Election History
The year the first U.S. midterm election was held.
When was 1790?
During this historic election, the Republican party rebranded itself to run under the Nation Union Party, hoping to draw votes away from democratic candidate George B. McClellan.
What was the election of 1864?
This term starting with an "S" refers to the legal right to vote.
What is suffrage?
This is a list of candidates and laws that you vote for or against. It is usually mailed in physically, but can be submitted online in some areas.
What is a ballot?
These legislators are elected to serve six-year terms in the upper house of Congress. Each district has two of them.
Who are senators?
This economically devastating event caused the GOP to lose 8 Senate seats and 52 House seats in the 1930 elections.
What was the Wall Street crash of 1929?
This presidential election was so close that it involved multiple methods of vote recounting and a United States Supreme Court decision.
What was the election of 2000?
This landmark federal law was passed in 1965, declaring the voting practices in Southern states intended to disenfranchise Black voters unconstitutional, as well as upholding the right to vote regardless of ethnic or racial background previously established by the Fifteenth Amendment.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Taking place in August, these elections determine which candidates will represent each political party in November.
What are primary elections?
Elected to serve in the lower house of Congress. Their term length is two years. The amount of these legislators each district has is determined by its population size.
Who are representatives?
The system of voting in which all voters publicly called out the names of their preferred candidates for the offices being contested
What is Viva Voce voting?
This election saw the presidential party gaining seats in the senate during the first midterm elections for the first time since 1934.
In the year 1920, this Constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
These elections determine which candidates will be elected to office. They take place in November, after the primary elections.
What are the general elections?
These nine judges preside over the highest level of court in the state. They are elected to serve 6 year terms.
Who are the state Supreme Court justices?
This voting system was introduced in the late 1800s, replacing public, non-secret voting with ballots filled out silently in private. It also scheduled state, local, and federal elections to all take place on the same day.
What is the Australian secret ballot?
The two-thirds majority gained in this election during the Reconstruction Era overruled a presidential veto against one of the Reconstruction amendments.
What were the 1866 midterm elections?
This amendment prohibits denying someone the right to vote on the basis of race.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This term refers to a voter-proposed law, adjustment to a law, or repeal that makes its way onto ballots via gaining a minimum amount of petition signatures within a certain amount of time.
What is an initiative?
This official oversees the monitoring of the state government's funds, investigates fraud reports, and overall assists in keeping the government accountable when the need arises.
Who is the state auditor?
This was the last state to adopt the Australian secret ballot.
What is Kentucky?
This election literally tore the nation apart.
What was the election of 1860?
When was 2022?
This term refers to a proposed edit or repeal of a pre-existing law that is placed on a ballot for voters to decide on. These can make their way to the ballot via voter-driven initiatives or be referred to voters by the legislative body. Examples of this on this year's ballot include the proposed repeal on the WA state millionaires' tax.
What is a referendum?
Who is the (county) prosecuting attorney?