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I had this code produce the following document. I wanted to align a few things.

Particularly under the "degree sequence" heading:

documentclass[varwidth,margin=2mm]standalone
usepackageamsmath,tikz
begindocument
 begincenter
 begintikzpicture
 %%%%% SNIP %%%%%
 endtikzpicture\
 rule[0cm]200pt0.5pt\
 beginmath
 $degree sequence$\
 $e=2,2,2,2,2 c=2,2,2,2,2$\
 delta(e)=2 delta(c)=2\
 Delta(e)=2 Delta(c)=2\
 rule[0cm]200pt0.5pt\
 alpha(e_1)=c_1, alpha(e_2)=c_3,\
 alpha(e_3)=c_5, alpha(e_4)=c_2,\
 alpha(e_5)=c_4, alpha(e_1)=c_1,\
 rule[0cm]200pt0.5pt\
 $e_1toe_2to e_3toe_4to
 e_5toe_1\
 $c_1toc_3to c_5toc_2to
 c_4toc_1\
 rule[0cm]200pt0.5pt\
 endmath 
 endcenter
enddocument

So I tried to use the align package to align it, butit kind of sent everything out of wack:

documentclass[varwidth,margin=2mm]standalone
usepackageamsmath,tikz
begindocument
 begincenter
 begintikzpicture
 %%%%% SNIP %%%%%
 endtikzpicture\
 rule[0cm]200pt0.5pt\
 degree sequence\
 e = 2,2,2,2,2,2 c = 2,2,2,2,2,2\
 beginalign*
 delta(e) & = 2 & delta(c) & = 2\
 Delta(e) & = 2 & Delta(c) & = 2\
 endalign*
 beginmath
 rule[0cm]200pt0.5pt\
 alpha(e_1)=c_1, alpha(e_2)=c_3,\
 alpha(e_3)=c_5, alpha(e_4)=c_2,\
 alpha(e_5)=c_4, alpha(e_1)=c_1,\
 rule[0cm]200pt0.5pt\
 $e_1toe_2to e_3toe_4to
 e_5toe_1\
 $c_1toc_3to c_5toc_2to
 c_4toc_1\
 rule[0cm]200pt0.5pt\
 endmath 
 endcenter
enddocument

Is there a way around this or am I stuck with it. I know it's only a minor thing, but it would be nice to have more control.

You want to use tabular:

documentclass[margin=6]standalone
usepackageamsmath,tikz,booktabs

begindocument

begintabularcc
begintikzpicture
draw (0,0)--(1,1);
endtikzpicture
&
begintikzpicture
draw (0,0)--(1,1);
endtikzpicture
\
midrule
multicolumn2cdegree sequence\
$beginaligned
& e=2,2,2,2,2 \
& delta(e)=2 \
& Delta(e)=2 \
endaligned$ &
$beginaligned
& c=2,2,2,2,2 \
& delta(c)=2 \
& Delta(c)=2
endaligned$ \
midrule
multicolumn2c%
 $beginaligned
 alpha(e_1)&=c_1, & alpha(e_2)&=c_3,\
 alpha(e_3)&=c_5, & alpha(e_4)&=c_2,\
 alpha(e_5)&=c_4, & alpha(e_1)&=c_1,
 endaligned$%
 \
midrule
multicolumn2c%
 $beginarray@ c *5@ >c< @ c @ 
 e_1 & to & e_2 & to & e_3 & to & e_4 & to & e_5 & to & e_1 \
 c_1 & to & c_3 & to & c_5 & to & c_2 & to & c_4 & to & c_1
 endarray$%
 \
bottomrule[lightrulewidth]
endtabular

enddocument

align and alignat allow you to align. And you can put things in a node which has the same width as the figure.

documentclass[tikz,margin=2mm]standalone
usetikzlibrarypositioning,calc
usepackageamsmath
begindocument
begintikzpicture[Bullet/.style=circle,draw,fill=black,scale=0.75]
beginscope[local bounding box=top]
beginscope[local bounding box=left]
 node[Bullet,label=left :$e_1$] (E1) at (0,2) ;
 node[Bullet,label=above:$e_2$] (E2) at (1,3) ;
 node[Bullet,label=right:$e_3$] (E3) at (2,2) ;
 node[Bullet,label=right:$e_4$] (E4) at (2,0) ;
 node[Bullet,label=left :$e_5$] (E5) at (0,0) ;
 draw[thick] (E1)--(E2)--(E3)--(E4)--(E5)--(E1) ;
endscope
 beginscope[local bounding box=right,xshift=4cm]
 node[Bullet,label=left :$c_1$] (C1) at (0,2) ;
 node[Bullet,label=above:$c_2$] (C2) at (1,3) ;
 node[Bullet,label=right:$c_3$] (C3) at (2,2) ;
 node[Bullet,label=right:$c_4$] (C4) at (2,0) ;
 node[Bullet,label=left :$c_5$] (C5) at (0,0) ;
 draw[thick] (C1)--(C3)--(C5)--(C2)--(C4)--(C1) ;
endscope
endscope
path let p1=($(top.east)-(top.west)$) in
node[below=of top,align=center,text width=x1]
rule[0cm]x10.5pt
degree sequence
beginalignat*2
 e&=2,2,2,2,2& c&=2,2,2,2,2\
 delta(e)&=2 &delta(c)&=2\
 Delta(e)&=2&Delta(c)&=2
endalignat*
rule[0cm]x10.5pt
beginalignat*2
 alpha(e_1)&=c_1,quad&alpha(e_2)&=c_3,\
 alpha(e_3)&=c_5,&alpha(e_4)&=c_2,\
 alpha(e_5)&=c_4,&alpha(e_1)&=c_1,
endalignat*
rule[0cm]x10.5pt
beginalign*
e_1&toe_2to e_3toe_4to
 e_5toe_1\
 c_1&toc_3to c_5toc_2to
 c_4toc_1
endalign*
rule[0cm]x10.5pt;
endtikzpicture
enddocument

with use of array:

documentclass[margin=2mm]standalone
usepackageamsmath,animate
usepackagegraphicx
usepackagebooktabs
usepackagetikz

begindocument
$
beginarray@c @
beginarraycc
tikznode[draw]includegraphics[width=31mm]example-image-duck;
 & tikznode[draw]includegraphics[width=31mm]example-image-duck;\
 midrule
multicolumn2c$degree sequence$ \[1ex]
e =2,2,2,2,2 & c =2,2,2,2,2 \
delta(e)=2 & delta(c)=2 \
Delta(e)=2 & Delta(c)=2 \
 endarray \ 
 midrule
alpha(e_1)=c_1,quad alpha(e_2)=c_3, \
alpha(e_3)=c_5,quad alpha(e_4)=c_2, \
alpha(e_5)=c_4,quad alpha(e_1)=c_1, \
 midrule
e_1to e_2to e_3to e_4to e_5to e_1 \
c_1to c_3to c_5to c_2to c_4to c_1 \
 midrule
endarray
$
enddocument

instead your tikzpicture code i use example image.