Terri A. Sewell
AL-7What the Signal reads
Sewell is the Democratic incumbent, defending a seat the Signal rates Safe D. The market has Sewell at 99.8¢ against Akin's 1.5¢, up 3.4¢ since August 3. Sewell leads 13 to 1 in money raised.
The market
This contract settles on whether a Democrat holds the seat, not on Terri A. Sewell by name.
14,364 traded · 4,117 open. Prices are the yes ask; sides may not sum to 100.Checked 2:09 PM ET
Sewell v Akin
Metric by metricThe 2026 race
Alabama 7th District2024 general election · previous district lines, won by Terri A. Sewell.
Raised 2025 to 2026, through July 22.
THEIR SEAT WAS REDRAWND+23.4 → D+17.8
Alabama is going back to the map its legislature passed in 2023. A court-drawn map was used in 2024; on June 2, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court paused a lower-court order blocking the 2023 map, so the state's own map is in use this cycle. It becomes somewhat less Democratic, going from Harris +23.4 to Harris +17.8 in the 2024 presidential vote.