Jerry Carl
- Background
- Business owner · County commissioner or board member
- Raised
- $1.5M
- Cash on hand
- $168K
- Age
- 68
Spectrum
Centrist is the middle of the scale, not of Congress. How this works
By donors (CFscore, 2024 cycle)
Research estimate from Stanford DIME 4.0. Source
Matched by name only, so it could be the wrong person.
Method and limits
Published score 1.355 on a scale from −2.0 to 2.0, where 0 is the center. 7,162 donors. License: ODC-BY 1.0.
Places a candidate by who gave them money; candidates who share donors sit close together.
Reflects the donor network, not votes or views, and comes from past cycles, not a 2026 reading.
Now
Career
On the 2026 ballot for US House AL-01, status certified.
Money
FEC, through Oct 14, 2026Spent $1.4M · Debts owed $255K
Where the money came from
- Individuals$739K
- PACs and other committees$528K
- Party committees$0
- Candidate’s own money$0
- Loans from the candidate$0
- Transfers from the candidate’s other committees$183K
As the campaign reported to the FEC through Oct 14, 2026. Bars compare these lines. Some money has no line here, so they may not add up to the total raised. Source: FEC candidate summary.
Committees giving to this campaign
117 committees reported giving $414K.
- Raptor PACLeadership PAC$12,500
- National Automobile Dealers Association PACPAC$10,000
- Elect - the PAC of the Alabama Farmers FederationPAC$10,000
- Vulcan Materials Company PACPAC$10,000
- Drummond Company, Inc. PAC (DPAC)PAC$10,000
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- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama PACPAC$10,000
- The Eye of the Tiger PACLeadership PAC$10,000
- Land of Opportunity PACLeadership PAC$10,000
- American Revival PACPAC$10,000
- American Israel Public Affairs Committee PACPAC$10,000
- In the Arena PACLeadership PAC$7,500
- L3harris Technologies, Inc. PACPAC$6,000
- University of South Alabama Federal PACPAC$5,500
- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association America's Electric Cooperatives PACPAC$5,000
- America's Credit Unions PACPAC$5,000
- Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. PAC (ABC PAC)PAC$5,000
- American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC/PAC)PAC$5,000
- National Cattlemen's Beef Association PAC (NCBA-PAC)PAC$5,000
- National Association of Realtors PACPAC$5,000
- Associated General Contractors of America PACPAC$5,000
The largest 20 are listed. Refunds the committees reported are taken out. Independent spending isn’t included. These figures come from the committees’ own reports, so they can differ from the campaign’s lines above, sometimes by a lot. Source: FEC committee-to-candidate file, dated Oct 25, 2026.
Reports through Oct 14, 2026. Matched to the FEC by name, party and seat, so it could be the wrong person.
How these are counted
Later filings are not in yet. Totals for the 2025 to 2026 cycle. Raised $1,452,254. Cash on hand $168,086. Spent $1,353,458. Debts owed $254,536. Individuals $739,241. PACs and other committees $527,559. Party committees $0. Candidate’s own money $0. Loans from the candidate $0. Other loans $0. Transfers from the candidate’s other committees $183,454. Main committee: Jerry Carl for Congress. No individual donor names are shown.
More about Jerry Carl
Background
- Business owner
- County commissioner or board member
Source: Campaign site
Official pages (1 link)
Sources (5 sources)
Ballot listing, sos.alabama.gov
Name, party, office and status. Retrieved Aug 26, 2026.
Federal 2026 candidates: money totals (web/data/people/money) and the MN federal filing list. Bulk files, no API and no key. Retrieved Oct 31, 2026. License: US government work, public domain. Totals and committee names only; no donor names or addresses are stored.
FEC bulk data 2025-2026: contributions from committees to candidates (pas226)
Federal 2026 candidates: committees giving to each candidate (web/data/people/money-types). Bulk file, no API and no key. Retrieved Oct 31, 2026. License: US government work, public domain. Committee totals only; the individual contributions file is not used.
Stanford DIME public v4.0, recipients file (CFscores)
CFscores for candidates and officials; web/data/ideology/dime.json and aggregate.json. A research estimate by Adam Bonica, not an official measure. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: ODC-BY 1.0.
Compiled by Adam Bonica, Stanford University Libraries (built from campaign finance filings) from official returns. Not an official source.
Bonica, Adam. 2024. Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections: Public version 4.0 [Computer file]. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries. https://data.stanford.edu/dime .
Election Wrld 2026 candidate files (state election office lists)
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: state public records; see each row's sourceUrl.
- Age: Wikidata, counted to Nov 3, 2026. A community-edited source, not an official record. We show the age, never the birth date.
Officials files, 2026 candidate files, returns files, DIME, FEC candidate master and congress-legislators terms, as of 2026-10-29. Nothing about jobs, retirement, or reasons is recorded or inferred.
DataSources: FEC, DIME (ODC-BY), Results filesData as of Oct 29, 2026Photo credits