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1929 Virginia gubernatorial election ← 1925 November 5, 1929 1933 → Nominee John Garland Pollard William Moseley Brown Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 169,329 99,650 Percentage 62.8% 36.9% County and independent city results Pollard: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Brown: 50–60% 60–70% Governor before election Harry F. Byrd Democratic Elected Governor John Garland ...
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1929, in the state of Virginia. Virginia holds its gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, following the United States presidential election year.
On election day, 5 November 1929, Democratic nominee James Hubert Price won the election by a margin of 80,805 votes against his opponent Republican nominee C. B. Jones, thereby retaining Democratic control over the office of lieutenant governor. Price was sworn in as the 23rd lieutenant governor of Virginia on 20 January 1930. [2]
The day after his fellow Democrats suffered stinging election losses, including the governor’s race in Virginia, President Biden offered his diagnosis for the Republican show of strength ...
As Terry McAuliffe made his case for the Democratic nomination for governor of Virginia this summer, he argued the state wanted “seasoned” leadership. The former governor, like the new ...
October 24–29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government). October 24 – The Mount Hope Bridge, connecting Portsmouth to Bristol in Rhode Island, opens to traffic.
From 1977 until 2013, Virginia had elected a governor of the opposite political party compared to the President of the United States of the time. In 2017, Virginia returned to electing a governor of the opposite political party compared to the current President by electing Ralph Northam. This happened again when Glenn Youngkin was elected in 2021.
A federal judge on Friday halted a Virginia program that purged the state’s voter rolls based on indications that a person might be a noncitizen and ordered officials to restore the ...