1983Flipped from DemocraticFinal resultsIncumbent defeated
1983 election for Alabama House District 59
Alabama House of Representatives · Alabama
Lewis Spratt (Ind) won with 53.5% of the vote, defeating Jerome Tucker (D) by 18.6 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Lewis SprattIndependent · winner
53.5%1,712
Jerome TuckerDemocrat · incumbent
34.9%1,118
William WashingtonRepublican
11.6%371
3,201 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1983
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET