Democratic
Maurice Mercer
Major-party general-election nominee.
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Alabama District 6 election, 2026
Maurice Mercer vs. Gary Palmer on a newly enacted 2026 district map.
VotePredictor forecast
Gary Palmer favored
Safe R · predicted margin R+44.4
100%
chance to win
2024 presidential lean
R+35.02026 national environment
D+6.3Model uncertainty
±6.9 pointsFundamentals model using district presidential lean, incumbency and the national environment. It is not a poll average.
Republican
Gary Palmer
Incumbent representative for AL-6. Voting record, ideology and biography →
Polls
No district-level 2026 general-election poll is currently in VotePredictor's verified polling feed for AL-6. The forecast above uses fundamentals only.
Other forecasts
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Candidate news
Stampede of GOP blunders has achieved the unimaginable — given Dems a grasp on Alabama
There’s a hypothesis I can’t shake after years of observations.Alabama Republicans are getting bad at politics.So far, that hasn’t threatened their hegemony. The party controls all state offices; holds seven of the state’s nine congressional seats and enjoys …
Raw Story · July 27, 2026
“You Will Kill Me”: Protester Dragged Out as GOP Debates Medicaid Cuts
Republicans contending with the prospective damage of their Medicaid cuts have decided to simply brush the protests of their constituents as “misinformation.” Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee went back and forth Tuesday on who exactly would…
The New Republic · May 13, 2025
Congress has questions about 23andMe bankruptcy
Leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce said they are investigating how 23andMe’s bankruptcy might affect customers’ data. Representatives Brett Guthrie, Gus Bilirakis, and Gary Palmer (all Republicans) sent a letter Thursday to the genetic test…
Biztoc.com · April 20, 2025
Congress has questions about 23andMe bankruptcy
3The leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce said they are investigating how 23andMe’s bankruptcy might affect customers’ data. Representatives Brett Guthrie, Gus Bilirakis, and Gary Palmer (all Republicans) sent a letter Thursday to the genetic…
Biztoc.com · April 19, 2025
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