Here’s who’s competing for your vote on Nov. 8 in various races.

United States Representative, 1st congressional district

Republican: Jerry Carl has served as the representative for Alabama’s first congressional district since 2021. Carl sits on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Committee on Natural Resources. He has sponsored legislation to increase oil and gas leasing and establishing the Alabama Underwater Forest National Marine Sanctuary. Carl is a native of Mobile and was a businessman in the community before running for local office. A supporter of former President Trump, Carl voted to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. More here.

Libertarian: Alexander M. Remrey is an Army veteran who lives in Daphne. As part of his platform, Remrey wants to reform the criminal justice system and ease punishment for nonviolent offenders. In addition, he wants to reform the education system and give students more options for the final two years of high school. He also wants to reform the immigration system to reduce the wait time for immigrants to receive identification. More here.

State Senate Races

District 33

Democrat: Vivian Davis Figures has served as the senator for the 33rd district since 1997, when she replaced her late husband, Michael Figures. She serves on several committees, including the Rules, Judiciary and Education Policy committee. She has sponsored legislation aimed at prohibiting wage discrimination and repealing Alabama’s abortion ban. A native of Mobile, Figures served on the Mobile City Council from 1993-1997. More here.

Republican: Pete Riehm is a Navy veteran and a commercial real estate broker. He wants to reform education to support school choice vouchers; infrastructure improvements, including expanding water and sewer improvements; creating incentives for economic development and supporting law enforcement. Riehm also serves as a Land Commissioner for the Mobile County Probate Court. More here.

District 35

Republican: David Sessions has served in the Alabama Senate since 2018. He previously represented the 105th district in the Alabama House of Representatives, a position he held from 2011 until 2018. In the Senate, he sits on several committees, including the Rules Committee, the Tourism Committee and the Agriculture Conservation and Forestry Committee. He is a sponsor of Aniah’s Law, which will also be on the ballot Tuesday. He is a co-owner of Sessions Farms and lives in Grand Bay.

Libertarian: Clifton Hudson lives in Mobile, where he works as a systems analyst for a construction company. He believes in increasing choice in education, legalizing gambling and marijuana, cutting taxes and improving efficiency in infrastructure improvements. More here.

State Representative Races

District 64

Republican: Donna Givens is a native of Baldwin County and has served on the North, Central and South Baldwin Chambers of Commerce. She has said she will prioritize education and workforce development in Baldwin County, as well as increasing broadband internet access around the county. More here.

Libertarian: Jeff May. Originally from Memphis, Tenn., May lives in Robertsdale and graduated from Baldwin County schools. He serves as the chairman of the Libertarian Party of Baldwin County. More here.

District 65

Republican: Brett Easterbrook, currently represents District 65 in the House, a position he’s held since 2018. He sits on the Education Policy, Insurance, State Government and Transportation Utilities and Infrastructure committees. Recently, he’s worked on bills to limit mandates for the coronavirus vaccine. More here.

Democrat: Marcus Caster is a native of Alabama and a graduate of the University of Mobile. He previously worked as a teacher. His listed priorities are voting rights, education, gun laws, youth empowerment and equality. He is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill regarding drawing Alabama’s congressional districts that was recently heard by the Supreme Court. More here.

District 94

Republican: Jennifer Fidler, 51, currently owns a landscape design and consulting firm. Before opening her business, she worked as the public works director for the city of Fairhope, served on the Fairhope Planning Commission and worked for the Eastern Shore Metropolitan Planning Organization. She describes herself as a “Christian conservative.” More here.

Libertarian: Margaret “Maggie” Helveston is a native of New York and a retired attorney who lives in Fairhope. She describes herself as “fiscally conservative and socially liberal.” She supports decriminalizing marijuana, school choice, abolishing the grocery tax and legalizing gambling. More here.

District 95

Republican: Frances Holk-Jones, of Foley, works as an insurance agent for State Farm. Both her father and grandfather served as mayor of Foley. She believes in supporting youth mental health, reducing the size of the government and better infrastructure. More here.

Democrat: Richard Brackner is a native of Alabama and currently lives in Gulf Shores. He is pro-abortion, wants to increase educational spending via legalizing gambling, expanding Medicaid and increasing the use of renewable energy in Alabama. More here.

District 100

Republican: Mark Shirey is an optometrist practicing in West Mobile. He describes himself as an outsider who wants to stand up for small businesses. More here.

