Result
Rep. Parker Moore (R-Decatur) has won another four-year term in Alabama House District 4, defeating Democrat Hanu Karlapalem on Tuesday, Nov. 3 in his first race against a Democrat since 2018. Unofficial results show Moore with 11,042 votes, or 59.4%, to Karlapalem’s 7,552, or 40.6%.
Moore first won the seat in a 2018 special election after Republican Micky Hammon was removed from office following a guilty plea to mail fraud. In 2022, he was forced into a Republican runoff, won it with 53.7% and faced no Democrat that fall.
Candidates and Platforms
A Decatur native, Moore serves as vice chair of the House Fiscal Responsibility Committee. His campaign website highlights his votes to make Alabama more gun-friendly and a 2021 military bill it calls among the most military-friendly in the nation. This year he sponsored a law revising the criteria for state military awards and a constitutional amendment authorizing a senior property tax exemption in Morgan County.
Karlapalem, a small technology business owner who has lived in Madison for 26 years, previously ran for Madison mayor in 2016 and for the Limestone County Commission in 2018. He campaigned on lower costs, stronger public schools and health care, and repeatedly challenged Moore to debates, accusing him of staying silent on housing affordability.
District and Chamber
District 4 spans parts of Morgan, Limestone and Madison counties, including southeast Decatur, eastern Hartselle, Priceville and western Madison. 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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