Ballot facts
- Name as listed
- Doug Jones
- Office
- Governor of Alabama
- Party
- Democratic (as listed by the state)
- Seat
- Open seat (incumbent term-limited) · current governor: Kay Ivey
- Election
- November 3, 2026 general
- Website
- Website: www.dougjones.com
- Candidate list
- Alabama Secretary of State — State certifications of party and independent candidates, Nov. 3, 2026 General Election (Aug. 26, 2026)
Stated positions
Paraphrased neutrally from the candidate’s own published materials. Each statement is attributed (“says…”) and cited. We do not evaluate the feasibility or accuracy of promises. Every candidate in this race is summarized the same way. How we compile these.
| Topic | Summary of stated position | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Data centers | Says they will declare a one-year moratorium on data centers, with no tax breaks or nondisclosure agreements for data center companies. | Campaign website — dougjones.com/priorities Accessed October 23, 2026 |
| Cost of living | Says they will suspend the state gas tax when prices spike, eliminate the grocery tax, raise the minimum wage, and end taxes on overtime. | Campaign website — dougjones.com/priorities Accessed October 23, 2026 |
| Health care | Says they will expand Medicaid to cover more than 154,000 working Alabamians and support rural health care. | Campaign website — dougjones.com/priorities Accessed October 23, 2026 |
| Government | Proposes banning elected officials from trading individual stocks, citizen-led ballot initiatives, expanded early voting, and a state lottery put before voters. | Campaign website — dougjones.com/priorities Accessed October 23, 2026 |
Attributed to the candidate; not verified or evaluated by SaveYourState. Candidates can request a correction by pointing to their own published materials.
Campaign finance
Not yet compiled. Candidates for governor report to Alabama’s state campaign-finance office, not the FEC. Their reports are public on the official Alabama campaign-finance search.
Record in office
- Has served in the U.S. Congress: Biographical Directory entry (Bioguide ID J000300), with bills sponsored and cosponsored listed on Congress.gov. Linked by Bioguide ID from the candidate’s Wikidata item (Q30122825).
Sources
- Candidate list: Alabama Secretary of State — State certifications of party and independent candidates, Nov. 3, 2026 General Election (Aug. 26, 2026) — retrieved October 23, 2026
- Campaign website — dougjones.com/priorities — retrieved October 23, 2026
- Photo: Digital Campaign Manager Doug Jones for Senate, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Website: Confirmed by hand on 2026-10-23: page title “Doug for Alabama”; listed as Doug Jones's official website on his Wikidata item (P856)
- Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress (Bioguide ID J000300)
- Alabama campaign-finance search (official)
