The 2014 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the

governor of Alabama A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political r ...

. Incumbent

Republican Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...

Governor

Robert J. Bentley Robert Julian Bentley (born February 3, 1943) is an American former politician and physician who served as the 53rd governor of Alabama from 2011 until 2017 upon his resignation after a sex scandal involving a political aide and subsequent a ...

ran for re-election to a second term in office. He defeated Democratic former U.S. Representative

Parker Griffith Rolf Parker Griffith Jr. (born August 6, 1942) is an American retired physician, entrepreneur and politician who served in the Alabama State Senate from 2006 to 2008 and then as the U.S. representative for from 2009 to 2011. A lifelong member o ...

in the general election. However, Bentley only served out two years of his term; he resigned in April 2017 due to a scandal and was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor

Kay Ivey Kay Ellen Ivey (born October 15, 1944) is an American politician serving as the 54th and incumbent governor of Alabama since 2017. Originally a conservative Southern Democrat, Ivey became a member of the Republican Party in 2002. She was the 38t ...

. As of 2022, this, along with the concurrent Senate election, is the last time Jefferson County has voted Republican in any statewide election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

, incumbent Governor * Stacy Lee George, former Morgan County Commissioner * Bob Starkey, retired software company owner and candidate for Mayor of Scottsboro in 2012

Declined

Tommy Battle Thomas “Tommy” Massengale Battle Jr. (born December 3, 1955) is an American businessman and politician who serves as the 67th and current mayor of Huntsville, Alabama. His first term began November 3, 2008, and he has since been reelected in ...

, Mayor of

Huntsville Huntsville is a city in Madison County, Limestone County, and Morgan County, Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Madison County. Located in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama, Huntsville is the most populous city in th ...

Bradley Byrne Bradley Roberts Byrne (born February 16, 1955) is an American business attorney and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Alabama's 1st congressional district from 2014 to 2021. Elected as a member of the state Board of Education ...

, U.S. Representative and candidate for Governor in 2010 ( ran for re-election) * David Carrington, President of the Jefferson County Commission (ran for re-election) * Beth Chapman, former

Secretary of State of Alabama The secretary of state of Alabama is one of the constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Alabama. The office actually predates the statehood of Alabama, dating back to the Alabama Territory. From 1819 to 1901, the secretary of state served ...

* Mike Hubbard, Speaker of the

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(ran for re-election) * Mary Scott Hunter, Member of the Alabama State Board of Education (ran for re-election) *

Lieutenant Governor of Alabama The lieutenant governor of Alabama is the president and presiding officer of the Alabama Senate, elected to serve a four-year term. The office was created in 1868,1868 Const. art. V, § 1 abolished in 1875,1875 Const. art. V, § 1 and recreated in ...

( ran for re-election) * Tim James, businessman, son of former Governor

Fob James Forrest Hood "Fob" James Jr. (born September 15, 1934) is an American civil engineer, entrepreneur, football player, and politician. He served as the 48th governor of Alabama, first as a Democrat, 1979–1983, and secondly as a Republican, 1995� ...

and candidate for Governor

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and

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Del Marsh Adelbert Carl "Del" Marsh (born September 2, 1956) is a former Republican member of the Alabama Senate, who represented the 12th District from 1998 until 2022. He defeated Democratic challenger Judge Wallace Wyatt in the 2010 midterm elections. ...

, President Pro Tempore of the

Alabama Senate The Alabama State Senate is the upper house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alabama. The body is composed of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state, with each district conta ...

(ran for re-election) *

Roy Moore Roy Stewart Moore (born February 11, 1947) is an American politician, lawyer, and jurist who served as the 27th and 31st chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2013 to 2017, each time being removed fro ...

, Chief Justice of the

Alabama Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices. Each justice is elected in partisan elections for staggered six-year terms. The Supreme Court is house ...

and candidate for Governor in 2006 and

Tony Petelos Tony Petelos is an Alabama politician, having served as a Alabama House of Representatives, state legislator, the mayor of Hoover, Alabama, and the county manager for Jefferson County, Alabama, Jefferson County. Political career A United States ...

, Jefferson County Manager and former Mayor of Hoover *

Bob Riley Robert Renfroe Riley (born October 3, 1944) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 52nd governor of Alabama from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he previously represented Alabama's 3rd district in the U. ...

, former

Luther Strange Luther Johnson Strange III (born March 1, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senate, United States Senator from Alabama from 2017 to 2018. He was appointed to fill that position after it was vacated by Sen. J ...

Attorney General of Alabama The Attorney General of Alabama is an elected, constitutional officer of the State of Alabama. The office of the Attorney General is located at the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. Henry Hitchcock was elected Alabama's first attorney general ...

( ran for re-election)

Polling

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

* Kevin Bass, businessman, former professional baseball player and candidate for Mayor of Fayette in 2012 *

, former U.S. Representative

Declined

Billy Beasley William M. Beasley (born March 19, 1940) is an American politician from the state of Alabama. He is a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate, representing the 28th district. Beasley graduated from Auburn University in 1962. He was elected to t ...

, state senator *

Regina Benjamin Regina Marcia Benjamin (born October 26, 1956) is an American physician and a former vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. Benjamin previously directed a n ...

, former

Surgeon General of the United States The surgeon general of the United States is the operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government of the United States. Th ...

Sue Bell Cobb Sue Bell Cobb (born March 1, 1956) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, the first woman to hold that office in Alabama's history. In 2018 she unsuccessfully ran for governor of Alabama losing in the prima ...

, former chief justice of the

Vivian Davis Figures Vivian Davis Figures (born January 24, 1957) is an American politician who is a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the Alabama Senate, representing the 33rd District in Mobile County, Alabama, Mobile County since she was elect ...

, Minority Leader of the

and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2008 *

Craig Ford Jon Craig Ford (born May 21, 1968) was an Independent member of the Alabama House of Representatives. He was the House Minority Leader from 2010 to 2016. He currently serves as mayor of Gadsden, Alabama. Personal life and education Ford gradua ...

, Minority Leader of the

* Pete Johnson, retired Jefferson County Judge * John Rogers, state representative *

Robert Vance Robert Howard Vance (born 31 March 1955) is a former New Zealand cricketer. He played in four Test matches and eight One Day Internationals for New Zealand. Vance was born into a cricketing family; his father, Bob Vance, was for many years ...

, Jefferson County Circuit Judge and nominee for Chief Justice of the

in 2012

Results

Independents

Candidates

Declined

Charles Barkley Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player who is a television analyst on TNT. Nicknamed "Sir Charles", "Chuck", and "the Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley played 16 seasons in the Natio ...

, former

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player

General election

Predictions

Polling

Results

References

External links

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