County voters to decide between Jacobs and Monroe in Tuesday runoff election
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Randolph County voters will get their final say in who they want to be their next elected official in the Alabama State House of Representatives when polls open Tuesday at 7 a.m. for the Republican primary runoff election.
Randolph County Schools Superintendent John Jacobs and Five Points mayor Jeff Monroe battled to a near dead-heat among county voters in the primary election last month, with Monroe edging Jacobs by just 30 votes among county voters. Voters in Randolph, Chambers and Lee Counties combined to give Monroe the overall edge in the primary as he drew 38.3 percent of the vote to Jacobs’s 34.7 percent district wide.
The question will be how will former candidate Donna McKay’s 2,149 votes – or 27 percent of the vote – be dispersed among the two remaining candidates? McKay was the odd person out in the three-way race in the primary as Jacobs and Monroe survived to reach the runoff.
This is how voters split among the three House District 37 candidates in May, district-wide. Monroe and Jacobs will be on the ballot in Tuesday’s runoff election.
The candidates are seeking the Republican nomination in the race for the District 37 House of Representatives seat currently held by the retiring Bob Fincher. The winner will face Roanoke resident Michelle French, who ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination for the seat.
That’s one of six races that will appear on Tuesday’s Republican ballot in Randolph County.
The sample ballot for the Republican runoff in Randolph County can be found here: https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/sample-ballots/2026/prr/Randolph%20-%20Rep.pdf
The Democratic runoff will feature just one race in the county, the battle for the nomination for the US Senate seat left vacant by Tommy Tuberville’s run for governor.
The sample ballot for the Democratic runoff in Randolph County can be found here: https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/sample-ballots/2026/prr/Randolph%20-%20Dem.pdf
