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2011 West Virginia gubernatorial special election Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Earl Ray Tomblin (incumbent) 149,202 : 49.55 : Republican: Bill Maloney: 141,656 47.05 Mountain: Bob Henry Baber 6,083 2.02 Independent: Marla Ingels 2,875 0.95 American Third Position: Harry Bertram 1,111 0.37 Write-in: 157 0.05 Total votes 301,084 : 100.00 ...
The governor of Alabama is the head of government of the U.S. state of Alabama. The governor is the head of the executive branch of Alabama's state government and is charged with enforcing state laws. There have officially been 54 governors of the state of Alabama; this official numbering skips acting and military governors. [2]
Riley did not run for re-election to the House in November 2002 (as a supporter of term limits, he imposed a three-term limit on himself), instead running for governor of Alabama and defeating the Democratic incumbent Don Siegelman by approximately 3,000 votes - the narrowest margin in the state's history for a gubernatorial race. The result ...
Robert Julian Bentley (born February 3, 1943) is an American former politician and physician who served as the 53rd governor of Alabama from 2011 until 2017 upon his resignation following his arrest after a sex scandal involving a political aide.
In a 2009 interview, Sam Webb, co-editor of the book “Alabama Governors,” said Patterson was “a brave and courageous” governor on many fronts, but those accomplishments were overshadowed ...
Republicans ran a token candidate in every Alabama gubernatorial election except for 1930 and 1962. Their highest vote total between disenfranchisement and 1966 was the 21.28% of the vote they gained in 1922. Alabama was unusual among Deep South states in even having a token Republican running in the gubernatorial election.
Kay Ellen Ivey (/ ˈ aɪ v i / EYE-vee; [2] born October 15, 1944) is an American politician who is the 54th governor of Alabama, serving since 2017.Originally a conservative Southern Democrat, Ivey became a member of the Republican Party in 2002.
Lessons from Election 2011 "State Elections Legislation Database", Ncsl.org, Washington, D.C.: National Conference of State Legislatures, State legislation related to the administration of elections introduced in 2011 through this year; 2011 state legislative elections on Ballotpedia; 2011 ballot measures and potential 2011 ballot measures on ...