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Alabama gubernatorial election, 1950

Alabama gubernatorial election, 1950
← 1946 November 7, 1950 1954 →
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Nominee Gordon Persons John S. Crowder
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 154,414 15,127
Percentage 91.08 8.92

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County results

Governor before election

Jim Folsom
Democratic

Elected Governor

Gordon Persons
Democratic


Jim Folsom
Democratic

Gordon Persons
Democratic

The 1950 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1950, to elect the Governor of Alabama. Incumbent Democrat Jim Folsom was term-limited, and could not seek a second consecutive term.

At the time this election took place, Alabama, as with most other southern states, was solidly Democratic, and the Republican Party had such diminished influence that the Democratic primary was the de facto contest for state offices.

Hamm withdrew from the primary runoff, meaning that Persons became the Democratic nominee.



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