Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A recall election (also called a recall referendum, recall petition or representative recall) is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended.
Northam assumed office as the 73rd Governor of Virginia on January 13, 2018. [4] The election had the highest voter turnout percentage in a Virginia gubernatorial election in twenty years, with over 47% of registered voters casting their ballot. [1] As of 2025, this is the last time a Democrat was elected Governor of Virginia.
Statewide and municipal elections were held in the U.S. state of Virginia on November 7, 2017. The main election being held in Virginia was the state's gubernatorial election. In addition, all of Virginia's House of Delegates seats were up for re-election. Primary elections for the House of Delegates and the governor were held on June 13, 2017.
Governor Gavin Newsom was elected in 2018 with 61.9% of the vote. In 2020 and 2021, a recall petition gained momentum due to the COVID-19 pandemic in California and Newsom's responses, eventually triggering a recall election. [10] [11] The ballot featured two questions, whether to recall Newsom and who would have replaced him if he had been ...
Virginia filed a notice of appeal on Friday afternoon. Republican Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin said the state will take the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court, if needed.
The 1993 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1993. Barred from seeking a second term due to term limits restricting consecutive terms for Virginia governor, incumbent Democratic governor L. Douglas Wilder was replaced by Republican nominee and former U.S. representative George Allen .
Virginia is one of just a handful of states that holds major elections in off years, so while special elections to replace state Sens. John McGuire, R-Goochland, and Suhas Subramanyam, D-Loudoun ...
From 1977 until 2013, Virginia had elected a governor of the opposite political party compared to the President of the United States of the time. In 2017, Virginia returned to electing a governor of the opposite political party compared to the current President by electing Ralph Northam. This happened again when Glenn Youngkin was elected in 2021.