text: , there are a total of 3,707,233 registered voters, with 3,318,679 active, and the others inactive in the state.The 2023 American Values Atlas by Public Religion Research Institute found that a majority of Alabama residents support same-sex marriage.Elections State elections With the disfranchisement of Blacks in 1901, the state became part of the "Solid South", a system in which the Democratic Party operated as effectively the only viable political party in every Southern state.For nearly a hundred years local and state elections in Alabama were decided in the Democratic Party primary, with generally only token Republican challengers running in the general election.Since the mid- to late 20th century, however, white conservatives started shifting to the Republican Party.In Alabama, majority-white districts are now expected to regularly elect Republican candidates to federal, state and local office.Members of the nine seats on the Supreme Court of Alabama and all ten seats on the state appellate courts are elected to office.Until 1994, no Republicans held any of the court seats.In that general election, the then-incumbent chief justice, Ernest C.Hornsby, refused to leave office after losing the election by approximately 3,000 votes to Republican Perry O.Hooper Sr.Hornsby sued Alabama and defiantly remained in office for nearly a year before finally giving up the seat after losing in court.The Democrats lost the last of the nineteen court seats in August 2011 with the resignation of the last Democrat on the bench.In the early 21st century, Republicans hold all seven of the statewide elected executive branch offices.Republicans hold six of the eight elected seats on the Alabama State Board of Education.In 2010, Republicans took large majorities of both chambers of the state legislature, giving them control of that body for the first time in 136 years.