Alabama's 3rd congressional district

Coordinates: 32°57′45.31″N 85°36′59.24″W / 32.9625861°N 85.6164556°W

Alabama's 3rd congressional district
Alabama's 3rd congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Current Representative		Mike Rogers (R–Anniston)
Area	7,988 mi^2 (20,688 km^2)
Distribution	53.3% urban, 46.7% rural
Population (2000)	635,300
Median income	$30,806
Ethnicity	64.9% White, 32.2% Black, 0.6% Asian, 1.2% Hispanic, 0.3% Native American, 0.8% other
Occupation	33.1% blue collar, 51.7% white collar, 15.2% gray collar
Cook PVI	R+16[1]

Alabama's 3rd congressional district is a United States congressional district in Alabama that elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives. It is based in east central Alabama and encompasses portions of Montgomery and the entirety of Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Lee, Macon, Randolph, Russell, St. Clair, Talladega, and Tallapoosa counties.

The district takes in some of the city of Montgomery. Other cities in the district include Talladega, Tuskegee and Auburn. At the federal level, the district is fairly Republican-leaning, albeit not as strongly as many of the other districts in the state. John McCain carried the district in 2008 with 56.21% of the vote while Barack Obama clinched 43.04% of the vote.

The district is currently represented by Republican Mike Rogers and was once represented by Bob Riley, the former Governor of Alabama.

Voting

Election results from statewide races
Year	Office	Results
2012	President	Romney 62 - 37%
2008	President	McCain 56 - 43%
2004	President	Bush 58 - 41%
2000	President	Bush 52 - 47%

List of representatives

A visual representation of party control of Alabama's 3rd Congressional District. The district first elected a member for the 18th congress.

Congress	Representative	Party	Years	Notes
District created March 4, 1823
18th	George W. Owen	Jacksonian D-R	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825
19th-20th		Jacksonian	March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829
21st-2nd	Dixon H. Lewis	Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1833	Redistricted to the 4th district
23rd	Samuel W. Mardis	Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835	Redistricted from the 2nd district
24th-25th	Joab Lawler	Whig	March 4, 1835 – May 8, 1838	Died
25th-26th	George W. Crabb	Whig	September 4, 1838 – March 3, 1841
27th	District inactive, all representatives elected At-large on a general ticket
28th	Dixon H. Lewis	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – April 22, 1844	Redistricted from the At-large district, resigned after being elected to the US Senate
28th-29th	William L. Yancey	Democratic	December 2, 1844 – September 1, 1846	Resigned
29th	James La Fayette Cottrell	Democratic	December 7, 1846 – March 3, 1847
30th-33rd	Sampson W. Harris	Democratic	March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1855	Redistricted to the 7th district
34th-35th	James F. Dowdell	Democratic	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859	Redistricted from the 7th district
36th	David Clopton	Democratic	March 4, 1859 – January 21, 1861	Withdrew
37th-39th	1861–1868			Civil War and Reconstruction
40th	Benjamin W. Norris	Republican	July 21, 1868 – March 3, 1869
41st	Robert S. Heflin	Republican	March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1871
42nd	William Handley	Democratic	March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873
43rd	Charles Pelham	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875
44th	Taul Bradford	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877
45th	Jeremiah N. Williams	Democratic	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879	Redistricted from the 2nd district
46th	William J. Samford	Democratic	March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881
47th-53rd	William C. Oates	Democratic	March 4, 1881 – November 5, 1894	Resigned after being elected Governor
53rd-54th	George Paul Harrison, Jr.	Democratic	November 6, 1894 – March 3, 1897
55th-63rd	Henry D. Clayton	Democratic	March 4, 1897 – May 25, 1914	Resigned to accept position as a US judge for the Middle and Northern District of Alabama
63rd	William O. Mulkey	Democratic	June 29, 1914 – March 3, 1915
64th-77th	Henry B. Steagall	Democratic	March 4, 1915 – November 22, 1943	Died
78th-87th	George W. Andrews	Democratic	March 14, 1944 – January 3, 1963	Redistricted to the At-large district
88th	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965			District inactive, all representatives elected At-large on a general ticket
89th-91st	George W. Andrews	Democratic	January 3, 1965 – December 25, 1971	Redistricted from the At-large district, Died
92nd	Elizabeth B. Andrews	Democratic	April 4, 1972 – January 3, 1973
93rd-100th	Bill Nichols	Democratic	January 3, 1973 – December 25, 1988	Redistricted from the 4th district, Died
101st-104th	Glen Browder	Democratic	April 4, 1989 – January 3, 1997
105th-107th	Bob Riley	Republican	January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2003
108th-114th	Mike D. Rogers	Republican	January 3, 2003–present

Election results

2002

Alabama's 3rd Congressional District House Election, 2002
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Mike D. Rogers	91,169	50.31%
	Democratic	Joe Turnham	87,351	48.20%
	Libertarian	George Crispin	2,565	1.42%
	Write-in	Write-ins	138	0.08%
Majority			3,818	3.11%
Total votes			181,223	100.00
	Republican hold

2004

Alabama's 3rd Congressional District House Election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Mike D. Rogers*	150,411	61.20%
	Democratic	Bill Fuller	95,240	38.75%
	Write-in	Write-ins	133	0.05%
Majority			55,171	22.45%
Total votes			245,784	100.00
	Republican hold

2006

Alabama's 3rd Congressional District House Election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Mike D. Rogers*	98,257	59.44%
	Democratic	Greg Pierce	63,559	38.45%
	Independent	Mark Layfield	3,414	2.07%
	Write-in	Write-ins	71	0.04%
Majority			34,698	20.99%
Total votes			165,301	100.00
	Republican hold

2008

Alabama's 3rd Congressional District House Election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Mike D. Rogers*	142,708	54.03%
	Democratic	Joshua Segall	121,080	45.84%
	Write-in	Write-ins	332	0.13%
Majority			21,628	8.19%
Total votes			264,120	100.00
	Republican hold

2010

Alabama's 3rd Congressional District House Election, 2010
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Mike D. Rogers*	117,698	59.49%
	Democratic	Steve Segrest	80,155	40.51%
Majority			37,543	18.98%
Total votes			197,853	100.00
	Republican hold

2012

Alabama's 3rd Congressional District House Election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Mike D. Rogers*	174,986	64.12%
	Democratic	John Andrew Harris	97,910	35.88%
Majority			77,076	28.24%
Total votes			272,896	100.00
	Republican hold

2014

Alabama's 3rd Congressional District House Election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Mike D. Rogers*	103,558	66.1%	+2.0%
	Democratic	Jesse Smith	52,816	33.7%	-2.1%
Majority			50,742	33.1%	+4.1
Total votes			156,620	100.00
	Republican hold

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Living former Members

As of April 2015, there are three former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 3rd congressional district that are currently living.

Representative	Term in office	Date of birth (and age)
Glen Browder	1989 - 1997	January 15, 1943
Bob Riley	1997 - 2003	October 3, 1944

External links

• CNN coverage of the 2006 election
• CNN coverage of the 2004 election
• CNN coverage of the 2002 election
• CNN coverage of the 2000 election

Historical district boundaries

2003 - 2013

See also

• Alabama's congressional districts
• List of United States congressional districts

References

1. "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-10.
2. http://ballotpedia.org/Alabama%27s_3rd_Congressional_District_elections,_2014

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present