Sheriff Paul Burch won a new term with 51.4% and the $82 million road program passed with 63.6%. Unofficial Mobile County results with all precincts counted.
Updated Nov. 14: The Probate Court’s results page last updated at 4:45 p.m. Nov. 10, with all 80 precincts plus absentee and provisional ballots and 128,815 ballots cast. The results are still unofficial until the state certifies them. Burch had 65,270 votes, or 51.42%, to Laffitte’s 61,662, a margin of 3,608. The Pay-As-You-Go program passed 71,272 to 40,780, or 63.61% for. Local Amendment 1 passed 91,628 to 21,803, or 80.78% yes. The figures below and the chart are from election night.
Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch won a new term Nov. 3, and voters approved the county’s $82 million Pay-As-You-Go road and bridge program by almost 2-to-1.
The figures are unofficial. They come from the Mobile County Probate Court’s election results page, which last updated at 11:49 p.m. Tuesday with 79 of 80 precincts reported. The court counted 127,782 ballots and put average turnout at 41.44% in the precincts reported. The state certifies the official results.
Sheriff
Burch, the Republican, had 64,937 votes, or 51.57%. Democrat Pamela J. Laffitte had 60,984 votes, or 48.43%. The margin was 3,953 votes.
It was the closest two-candidate race on the Mobile County ballot. Revenue Commissioner Kim Hastie ran unopposed.
The road program passes
The Pay-As-You-Go question was the last item on the ballot. It passed 70,890 to 40,299, or 63.76% for.
The program covers 39 road and bridge projects across the county. About $30.9 million of it goes to streets inside the city of Mobile, including rebuilds of Dauphin Street and Michigan Avenue. Our earlier story lists every Mobile project and its cost.
The ballot question was worded as permission to issue up to $82 million in bonds, repaid at $8.2 million a year from 2030 through 2039. It also lets the county keep levying the existing 6.5-mill road tax to pay them, according to the county’s sample ballot. The Mobile County Commission said the program needs no new taxes and no new debt.
This was the 21st Pay-As-You-Go list since 1977. Voters approved all 20 before it, the commission said.
Mobile County’s tax break for seniors
Local Amendment 1 applies only in Mobile County. It passed with 80.85% yes, 90,998 to 21,554.
The sample ballot says it lets a qualified taxpayer 65 or older claim a senior property tax exemption on real property “under certain conditions.” It also raises the income limit for certain homestead exemptions to $50,000. It was proposed by Act 2026-258 of the Legislature.
Board of education
Two seats on the Mobile County Board of Education were contested:
- District 3: Democrat Reginald Crenshaw had 15,052 votes (73.86%). Independent Meika Gordon Gardner had 5,326.
- District 4: Democrat Sherry Dillihay McDade had 17,425 votes (72.24%). Republican Michael Fasano had 6,695.
Legislature
Four Mobile County legislative seats were contested:
- House District 99: Democrat Sam Jones, 11,734 (74.91%), to Republican Charlie Watts, 3,930.
- House District 101: Republican Chris Pringle, 8,129 (59.01%), to Democrat Joan Friedlander, 5,646.
- Senate District 22: Republican Terry L. Waters, 3,310 (66.95%), to Democrat Ashley Sharpe, 1,634.
Every other Mobile County House and Senate seat on the ballot had one candidate. All legislative figures here are Mobile County votes only.
How Mobile County voted in statewide races
These are Mobile County’s votes only. They do not tell you who won statewide. The Alabama Secretary of State posts statewide results.
| Race | Democrat | Republican |
|---|---|---|
| Governor | Doug Jones, 69,263 (54.6%) | Tommy Tuberville, 57,590 (45.4%) |
| U.S. Senate | Everett Wess, 65,956 (52.01%) | Barry Moore, 60,848 (47.99%) |
| U.S. House, 1st District | Clyde Jones, 65,746 (51.83%) | Jerry Carl, 61,107 (48.17%) |
| Lieutenant governor | Phillip Ensler, 66,252 (52.3%) | John Wahl, 60,433 (47.7%) |
| Attorney general | Jeff McLaughlin, 65,242 (51.59%) | Katherine Robertson, 61,223 (48.41%) |
Mobile County voters also said yes to all four statewide constitutional amendments:
- Amendment 1 (filling a lieutenant governor vacancy and legislative pay and travel): 70.04% yes
- Amendment 2 (a process to merge neighboring county school systems): 57.17% yes
- Amendment 3 (Pledge of Allegiance each school day and student-led prayer policies): 62.21% yes
- Amendment 4 (weekly performance of the national anthem in public schools): 56.22% yes
What it means for you
- No new road tax. The Pay-As-You-Go program runs on the 6.5-mill tax already on your bill. Approval starts design work, not construction, and projects usually take several years, the commission said. We track live work on our road construction and closures page.
- Seniors, watch for exemption details. Local Amendment 1 sets the rules in the constitution. The Mobile County Revenue Commission handles exemptions. Our property taxes page explains how homestead exemptions work.
- These numbers can still move. One precinct was outstanding at the last update, and provisional ballots are counted after Election Day. Our voting page has the results links and what comes next.
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