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A special election to fill the remainder of the term is then held concurrently with that regular state election, which in this case would be the one on November 3, 2026. [1] [2] Governor Mike DeWine has stated that he will announce an interim replacement after Vance has resigned his seat sometime before January. [3]
Vice President-elect JD Vance has served in the United States Senate for less than two years, but after President-elect Donald Trump's victory in Tuesday's election, Vance is about to get a ...
Vice President-elect J.D. Vance is now set to take the country’s second-highest office in January. After the Republican leaves his Ohio Senate seat vacant, there is state protocol for how his ...
The Seventeenth Amendment now requires the governor (Gov.) of the state to issue a writ for a special election to fill a vacant Senate seat, but no timeframe is specified in the provision for when the special election is to be held. State legislatures may also empower the governor to fill a vacancy by a temporary appointment until the winner of ...
Vance won his seat in the Senate in 2022 and won’t be up for reelection as a senator until 2028. If he and Trump win in November, Vance would need to resign before taking the oath of office on ...
In politics, a casual vacancy (casual in the sense of "by chance") is a situation in which a seat in a deliberative assembly becomes vacant during that assembly's term. . Casual vacancies may arise through the death, resignation or disqualification of the sitting member, or for other re
When the newest state, Hawaii, was admitted in 1959, its first Senate elections had candidates run either for "seat A" or "B". The new senators, Hiram Fong and Oren E. Long , in a process managed by the Secretary of the Senate , drew lots to determine which of the two would join class 1 (whose term would end in five-and-a-half years), and which ...
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may ...