Federal candidate · 2025–2026 cycle

Gary J. Palmer

Official portrait of Gary J. Palmer
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. representative for Alabama’s 6th district
Party
Republican
Hometown
Hoover, AL
Born
1954
In Congress
House since 2015 · 11 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
FEC filing name
PALMER, GARY
Next election
General November 3, 2026 (Wikipedia, checked October 22, 2026; confirm with your state election office)
Map of Alabama with the current district highlighted

Alabama, District 6

Biographical details from congress-legislators (CC0) and the House Clerk, retrieved October 23, 2026.

RepublicanU.S. House · Alabama District 6IncumbentGeneral-election nominee

FEC candidate ID H4AL06098 · Principal campaign committee: GARY PALMER FOR CONGRESS

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. House · Alabama District 6$1,154,752.83General-election nominee
2023–2024U.S. House · Alabama District 6$1,728,601.16Won the general election (70.3%)
2021–2022U.S. House · Alabama District 6$1,278,902.76Won the general election (83.73%)
2019–2020U.S. House · Alabama District 6$919,678.33Won the general election (97.1%)
Total raised$1,154,752.83
Total spent$1,233,609.92
Cash on hand$74,382.23
Debts owed by the campaign$0.00
Loans from the candidate$0.00

2025–2026 cycle totals through October 14, 2026, from the FEC’s candidate summary file. This is a dated snapshot, not live reporting; the FEC’s page for this candidate is the official source.

Where the money comes from

Individual contributions: $588,818.46PACs and other committees: $526,500.00Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $32,149.97Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $7,284.40
  • Individual contributions$588,818.4651%
  • PACs and other committees$526,500.0046%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$32,149.973%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$7,284.401%

Individual money

  • Contributions of $200 or less (small-dollar, including unitemized)$2,283.140%
  • Contributions over $200$563,140.62100%
  • Itemized from inside Alabama$427,579.5776%
  • Itemized from other states$136,975.7324%

Top out-of-state sources of itemized individual money: Texas $45,000.00 · Florida $30,000.00 · Georgia $15,225.73 · Virginia $10,500.00 · District of Columbia $7,500.00. States with fewer than 10 contributions are not listed.

FEC-computed totals by contribution size and state, retrieved October 22, 2026. No individual contributor is named.

Raised and spent over time

$368K$0 APRIL QUARTERLY: raised $69,280.46APRIL QUARTERLY: spent $66,533.69JULY QUARTERLY: raised $245,592.72JULY QUARTERLY: spent $104,549.90OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $52,788.85OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $119,773.64YEAR-END: raised $147,501.75YEAR-END: spent $73,483.50APRIL QUARTERLY: raised $193,414.20APRIL QUARTERLY: spent $129,695.15PRE-PRIMARY: raised $75,008.56PRE-PRIMARY: spent $86,657.15JULY QUARTERLY: raised $227,979.03JULY QUARTERLY: spent $326,450.98PRE-PRIMARY: raised $42,000.00PRE-PRIMARY: spent $38,939.48OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $84,562.26OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $241,299.942025-032025-092026-032026-062026-09

Raised per report Spent per report Cash on hand

Voting record, 119th Congress

Roll-call votes while serving674
Voted yea524
Voted nay142
Did not vote8 of 674
Bills and resolutions sponsored16
Sponsored that became law1
Cosponsored156

Recorded House roll-call votes from January 3, 2025 through September 16, 2026, the latest vote on record for this member. Each vote links to the official House Clerk record.

Latest roll-call votes

DateQuestionResultVote
Sep 16, 2026On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · S 2403
Retire through Ownership Act
PassedYea
Sep 16, 2026On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · HR 9497
Water Resources Development Act
PassedYea
Sep 16, 2026On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · HR 9340
Ratepayer Protection Act
PassedYea
Sep 16, 2026On Passage · HJRES 213
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the “California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbo
PassedYea
Sep 16, 2026On Passage · HR 10326
PROOF Act
PassedYea
Sep 16, 2026On Passage · HR 9576
National Fraud Enforcement Division Act
PassedYea
Sep 16, 2026On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments · HR 5334
An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood educators to take the educator expense deduction, and for other purposes
PassedYea
Sep 15, 2026On Agreeing to the Resolution · HCONRES 93
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran
PassedNay
Sep 15, 2026On Passage · HJRES 210
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Ocean-Going Vesse
PassedYea
Sep 15, 2026On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · HR 9500
Tax Relief for Fraud Victims Act
PassedYea

