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Elections to state legislatures were held on November 4, 2008, alongside other elections, in which Democrats scored significant gains in a blue wave election.Elections were held for 85 legislative chambers, with all states but Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Alabama, Maryland, and Virginia holding elections in at least one house.
2008 New Mexico House of Representatives election; 2008 New Mexico Senate election; 2008 New York State legislative elections; 2008 North Carolina House of Representatives election; 2008 North Carolina Senate election
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was the Democratic nominee, and Senator John McCain of Arizona was the Republican nominee. Incumbent President George W. Bush was ineligible for re-election per the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which limits a president to two terms, and incumbent Vice President Dick Cheney declined to run for the office.
The 2008 United States Senate elections were held on November 4, 2008, with 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested. 33 seats were up for regular elections; the winners were eligible to serve 6-year terms from January 3, 2009, to January 3, 2015, as members of Class 2.
The 2008 congressional elections in Ohio were held on November 4, 2008, and determined who would represent the state of Ohio in the United States House of Representatives. The primary election was held on March 4, 2008. Ohio had eighteen seats in the House, apportioned according to the 2000 United States census.
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Since Representatives are elected for two-year terms, those elected will serve in the 111th United States Congress from January 4, 2009, until January 3, 2011. The 2008 presidential election, 2008 Senate election, and elections to the Texas House and Texas Senate occurred on the same date, as well as many local elections and ballot initiatives.
Tennessee state elections in 2008 were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Primary elections for the United States Senate , United States House of Representatives , Tennessee Senate , and Tennessee House of Representatives , as well as various judicial retention elections , including elections for two Tennessee Supreme Court justices, were held ...