Jesse Battles secures spot on November ballot for Senate District 10
His campaign said more than 3,000 voter signatures capped a grassroots push across northeast Alabama after party insiders kept him off the primary ballot.
State Senate candidate Jesse Battles announced Monday that the Alabama Secretary of State has certified his place on the ballot for the November 3, 2026, General Election for Alabama State Senate District 10.
Battles said the certification ends weeks of anxious waiting and caps months of grassroots organizing across Etowah, Cherokee and DeKalb counties. To earn the spot, Battles’ campaign gathered and submitted more than 3,000 signatures from registered voters across the district—voters who the campaign said were adamant about deciding for themselves who their next state senator will be “rather than leaving that decision to the Establishment,” according to Battles’ press release.
“Today belongs to the people of this district,” Battles said. “Earlier this year, the Establishment tried to take this decision out of your hands by striking my name from the ballot. Over the past several weeks, more than 3,000 of you put it right back where it belongs. That’s how this is supposed to work—the people choose their leaders, not the insiders.”
Battles’ press release also emphasized that he is a Republican.
“Jesse Battles is, and always has been, a Republican. For more than a decade, he has poured his time and energy into the conservative cause—building one of Alabama’s most active College Republican chapters at Jacksonville State University, helping the Secretary of State’s office enforce Alabama’s voter ID law, working to get Republicans elected up and down the ballot, and serving faithfully in his county Republican Party,” the release stated. “None of that has changed. The only reason his name will appear outside the Republican column this November is that the Establishment stripped him from the primary ballot and took that choice away from the voters. Jesse Battles has never been, nor will he ever be, anything other than a Republican.”
The campaign said the signatures represent more than a legal threshold. Organizers said each one came from a face-to-face conversation—at a feed store, a ballgame, a church parking lot or a front porch—with neighbors who wanted their voices heard in November.
“We’re hitting the campaign trail harder than ever, and everywhere we go we hear the same thing—more neglect, more disregard from Montgomery for the people who actually live and work in northeast Alabama,” Battles said. “This campaign has been 110 percent about people from the very first day. On November 3, we intend to hand a victory back to the people who built it.”
With ballot access secured, the campaign said it will expand its operation across the district through the summer and fall, focusing on infrastructure, support for local businesses and family farms, backing for veterans and law enforcement, and securing a seat at the table for the communities Battles says Montgomery has overlooked.
The campaign also said it will share simple, step-by-step voting guidance with District 10 voters in the weeks ahead so supporters know how to cast their ballots for Battles in November.
