Result
Rep. Thomas “Action” Jackson (D-Thomasville) has won another four-year term in Alabama House District 68, beating Republican Fred Kelley on Tuesday, Nov. 3 in a rematch of their 2022 race. Unofficial results show Jackson with 9,839 votes, or 57.3%, to Kelley’s 7,343, or 42.7%.
That is a much wider margin than four years ago, when Jackson edged Kelley with 51.5% of the vote. The 77-year-old Jackson has represented the district since 1994, and an Alabama Political Reporter column this fall described him as a lawmaker whom residents across party lines call with their problems.
Candidates and Platforms
Jackson is an associate pastor in the Church of God in Christ and a former director of the Upward Bound program at Alabama Southern Community College. His campaign has focused on keeping rural hospitals open, including backing a grant fund for them, and on property tax relief for seniors. This year he sponsored a local constitutional amendment authorizing a senior property tax exemption in Clarke County, along with a bill on annexation for the City of Monroeville.
Kelley, a Monroeville resident, works as a marketing and safety director and has also worked as a master pipe fitter, commercial pilot and commercial truck driver. When he first ran in 2022, he described himself as a political newcomer offering himself to voters “as a blank slate.”
District and Chamber
District 68 includes all or part of Clarke, Conecuh, Marengo, Monroe, Perry and Wilcox counties. Statewide, Democrats picked up two Alabama House seats on Nov. 3, but Republicans kept their supermajority with a 74-31 edge in the 105-seat chamber.
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