# Prince Chestnut

Prince Chestnut is a Democratic member of the Alabama House for district 67.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Alabama House, district 67
- Serving since: 2017-04-25
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/b1e60061-fb98-4c20-8532-b734d08cdbc3

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/b1e60061-fb98-4c20-8532-b734d08cdbc3 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

100% of Chestnut’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Alabama, in the top tenth of State House Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.34 (standard error 0.02), from 22 donors and 581 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 89% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 13 bills: 13 reached committee, 7 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 0. 53.8% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama House 67.2%; rank 78 of 99).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HR 360: Jawana Jackson and Henry Ford Museum, commended (passed one chamber, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HR360/
- HB 659: Public K-12 education; Bill of Rights in the Classroom Act, publication of standardized version by State Department of Education required, display of the Bill… (in committee, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB659/
- HB 644: Crimes and offenses; crime of female genital mutilation established, penalties provided (in committee, 2026-04-01) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB644/
- HB 468: Local commissions and authorities; prohibition on officers serving on commission or board of directors of authority removed for certain municipalities (passed one chamber, 2026-03-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB468/
- HR 78: Dr. Lynda Blackmon Lowery, death mourned (passed one chamber, 2026-02-03) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HR78/
- HB 525: Alabama Student Grant Program, HBCU in Selma added to approved institutions for which students may receive grants to attend (in committee, 2025-04-03) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HB525/
- HB 516: Consumer protection, use of a computer to interact with a consumer when consumer believes the interaction is with a human is an unlawful trade practice (in committee, 2025-04-03) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HB516/
- HR 159: R.C. Hatch High School Boys Basketball Team, 1A State Champions, commended (passed one chamber, 2025-03-20) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HR159/
- HB 470: Consumer protection, protection of personally identifiable information further provided for, civil and criminal liability established (in committee, 2025-03-20) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HB470/
- HR 116: Eliza Jane Manuel, honored (passed one chamber, 2025-03-05) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HR116/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $57.4K (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/house-leaders-members?tab=1
- X: https://x.com/Chestnut4House
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/princechestnut4house/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prince-chestnut-340943317/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/b1e60061-fb98-4c20-8532-b734d08cdbc3