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The only election which changed party hands (from Republican to Democratic) was in New York's 23rd congressional district. Also, a primary election was held in Massachusetts on December 8, 2009, for the senate seat left open by the death of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy ; the general special election for that later seat occurred on January 19, 2010.
Dawson was one of two candidates to earn votes on each of the six votes taken; he lost the final ballot to winner Michael Steele, 91–77. [6] On November 24, 2008, Steele launched his own campaign website, [7] and confirmed his intention to run on Hannity and Colmes. [8]
Since 1824, a national popular vote has been tallied for each election, but the national popular vote does not directly affect the winner of the presidential election. The United States has had a two-party system for much of its history, and the major parties of the two-party system have dominated presidential elections for most of U.S. history ...
2009 Afghan presidential election; 2009 Azerbaijani constitutional referendum; 2009 Bangkok gubernatorial election; 2009 Bangladeshi presidential election; 2009 Indonesian presidential election; 2009 Indonesian legislative election; 2009 Iranian presidential election; 2009 Israeli legislative election; 2009 Kuwaiti parliamentary election; 2009 ...
Toggle 2008 United States presidential election subsection. 4.1 2008 Democratic Party primary elections. ... January 21, 2009 [9] Party All votes Democratic Republican
Trump's margin of victory was under 12,000 votes and little-known Darrell Castle, the Constitution Party candidate, got just shy of 17,000 votes in the state. The Libertarian and Green Party ...
Since then, 19 presidential elections have occurred in which a candidate was elected or reelected without gaining a majority of the popular vote. [4] Since the 1988 election, the popular vote of presidential elections was decided by single-digit margins, the longest streak of close-election results since states began popularly electing ...
Barack Obama served as the 44th president of the United States (2009–2017) and as a United States senator from Illinois (2005–2008). A member of the Democratic Party , Obama was first elected to the Illinois Senate in 1997 representing the 13th district, which covered much of the Chicago South Side .