Latest bills and resolutions sponsored

  • H.J.Res. 211 Providing congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "California State Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Standards; Notice of Decision Granting a Waiver of Clean Air Act Preemption for California's 2009 and Subsequent Model Year Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards for New Motor Vehicles".
    Introduced Aug 6, 2026 · Latest action Aug 6, 2026: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
  • H.R. 9617 CHARM Act
    Introduced Jul 9, 2026 · Latest action Sep 16, 2026: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
  • H.R. 8467 ZOMBIE Act
    Introduced Apr 23, 2026 · Latest action Jun 11, 2026: Received in the Senate.
  • H.R. 7934 Settlement Agreement Information Database Act of 2026
    Introduced Mar 16, 2026 · Latest action Mar 18, 2026: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 40 - 0.
  • H.R. 6373 Air Permitting Improvements to Protect National Security Act of 2025
    Introduced Dec 3, 2025 · Latest action Apr 28, 2026: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 544.
  • H.R. 6102 Citizen Ballot Protection Act
    Introduced Nov 18, 2025 · Latest action Nov 18, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
  • H.R. 4609 To extend the authority to carry out the Defense Production Act of 1950.
    Introduced Jul 22, 2025 · Latest action Jul 22, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
  • H.R. 4370 SAMS Act of 2025
    Introduced Jul 14, 2025 · Latest action Jul 14, 2025: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Foreign Affairs, Transportation and Infr…
  • H.R. 2953 ALERT Act
    Introduced Apr 17, 2025 · Latest action Apr 17, 2025: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined b…
  • H.R. 2793 Retirement Freedom Act
    Introduced Apr 9, 2025 · Latest action Apr 9, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Counts of the public record only; TerraCivic does not rate members or judge their votes. Votes: Voteview (Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/). Bills: GovInfo Bill Status (public domain). Retrieved October 23, 2026.

Committees

Assignments from unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0), retrieved October 23, 2026.

PAC and committee contributors

157 committees reported giving $485,994.00 to this candidate, as filed by the giving committees through October 18, 2026. Timing differs from the campaign’s own reports, so this list may not match the totals above.

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Outside spending

  • Independent expenditures supporting Gary Palmer$131,018.00
  • Independent expenditures opposing Gary Palmer$0.00

FEC totals for the 2026 cycle, including groups that are not political committees, retrieved October 24, 2026.

Independent expenditures by committees that are not part of the campaign, as reported by those committees. This money is spent separately, not given to the candidate.

The race

Alabama U.S. House, District 6, 2026 · 8 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
Gary Palmer (R)$1,154,752.83$74,382.232026-10-14
Maurice Mercer (D)$30,338.54$13,107.012026-09-30
Case Dixon (R)$25,193.60$579.092026-07-22
Elizabeth Anderson (D)$15,898.96$2,787.462026-03-15
Kimberly Ashtyn Kennedy (D)$10,313.90$334.022026-09-30

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

  • Decision Desk HQSafe RJuly 14, 2026
  • The Cook Political ReportSolid RFebruary 6, 2025
  • Inside ElectionsSolid RMarch 7, 2025
  • Sabato's Crystal BallSafe RJuly 15, 2025
  • The EconomistSafe RApril 24, 2026

Recent polls

No public polling found for this race.

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama (retrieved October 22, 2026), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. TerraCivic does not rate races or compute its own average.

Sources and updates

  • Money: FEC bulk data (candidate summary, committee master, committee-to-candidate contributions), retrieved October 23, 2026. FEC candidate page · Principal campaign committee: GARY PALMER FOR CONGRESS.
  • Polling, ratings and candidate status: Wikipedia, retrieved October 22, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Status shown above comes from the race’s Wikipedia page.

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