The district is one of several Democratic-leaning districts across the South that were reshaped to favor Republicans following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that severely weakened the Voting Rights Act. Democrat Terri Sewell, Alabama’s other Black representative, is unopposed and is expected to keep her 7th Congressional District seat in the fall. Figures made history two years agoFigures won the seat in 2024 after years of litigation under the Voting Rights Act. The court said there should be a second Alabama district where Black people are a majority or near-majority. The district’s Black voting age population dropped from 48% to 40% after it was redrawn.