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On January 2, 2009, Democrat Rahm Emanuel resigned one day before the end of the previous Congress after being named White House Chief of Staff. Democrat Michael Quigley won the election April 7, 2009 election to replace him, handily defeating Republican Rosanna Pulido with better than a two-to-one share of the vote.
During this off-year election, the only seats up for election in the United States Congress were special elections held throughout the year. In total, only the seat representing New York's 23rd congressional district changed party hands, increasing the Democratic Party 's majority over the Republicans in the United States House of ...
This provides a summary of the results of elections to the United States House of Representatives from the elections held in 1856 to the present. This time period corresponds to the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Party Systems of the United States. For the purposes of counting partisan divisions in the U.S. House of Representatives ...
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 3, 2009, in the states of New Jersey and Virginia, as well as in the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on November 7, 2009. Both state governorships were previously held by Democrats elected in 2005 , and both were won by Republicans in 2009; the local Covenant Party ...
NBC pioneered morning television more than 72 years ago when the network debuted its new show, TODAY, in 1952. Since then, the live broadcast program has become a cornerstone of American ...
No Democratic-held seats had fallen to the Republican Party in the 2006 elections. [ 2 ] This is the most recent Congress to feature Republican senators from Minnesota ( Norm Coleman ), New Mexico ( Pete Domenici ) and Oregon ( Gordon Smith ), in which Domenici retired and the other two lost re-election at the end of the Congress.
All 435 U.S. House of Representatives seats were up for election this year, and as of Monday evening, neither party had claimed control. Democrats stood at 204 seats claimed and Republicans were ...
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