Robin Litaker is running for Congressional District 7

Retired teacher and principal Robin Litaker recently announced that she would once again seek the Republican nomination in the Seventh Congressional District.

Litaker will be challenging popular Democratic incumbent Terri Sewell.

If Litaker wins the GOP nomination, this would be a rematch of the 2024 race where Sewell defeated Litaker.

Sewell has represented CD7 since her first election in 2010. Democrats also picked up the recently redistricted Second Congressional District in November, when attorney Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) defeated attorney Caroleene Dobson (R-Montgomery).

Republicans presently control the other five of the seven Congressional seats in Alabama.

"I am a retired teacher and principal," said Litaker in comments made last year. "I am running for this office because in this red state there is a big blue blob in the western half of the state."

"There are counties in district 7 that are on the verge of turning," said Litaker. "Terri Sewell has got to go. The things that we are finding out about Terri Sewell are nothing short of neglect."

"District 7 has some of the most impoverished areas in the state," Litaker continued. "70 to 80 percent of the rural people in the district do not have water and sewage systems."

Litaker's campaign was not embraced by Republican leaders and donors in 2024 as the GOP preferred to focus its resources on Dobson's campaign in CD2. Litaker bristled at the suggestion that CD7 – a majority minority district is unwinnable for Republicans. According to the Federal Election Commission Sewell raised $3,036,770.94 and spent $2,231,302.12. Litaker on the other hand could only raise $24,962.06 and had to rely on a $17,180 loan.

"People say I can't win," said Litaker. "They don't know me. If we can get the swing vote we are going to beat Terri Sewell."

In the 2024 election Rep. Terri Sewell got 186,723 votes – 63.7%. Robin Litaker received 106,312 (36.3%).

Litaker told the Alabama Gazette that in 2026 she will benefit without a Presidential race at that top of the ballot.

Litaker has previously run in the Republican primary for the Public Service Commission in 2022, 2020, and 2018 – each time failing to unseat the popular GOP incumbents.

Litaker has a bachelor's degree from Winthrop College, a master's degree. from Winthrop College, an Ed specialist degree in educational leadership from the University of Montevallo, and an Ed.D. in educational leadership from Samford University. She formerly worked with the Mobile County Public School System and the Hoover City School System. She was Alabama's teacher of the year.

The Republican primary will be on May 26, 2026.

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