Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, watches as votes are counted during an election for Alabama Democratic Party chair at the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee's on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026 in Montgomery, Ala. Singleton won with 73% of the votes from about 220 SDEC members. (Stew Milne for Alabama Reflector) Alabama Democrats on Saturday elected Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton party chair amid calls for the organization to take advantage of the most promising electoral landscape for state Democrats in years. Singleton got 165 votes (72.7%) over current Chair Randy Kelley, who got 62 votes (27.3%) in a vote in which the 200-plus members of the State Democratic Executive (SDEC) voted by holding up pieces of paper with “vote” printed on them while other members walked around to count. “I want you to know that I hear you, I see you,” Singleton said in a two-minute speech prior to the vote. “We need to make sure that we realize and listen to people. ...