The Austal USA manufacturing facility will continue building warships within Alabama’s 1st congressional district, but the company’s visitor’s center is now in Alabama’s 2nd congressional district.
In downtown Mobile, museums and attractions are between the two congressional districts, depending on which side of Water Street they are on. And further south into Tillman’s Corner, the district’s boundaries split the community into two.
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Right-leaning Republican areas like Semmes, Citronelle, the Village of Spring Hill and into west Mobile are now lumped into the competitive District 2. Saraland, Satsuma, and the University of Mobile remain in highly conservative District 1.
For Mobile County, the newly approved congressional map is carving up a city and county into two distinct congressional districts for the first time in recent memory. Residents and business owners long used to inclusion in the 1st district will need to check the newly-drawn map for where they fall within the new boundaries. In many cases, the difference between voting in the two districts depends on which side of the street you are on.
Mobile’s 2nd district
The new Alabama congressional boundaries in South Alabama, dividing District 2 (red) from District 1 (gray).
Much of the city will be included in the 2nd congressional district. It will be lumped into a sprawling east-west congressional district that includes the City of Montgomery, Troy, Eufaula, Tuskegee, Greenville, Union Springs, Evergreen, and Frisco City.
“Politically, what it does, is enhances a Mobile candidate in that 2nd district,” said Steve Flowers, a longtime state political commentator and former Republican member of the Alabama State House of Representatives.
The new map, referred to as Remedial Map 3, was chosen Thursday by a three-judge federal panel to serve as Alabama’s new congressional map for the 2024 elections. The map was drawn by a court-appointed special master and creates a new purple 2nd…
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