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The 2009 Virginia gubernatorial election took place in Virginia on November 3, 2009. The incumbent governor, Democrat Tim Kaine, was not eligible to run due to term limits established by the Virginia Constitution, though others in the state's executive branch were not restricted.
This was the sixth consecutive Virginian gubernatorial election where an elected Attorney General has run. [11] On November 3, 2009, Bob McDonnell defeated Creigh Deeds to become governor-elect of Virginia. His margin of victory was a landslide 59% to 41%. [6]
McDonnell resigned as Virginia's Attorney General on February 3, 2009, to concentrate on the gubernatorial campaign. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Democratic Party nominated Creigh Deeds , Democrat from Bath County – senator since 2002 following 10 years in the House; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for attorney general in 2005, after he captured the ...
The governor of Virginia is the state's head of government and commander-in-chief of the state's official national guard.The first Constitution of 1776 created the office of governor, to be elected annually by the Virginia State Legislature.
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Former Attorney General of Virginia Bob McDonnell was the Republican nominee for the 2009 gubernatorial race in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia.At the Virginia State Convention on May 30, 2009, he officially received the party's nomination, as Republican Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling decided against opposing him.
In 2001, Virginia elected Democrats Mark Warner as governor and Tim Kaine as lieutenant governor, and Kaine was elected to succeed Warner as governor in 2005. In 2009, however, a Republican again returned to the governor's mansion as Bob McDonnell defeated Democrat Creigh Deeds, garnering 58.61% of the popular vote to Deeds' 41.25%. Republicans ...
New Jersey and Virginia, along with the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, held gubernatorial elections in 2009. Both governorships in New Jersey and Virginia changed party hands from Democrat to Republican. This is the last time, both governors flipped parties in the same election.