The victory gives the national Democratic Party a rare flip of a congressional seat, even if most pundits for months had anticipated a Democratic lawmaker seizing control of it.

Democratic nominee Shomari Figures won election Tuesday in Alabama’s newly drawn 2nd Congressional District in a race that could help shape the balance of power in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Associated Press called the race at 10:55 p.

Control of Congress is at stake Tuesday, with ever-tight races for the House and Senate that will determine which party holds the majority and the power to boost or block a president's agenda, or if the White House confronts a divided Capitol Hill.

Republican Caroleene Dobson has conceded the race for Alabama's newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District. Autauga County residents voted down a ballot measure to increase property taxes that would have gone toward education funding in the county.

Shomari Figures won an Alabama congressional seat in a district that was redrawn last year after the Supreme Court weighed in on the key redistricting case. The nation’s highest court ordered the state to redraw its 2nd Congressional District,