W4POLITICS, a W4USA Network resource
Free public service for Alabama votersNo candidate endorsementsGuide sources checked September 27, 2026General election November 3, 2026

Scope and limitations

What this Alabama guide covers

The ballot guide covers 10 featured federal, executive, and regulatory contests. The separate money explorer covers all 178,643 records in the October 1 nightly 2026 Alabama FCPA transaction archives, across 1,204 filing accounts.

Included

Published now

  • 20 Democratic and Republican candidates in 10 featured contests
  • Direct official ballot, certification, and identity-record links
  • 17 matched state-candidate 2026 finance summaries
  • 1 visible state finance record without a comparable aggregate
  • Separate federal summaries for both U.S. Senate candidates
  • Registration, absentee, and Election Day dates
  • Official links for 4 statewide constitutional amendments
  • 178,643 verified transaction records across 956 candidate committees and 248 PACs, with five separate money ledgers
  • Source-linked record search, contributor-state map, exact-dollar charts, and account-level ledger totals
Not included

Outside this release

  • Complete ballot rosters for six statewide judicial contests and legislative districts; their filing accounts can appear in the broader money explorer
  • U.S. House district candidates and federal totals
  • County and municipal contests
  • Political finance outside the supplied 2026 transaction-year archives, including earlier history and separately reported independent-advertising target classifications
  • Business, lobbying, contract, land, and conflict-record research
Known finance limits

1 finance summary unavailable

  • Jim Zig ZeiglerAn active committee and 2026 filings were found, but the portal omits the committee from the political-race year-summary results. W4POLITICS therefore does not present a comparable aggregate.
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Not yet published

Additional history and ballot rosters

The finance snapshot is broader than the featured ballot guide. Judicial and legislative ballot rosters, U.S. House candidates, older transaction years, and independent-advertising target analysis still need separate work.

Dataset comparison: Do not combine state datasets with different reporting windows or definitions. Alabama's five ledgers reproduce a nightly 2026 transaction-year snapshot, not a full election cycle or cash balance. Featured-race summaries retain their September 27 source-check labels.
Version record

Alabama guide 2.0

PublishedOctober 1, 2026
Contests shown10
Ballot choices20
Ballot measures4

10 featured contests, 178,643 financial records, 1,204 filing accounts, statewide charts and record search, separate Senate summaries, voter deadlines, and primary sources.

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Alabama guide publication record
VersionPublishedScope
2.0October 1, 202610 featured contests, 178,643 financial records, 1,204 filing accounts, statewide charts and record search, separate Senate summaries, voter deadlines, and primary sources.

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