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Alabama gubernatorial election, 1954

Alabama gubernatorial election, 1954
← 1950 November 2, 1954 1958 →
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Nominee Jim Folsom Tom Abernathy
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 244,401 88,688
Percentage 73.37 26.63

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County results

Governor before election

Gordon Persons
Democratic

Elected Governor

Jim Folsom
Democratic


Gordon Persons
Democratic

Jim Folsom
Democratic

The 1954 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1954, to elect the Governor of Alabama. Incumbent Democrat Gordon Persons 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; after winning the Democratic primary it was a given you would win the general election.



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