The Green Papers: Virginia 2007 Off Year Election
This page is for offices up for election in 2007. Find 2008 elections here.
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Special Election House CD 1: Tuesday 11 December 2007
Electoral Votes:13(2.42% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
2002-2010 Representatives:11(2.53% of 435)
2000 Census:7,100,702 (2.52% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):5,263,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):3,770,273
Capital:Richmond
Tuesday 11 December 2007 polling hours 6:00a EST (1100 UTC) to 7:00p EST (0000 UTC).
 

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Virginia State and Local Government


Virginia law gives political parties the authority to determine how it will nominate its candidates. Primaries may be held by a Party re: offices with multiple candidates for that party's nomination. Nominations made by a method other than this Primary must be completed by poll closing time on Primary day itself.

In contests where only one candidate filed for a Party's nomination, there will be no primary election: that candidate will appear as the party's nominee on the General Election ballot.

 
           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 110th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1 Democratic Senator James H. "Jim" Webb, Jr.
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

Class 2 Republican Senator John William Warner
First elected: 1978; re-elected: 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Open Seat - 31 August 2007: Announced retirement effective at the end of his current term.

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2005, 2009. Term Limit: ineligble to immediately succeed after a given 4-year term, All Governors

  Democratic Governor Timothy M. "Tim" Kaine
First elected: 2005
Chair up for election: Tuesday 3 November 2009
The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election.
Open Chair - At term limit

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2005, 2009

  Republican Lieutenant Governor William T. "Bill" Bolling
First elected: 2005
Seat up for election: Tuesday 3 November 2009

110th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 110th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
8 Republican (8 Undetermined);
3 Democratic (3 Undetermined)

CD 1
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Seat up for election
Republican Congressman Robert J. "Rob" Wittman
First elected in a special election (re: the death of Congressman Jo Ann S. Davis): 11 December 2007
Seat up for election: Tuesday 11 December 2007
  Elected Republican 42,767 60.72% state Delegate Robert J. "Rob" Wittman
Nominated by Convention 10 November 2007

FEC: $94,925
  Candidate Democratic 26,275 37.31% Philip R. Forgit
Nominated by Convention 10 November 2007

FEC: $43,522
  Candidate Independent 1,310 1.86% Lucky R. Narain
  Candidate Write-in 76 0.11% Write In
Total 70,428 100.00%  
  

We extend our condolences to the family and friends of Congressman Jo Ann S. Davis (Republican, Virginia CD 1) who passed away on 6 October 2007 after a two-year battle with breast cancer. She was 57. Mrs. Davis was first diagnosed in October 2005 and underwent chemotherapy and a mastectomy. On 7 March 2007, she announced that her breast cancer had returned. The Congressman was first elected to Congress in 2000.

On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Virginia Governor Timothy M. "Tim" Kaine called a Tuesday 11 December 2007 Special Election in CD 1 to fill the remainder of the term.

The Democratic and Republican Parties held nomination conventions for the special election on Saturday 10 November 2007.


CD 2
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Republican Congressman Thelma Day Drake
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 3
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Democratic Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 4
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Republican Congressman J. Randy Forbes
2001 June 19: Elected in a special election to replace the seat vacated by the death of Norman Sisisky.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 5
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Republican Congressman Virgil H. Goode, Jr.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 6
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Republican Congressman Robert W. "Bob" Goodlatte
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 7
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Republican Congressman Eric I. Cantor
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 8
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Democratic Congressman James P. "Jim" Moran, Jr.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 9
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Democratic Congressman Frederick C. "Rick" Boucher
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 10
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Republican Congressman Frank R. Wolf
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 11
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Republican Congressman Thomas M. "Tom" Davis, III
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2005, 2009

  Republican Attorney General Robert F. "Bob" McDonnell
First elected 2005
Seat up for election: Tuesday 3 November 2009
Open Seat - Possible candidate for Governor in 2009

Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

Major Parties
  Democratic (affiliates): 5 incumbents, 1 candidate
  Republican: 11 incumbents, 1 candidate
Independents
  Independent: 1 candidate
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  Write-in: 1 candidate
 
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from an election authority that the person so listed will actually appear on the ballot.
 
FEC indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary "Total Receipts" for candidates for Federal Office.

 


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