Charles Spittal Robb is an American former U.S. Marine Corps officer and politician who served as the 64th governor of Virginia from 1982 to 1986 and a United States senator representing Virginia from 1989 until 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,Robb sought a third term in the U.S. Senate in 2000,but was defeated by Republican George Allen,another former governor.
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1941 to 1945 and from 1947 to 1959 and in the U.S. Senate,from 1959 to 1977. He served as Senate Minority Leader from 1969 to 1977.
John Worth Kern was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana. While the title was not official,he is considered to be the first Senate majority leader,while serving concurrently as chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus. He was also the Democratic vice presidential nominee in the 1908 presidential election.
The 1976 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate. Held on November 2,the 33 seats of Class 1 were contested in regular elections. They coincided with Democrat Jimmy Carter's presidential election and the United States Bicentennial celebration. Although almost half of the seats decided in this election changed parties,Carter's narrow victory did not provide coattails for the Democratic Party. Each party flipped seven Senate seats,although,one of the seats flipped by Democrats was previously held by a Conservative.
The 1960 United States Senate elections coincided with the election of John F. Kennedy as president on November 8,1960. The 33 seats of Class 2 were contested in regular elections. A special election was also held on June 28,1960,for a mid-term vacancy in North Dakota where Democrats flipped a seat to expand their majority to 66–34. As Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson was elected Vice President,Mike Mansfield became the new majority leader.
The Senate of Virginia is the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. The Senate is composed of 40 senators representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts. The Senate is presided over by the lieutenant governor of Virginia. Prior to the American War of Independence,the upper house of the General Assembly was represented by the Virginia Governor's Council,consisting of up to 12 executive counselors appointed by the colonial royal governor as advisers and jurists.
The 2006 United States Senate election in West Virginia was held November 7,2006. Incumbent Democrat Robert Byrd won re-election to a ninth term. He was sworn in on January 3,2007. However,he died in office on June 28,2010,before the end of his term. This was Byrd's closest re-election.
Thomas Staples Martin was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Albemarle County,Virginia,who founded a political organization that held power in Virginia for decades and who personally became a U.S. Senator who served for nearly a quarter century and rose to become the Majority Leader before dying in office.
William Troy Bolling is an American businessman,politician and educator who served as the 39th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
Thomas Kent Norment Jr. is an American politician who served as the Minority Leader of the Senate of Virginia. He was elected to the James City County Board of Supervisors where he served as Chairman before being elected to the Virginia Senate in 1992. A Republican,he represented the 3rd district of the Virginia Senate,which included parts of the Virginia Peninsula,King and Queen County,King William County,New Kent County,and Gloucester County on the Middle Peninsula. Senator Norment holds the records for longest serving Republican senator as well as the longest serving Senate Republican Leader in Virginia's history.
The 1990 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 6,1990,to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the state of Michigan. John Engler,a member of the Republican Party and State Senate majority leader,was elected over Democratic Party nominee,incumbent governor James Blanchard,who was seeking his third term.
The 1956 Oregon gubernatorial special election took place on November 6,1956. Democratic state senator Robert D. Holmes narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Elmo Smith to win the election.
Hunter Booker Andrews was a long-serving Democratic member of the Senate of Virginia from Hampton,Virginia. He served as Senate Majority leader of the Senate from 1980 until his defeat in 1995.
The 1976 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 2,1976. Incumbent Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. was re-elected to a second term over retired Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and state legislator Martin H. Perper. As of 2023,this is the last statewide race in Virginia that was won by an independent.
Jeff Yarbro is an American attorney and politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party,he has represented District 21 in the Tennessee Senate since 2015,and served as the Minority Leader of the chamber between 2019 and 2023. In 2023,Yarbro ran for Mayor of Nashville in the 2023 election,and finished in fourth place.
The 1938 United States Senate election in California was held on November 2,1938. Incumbent Democratic Senator William Gibbs McAdoo ran for a second term,but was defeated by Sheridan Downey in the Democratic primary. Downey went on to defeat Philip Bancroft in the general election.
Leslie Dunlop Campbell Jr. was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Virginia state senate. The former commonwealth's attorney of Hanover County,he won the nomination for Senate in 1963 against former delegate Edmund T. DeJarnette. He was defeated in a 1975 Democratic primary challenge by Elmo Cross.
The 2020 West Virginia Senate elections were held on November 3,2020,as part of the biennial United States elections. Seventeen of the 34 West Virginia state senators stood for election. West Virginia Senate districts each have two elected representatives.
The 2023 Virginia Senate election was held on Tuesday,November 7,2023,concurrently with elections for the Virginia House of Delegates,to elect senators to all 40 seats in the Senate of Virginia for the 163rd and 164th Virginia Assembly. Nomination primaries held through the Department of Elections were held June 20,2023. These were the first elections held following redistricting as a result of the 2020 census.
West Virginia held elections on November 8,2022. Elections for the United States House of Representatives,as well as the House of Delegates and 17 of 34 Senate seats were held. These elections were held concurrently with other elections nationwide. Primary elections were held on May 10,2022.
