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The years in which elections are held for U.S. state and local offices vary between each jurisdiction. The vast majority of races held during off-year elections are at the city and local level, but many other city and local governments may instead hold their elections during even-numbered years to coincide with either the presidential or ...
President Bush and first lady Barbara at a Halloween celebration in 1989 (Getty) GEORGE H.W. BUSH. To mark Bush's first year in the White House, the president and first lady hosted a Halloween ...
November 8 is both Election Day and the day of a Blood Moon, or the lunar eclipse in Taurus. Here's exactly what that means.
There were two elections to the same seat on the same day due to the November 8, 1949 death of two-term Republican Clyde M. Reed. Governor of Kansas Frank Carlson appointed fellow Republican Harry Darby December 2, 1949 to continue the term, pending a special election. Carlson won both elections and was seated November 29, 1950.
Presidential elections occur every four years on Election Day, which since 1845 has been the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] This date coincides with the general elections of various other federal, state, and local races; since local governments are responsible for managing elections, these races typically ...
Elections were held on November 7, 1950, and elected the members of the 82nd United States Congress. The election took place during the Korean War, during Democratic President Harry S. Truman's second (only full) term. The Democrats lost twenty-eight seats to the Republican Party in the House of Representatives.
Every election cycle, my husband has a story he likes to tell about his first-grade election night assignment—he had to fill in the 2000 Bush vs. Gore electoral map. (I asked him whether he did ...
These elections occurred in the middle of President Harry Truman's second term. As the Korean War began and Truman's personal popularity plummeted for a second time during his presidency, his Democratic Party lost a net 28 seats to the Republican Party. This was the first election since 1908 where no third parties acquired any seats in the House.