Libertarian: Peyton Warren. No information available. More here.

District 104

Republican: Margie Wilcox has served in the Alabama House of Representatives since 2014. In the house, she serves on several committees, including the Urban and Rural Development Committee and the Transportation Utilities and Infrastructure Committee. She recently sponsored legislation increasing punishment for certain violent crimes.

Libertarian: Jon Dearman. No information available. More here.

District 105

Republican: Chip Brown is a native of south Alabama and an Army Veteran. He has served in the Alabama House of Representatives since 2018. In the house, he sits on the Rules Committee, Economic Development and Tourism Committee and the Urban and Rural Development Committee and the Insurance Committee. He recently sponsored multiple bills that limited coronavirus restrictions. More here.

Libertarian: Mark Lewis is a native of Mobile. He is in support of abolishing gas taxes and grocery taxes in Alabama, term limits for legislators, legalizing marijuana, holding a vote to legalize gambling and increased choice in education. More here.

Baldwin County Races

Baldwin County Commission:

District 4

Republican: Charles “Skip” Gruber has served on the Baldwin County Commission since 2006. He previously served as mayor of Elberta, where he still lives. He worked for the county commission for 30 years, most of that time for the county highway department. He is a native of Baldwin County. More here.

Democrat: Alec Barnett is a native of Foley, where he still lives. He is the environment chair for the Alabama State NAACP and president of the Baldwin County NAACP. More here.

Nuisance referendum

Voters in the unincorporated areas of Baldwin County will have the opportunity to vote on whether to let the Baldwin County Commission regulate health and safety issues around the county, including noise, pollution and animal control. As Alabama does not allow counties to have home rule, the county commission cannot enact any regulations of these issues right now, but the Limited Self-Governance Act allows voters to decide whether or not they want to give the commission that power.

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Mobile County Races

Mobile County District Attorney:

Republican: Keith Blackwood has worked in the Mobile County District Attorney’s office since 2008. He has said he will oppose bonds for people accused of violent crimes and support legislation for longer prison sentences for violent offenders. More here.

Democrat: Moshae Donald is a native of Mobile and currently works as a municipal court and family law attorney. She has worked as both a prosecutor and public defender and has worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. She has promised to clear the backlog of cases created by the coronavirus pandemic, create a fentanyl task force, decline to prosecute marijuana offenses and expand diversion and rehabilitation programs. She has also said she will not enforce Alabama’s abortion ban. More here.

District Court Judge, Place No. 5

Democrat: Jackie Brown is a family and criminal law attorney in Mobile. A former social worker, Brown currently serves as a mentor with the Strickland Youth Center. She has also been appointed by the current Mobile County Circuit Court judge for juvenile justice to represent parents, children and serve as Guardian Ad Litem for youth in the Strickland Youth Center. She is a native of New Orleans and a graduate of the Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law. More here.

Republican: Linda Collins Jensen has served as the Mobile County Juvenile Court referee since 2010. She has also worked as a family and juvenile lawyer and served as a special child abuse prosecutor in the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office. She founded the Mobile County Juvenile Court Girls Leadership Program to mentor young women on probation in 2011. She is a native of Mobile. More here.

Mobile County Sheriff

Democrat: Labarron Perkins is a native of Mobile and a businessman in the community. More here.

Republican: Paul Burch is a native of Mobile and has worked for both the Mobile Police Department and the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office. He says his primary goal as sheriff will be to work on crime prevention and criminal apprehension. More here.

Libertarian: Charles Wyckoff is a former member of the Mobile County Sherriff’s Office and currently runs a construction company. His priorities are upholding both the U.S. Constitution and the Alabama State Constitution, equal justice and upholding the Second Amendment. More here.

Local Amendment 1: Voters in Mobile County will decide whether to amend the Alabama Constitution to create a judicial nominating commission for the county. If the amendment is passed, a commission will be instructed to fill vacancies in the offices of judge of circuit court and judge of district court of Mobile County. The amendment is sponsored by state Senators Williams, Figures and Sessions. More here.

Special County Election: Voters in Mobile County will decide whether to allow Mobile County to issue bonds, no more than $69 million, to pay for construction of roads, bridges and drainage projects through the Pay-as-you-go program. To pay for these bonds, the county will continue to levy a property tax of 6.5 mills for every dollar of the assessed value of the property.