| The Green Papers: Virginia 2007 Off Year Election |
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Virginia
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress Special Election House CD 1: Tuesday 11 December 2007 |
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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. (as candidate) • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| Lieutenant Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2005, 2009 | |||||
| Republican | Lieutenant Governor William T. "Bill" Bolling (as candidate) • First elected: 2005 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 3 November 2009 |
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| 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 {map}  |
Republican | Congressman Robert J. "Rob" Wittman (as candidate) • 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 |
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Republican | 42,767 | 60.72% | state Delegate Robert J. "Rob" Wittman (as officeholder) • Nominated by Convention 10 November 2007 • FEC: $94,925 |
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Democratic | 26,275 | 37.31% | Philip R. Forgit • Nominated by Convention 10 November 2007 • FEC: $43,522 |
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Independent | 1,310 | 1.86% | Lucky R. Narain | |
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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 {map} |
Republican | Congressman Thelma Day Drake (as candidate) • First elected: 2004 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| CD 3 {map} |
Democratic | Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| CD 4 {map} |
Republican | Congressman J. Randy Forbes (as candidate) • 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 |
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| CD 5 {map} |
Republican | Congressman Virgil H. Goode, Jr. (as candidate) • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| CD 6 {map} |
Republican | Congressman Robert W. "Bob" Goodlatte (as candidate) • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| CD 7 {map} |
Republican | Congressman Eric I. Cantor (as candidate) • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| CD 8 {map} |
Democratic | Congressman James P. "Jim" Moran, Jr. (as candidate) • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| CD 9 {map} |
Democratic | Congressman Frederick C. "Rick" Boucher (as candidate) • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| CD 10 {map} |
Republican | Congressman Frank R. Wolf (as candidate) • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| CD 11 {map} |
Republican | Congressman Thomas M. "Tom" Davis, III (as candidate) • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| Attorney General 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2005, 2009 | |||||
| Republican | Attorney General Robert F. "Bob" McDonnell (as candidate) • First elected 2005 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 3 November 2009 • Open Seat - Possible candidate for Governor in 2009 |
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| 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. |