Glover, a 40-year-old parts manager at a poultry plan and former Good Hope City Councilman. Glover said in an interview Tuesday night he is not surprised that Hollingsworth and Myrex are in a runoff.

The Alabama House's District 13 seat is up for grabs after Matt Woods was elected to the District 5 Alabama Senate seat in a special election last month.

Candidates are already hitting the campaign trail and competing to be Alabama’s next secretary of state. The office oversees elections, serves as the

Justice Brad Mendheim announced that he will be running in the 2026 election cycle for a new term on the Alabama Supreme Court, according to a release from his office.

The city of Birmingham’s municipal election will take place on Aug. 26, and every seat from mayor to school board is up for grabs.

“My hope is that this will strengthen people’s confidence in their election system and their democracy by having some of those benchmarks and just making it very clear for folks when different results will be available,” Berman said. Al Arabiya’s ...