Live Alabama Election Results: Roy Moore and Doug Jones Compete for Senate Seat

New York Times ^ | December 12, 2017 | MATTHEW BLOCH, NATE COHN, JOSH KATZ and JASMINE LEE

[House Atreides]

Alabama votes on Tuesday in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, now the attorney general. The last polls close at 8 p.m. Eastern. Strong support for Roy S. Moore, the Republican, is expected in rural, mostly white parts of the state and in its northern half. The Democrat, Doug Jones, aims to create a lead in the urban counties that include Birmingham and Montgomery, and across a band of largely black counties.

One critical battleground is a trio of smaller, whiter cities: Mobile, Tuscaloosa and Huntsville. Mr. Moore won a hard race in 2012 by keeping things close there. Mr. Jones hopes to win the cities by a convincing margin.

[dynoman]

It just updated.

http://www2.alabamavotes.gov/electionNight/statewideResultsByContest.aspx?ecode=1000915

[Fledermaus]

And they’ll lose the Senate in a year they could gain huge.

Here in TN ex-gov Bredesen is running for Corkers seat. He was a pretty conservative Dem gov

[Broker]

tied even aweful

[NKP_Vet]

Ingraham can’t quit laughing. She had no problem with pro abort Jones winning,

[Skooz]

Yep.

Moore 49.2 %
Jones 49.2%

The “urban” strongholds are reporting in.

[lodi90]

Write ins up to 1.6%. Chuck Schumer says thank you Senator Shelby.

[StolarStorm]

I am stunned that so many people bought into the obvious orchestrated fake accusers. Stupid soccer moms.

[SoConPubbie]

I don’t know. The Alabama GOP needs to vet their candidates seriously. In NJ where I live, I don’t think the NJ GOP would allow this.

Give me a break!

This had NOTHING to do with VETTING, and everything to do with FALSE ACCUSATIONS from a bunch of liars and the GOP-E doing their best to depress the GOP Vote.

[fortheDeclaration]

This is a crushing defeat!

[Terry Mross]

We need to completely stop voting for ALL Republicans and let the party die!

[Jet Jaguar]

Tie. Moore ahead by a few hundred votes with 85% in

[Paladin2]

Looks like a lot of Trump voters didn’t turn out....

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

COUNTED SO FAR:  86%
ROY MOORE   529,104	49.2%
DOUG JONES  528,664	49.2%

[Steven W.]

Mitchell noting Jones got a 56K vote bump (IMO ballot box dump like Chicago)

[nutmeg]

I keep holding out hope that Sessions is”working behind the scenes” and will one day produce something of value. But it’s getting harder every day.

Same here. Sessions has been a huge disappointment. Wish he was back in the Senate, and we weren't going through this misery tonight. And wish we had a real PIT BULL as AG.

[NELSON111]

Exactly! Let’s stop with “the election is being stolen before our eyes” garbage. That takes the blame away from where it CLEARLY belongs: GOPE and the democratic smear machine.

[snarkytart]

And u think if Mo Brooks is the GOP nominee in 2020 he won’t be
accused of sexual misconduct too?

The RATs now know how to divide GOP voters by playing the sexual
predator card.
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If this worked in one of the reddest states in the country it will work anywhere.

Just call this country gone. I mean people don’t even have the sense of self preservation. They choose a lefty in Alabama who will vote against the wall, and everything good Trump is trying to do.

[lowteksh]

As predicted an hour ago - Jones will win by about 20K votes or 1.5%.

Turn out the lights...

[toldyou]

Yep....

Roy Moore leads by 0.0 percentage points over Doug Jones with 85 percent of precincts fully reporting.

Roy Moore
Republican
527,231
49.2%

Doug Jones
Democrat
527,098
49.2

Total Write-Ins
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16,760

[carton253]

Thanks.