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Live Alabama Election Results: Roy Moore and Doug Jones Compete for Senate Seat
By MATTHEW BLOCH, NATE COHN, JOSH KATZ and JASMINE LEE
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Roy Moore leads by 5 percentage points over Doug Jones with 72 percent of precincts fully reporting. Jump to estimate of final result ?
Candidate Party Votes Pct.
| Roy Moore | Republican | 418,463 | 51.7% |
| | Doug Jones | Democrat | 379,327 | 46.9 |
| | Total Write-Ins | — | 11,607 | 1.4 |
| 72% reporting (1,604 of 2,220 precincts)
Alabama voted on Tuesday in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, now the attorney general. Strong support for Roy S. Moore, the Republican, is expected in rural, mostly white parts of the state and in its northern half. The Democrat, Doug Jones, aims to create a lead in the urban counties that include Birmingham and Montgomery, and across a band of largely black counties.
One critical battleground is a trio of smaller, whiter cities: Mobile, Tuscaloosa and Huntsville. Mr. Moore won a hard race in 2012 by keeping things close there. Mr. Jones hopes to win the cities by a convincing margin.
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