Democrat Doug Jones wins Alabama Senate seat
Democrats win Alabama Senate seat
With 92 per cent of precincts reporting, Jones secured 49.5 per cent of the vote compared to Roy Moore's 48.8 per cent, reports said.
In a big political setback to President Trump, Alabama Democrat candidate Doug Jones won the US Senate seat causing a major upset in the largely conservative state.
With 92 per cent of precincts reporting, Jones secured 49.5 per cent of the vote compared to Roy Moore's 48.8 per cent, reports said.
Republican Roy Moore campaign was dogged from the beggining with sexual misconduct allegations.
Alabamawhich is a Conservative bastion has fallen to the Democrats for the first time in nearly 25 years.
Doug Jones, 63, considered a champion for civil rights had played a huge role in prosecuting two members of the Ku Klux Klan for the 1963 dynamite attack on a black church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Former President Barack Obama and his ex-vice president Joe Biden had campaigned for Jones during the high voltage clash with Moore which had become the focus of attention in the country.