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Alabama Statewide Amendment 4

Requiring school policies on The Star-Spangled Banner. 2026 results by county, from Alabama's official results file: Yes 58.6%, No 41.4% statewide.

Statewide

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, to require local boards of education to adopt policies requiring each public K-12 school to broadcast or sanction the performance of the first stanza of The Star-Spangled Banner at least once per week during school hours. (Proposed by Act 2026-424)

A yes vote
A vote to adopt this amendment.
A no vote
A vote not to adopt this amendment.
Yes 58.6% No 41.4%

909,259 yes and 642,958 no.

Secretary of State's certified ballot language · State's 2026 election page

The state's unofficial totals. We don't call measures.

By county

67 counties: Yes has the most votes in 55, No has the most votes in 12. The figures for each county are from the same file and add up to the statewide totals.

CountyYesNoVotes
Autauga County64.9%35.1%18,930
Baldwin County72.4%27.6%81,154
Barbour County63.7%36.3%6,781
Bibb County74.0%26.0%5,715
Blount County79.1%20.9%16,418
Bullock County38.7%61.3%2,794
Butler County59.8%40.2%6,017
Calhoun County64.8%35.2%30,214
Chambers County62.4%37.6%9,328
Cherokee County81.0%19.0%8,019
Chilton County74.9%25.1%12,332
Choctaw County63.0%37.0%4,705
Clarke County54.7%45.3%8,499
Clay County80.8%19.2%4,165
Cleburne County84.2%15.8%3,981
Coffee County73.0%27.0%15,296
Colbert County65.5%34.5%16,874
Conecuh County58.4%41.6%4,104
Coosa County68.1%31.9%3,539
Covington County79.1%20.9%10,043
Crenshaw County72.1%27.9%4,286
Cullman County79.6%20.4%25,432
Dale County71.6%28.4%12,863
Dallas County42.5%57.5%12,169
DeKalb County75.3%24.7%17,285
Elmore County69.2%30.8%28,829
Escambia County69.1%30.9%8,426
Etowah County67.1%32.9%28,455
Fayette County79.9%20.1%5,469
Franklin County76.4%23.6%7,319
Geneva County82.6%17.4%8,496
Greene County33.6%66.4%2,802
Hale County49.6%50.4%5,198
Henry County74.9%25.1%6,193
Houston County70.8%29.2%29,628
Jackson County76.6%23.4%13,003
Jefferson County40.8%59.2%229,345
Lamar County83.9%16.1%4,087
Lauderdale County66.7%33.3%27,254
Lawrence County73.5%26.5%9,159
Lee County57.9%42.1%50,511
Limestone County60.8%39.2%37,497
Lowndes County49.5%50.5%3,824
Macon County40.6%59.4%5,716
Madison County46.6%53.4%149,907
Marengo County57.1%42.9%6,755
Marion County81.6%18.4%7,438
Marshall County75.0%25.0%24,849
Mobile County56.2%43.8%115,726
Monroe County65.8%34.2%6,724
Montgomery County43.1%56.9%73,010
Morgan County66.1%33.9%33,692
Perry County47.7%52.3%2,866
Pickens County60.9%39.1%6,412
Pike County60.0%40.0%9,064
Randolph County75.7%24.3%6,618
Russell County59.3%40.7%13,465
Shelby County57.6%42.4%82,168
St. Clair County69.9%30.1%29,603
Sumter County42.2%57.8%3,260
Talladega County58.6%41.4%22,171
Tallapoosa County69.3%30.7%13,162
Tuscaloosa County50.8%49.2%59,174
Walker County75.6%24.4%17,750
Washington County74.2%25.8%5,675
Wilcox County48.8%51.2%4,059
Winston County80.6%19.4%6,515

The share with the most votes in each place is in bold. That's the count, not a result.

Sources & scope

Alabama's official results, these figures first read Nov 12, 2:06 PM. Unofficial until certified. Alabama's page has its other statewide offices, ballot measures and legislature.