Published: Wednesday, November 03, 2010, 12:34 AM ??? Updated: Wednesday, November 03, 2010, 12:52 AM
Election 2010 results:?
??State Rep. Robert Bentley, R-Tuscaloosa, defeated Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks to become the next Alabama governor.
??Republican Kay Ivey defeated Democratic Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr. in his bid for a fourth term. Ivey is finishing her second term as state treasurer. She didn't immediately claim victory and Folsom didn't concede, but the size of her lead made it impossible for Folsom to catch up, based on the unofficial count.
?? Republican Luther Strange defeated Democrat James Anderson in the race for Alabama attorney general.
Strange, 57, of Birmingham, campaigned on a pledge to fight public corruption and restore integrity to an office held since 2004 by Republican Troy King.
Strange outraised and outspent Anderson by a substantial margin in a race marked by sharp differences between the two candidates across a range of legal issues facing the state.
?? In other state races, Republican Beth Chapman was re-elected as secretary of state; state auditor Samantha Shaw was re-elected; Republican John McMillan was elected Agriculture Commissioner; Republican Young Boozer was elected state treasurer, and Republicans Twinkle Cavanaugh and Terry Dunn were elected to the Public Service Commission.
?? Republicans won all three Supreme Court seats. Kelli Wise won Place 1 and incumbents Mike Bolin and Tom Parker both won re-election. ?Civil Appeals Court Judge Tommy Bryan was also re-elected.
How did your district vote? We've got the breakdowns.
??U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile,?handily beat third-party candidate David Walter and will represent Alabama’s 1st Congressional District for a fifth term.?
Bonner had no Democratic challengers for the seat, which has been in Republican hands since 1965, but he did face opposition from two fellow conservatives. Walter ran on the Constitution Party ticket, and Bonner beat Orange Beach developer Peter Gounares in the June 1 Republican primary.?
?? In local legislative races, incumbent state Reps. James Buskey and Yvonne Kennedy both won re-election; Democrat Napoleon Bracy was elected to the House District 98 seat, and incumbent senators Ben Brooks, R-Mobile and Vivian Figures, D-Mobile, won re-election.
??Former city councilwoman Bess Rich won Mobile's District 6 seat Tuesday night, defeating businessman Reid Cummings.
District 6 covers southwest Mobile and is roughly bordered by Old Shell Road on the north and University Boulevard on the east. The seat was vacated by Connie Hudson late this summer after she was elected to the Mobile County Commission.
??Ashley Rich, a county prosecutor who campaigned on her experience in the courtroom, won the Mobile County district attorney's seat. Rich, a Republican, defeated her opponent Don Foster, a Democrat and former U.S. attorney in Mobile. Rich has worked in the District Attorney’s Office for 14 years. She has lead the murder prosecution team there since 2002.
??Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran won a second term in office, defeating Democratic challenger Will Johnson.
Cochran, 55, a Republican, was appointed sheriff in mid-2006 by Gov. Bob Riley after former-Sheriff Jack Tillman pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of perjury and an ethics violation. Voters later that same year elected Cochran.
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