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1 mid-term vacancy: Net seat change: Republican +1: Map of the 2009 Senate special elections Republican gain (1) Congressional special elections; Seats contested: 5: Net seat change: Democratic +1: Gubernatorial elections; Seats contested: 3 (2 states, 1 territory) Net seat change: Republican +2: 2009 gubernatorial election results map: Legend
On January 2, 2009, Democrat Rahm Emanuel resigned one day before the end of the previous Congress after being named White House Chief of Staff. Democrat Michael Quigley won the election April 7, 2009 election to replace him, handily defeating Republican Rosanna Pulido with better than a two-to-one share of the vote.
Semicircular election apportionment diagram. An election apportionment diagram is the graphic representation of election results and the seats in a plenary or legislative body. The chart can also be used to represent data in easy to understand terms, for example by grouping allied parties together.
[e] Due to vacancies and party-switching that arose during the 116th Congress, immediately before the November 2020 elections Democrats held 232 seats, compared to 197 seats held by Republicans and one seat, that of Justin Amash, held by the Libertarian Party. [58] Thus, Republicans needed to gain 21 seats to gain a majority.
In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote.
As of 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, the state Elections Department said results from all of Idaho’s 42 other counties were complete except for Kootenai, the home of Coeur d’Alene and the state’s ...
An increasing trend has been for incumbents to have an overwhelming advantage in House elections, and since the 1994 election, an unusually low number of seats has changed hands in each election. [citation needed] Due to gerrymandering, fewer than 10% of all House seats are contested in each election cycle. Over 90% of House members are ...
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 3, 2020, to elect representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states to the 117th United States Congress, as well as six non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and the inhabited U.S. territories.