2011 United States elections

2011 United States elections

← Congressional special elections
Seats contested	4
Net seat change	0
2011 Congressional special election results map      Democratic hold      Republican hold      Democratic gain      Republican gain
Gubernatorial elections
Seats contested	4
Net seat change	0
2011 Gubernatorial election results map      Democratic hold      Republican hold

The 2011 United States elections were held (for the most part) on Tuesday, November 8. This was an

No regularly scheduled elections for the United States Congress occurred in 2011, and instead only four special elections were held. Eventually, there was no net seat changes by the political parties.

• California's 36th district: Democrat Jane Harman resigned from office. Democrat Janice Hahn
  was elected on July 12 to replace Harman.
• Nevada's 2nd district: Republican Representative Dean Heller was appointed to replace John Ensign after the latter resigned from his seat in the U.S. Senate. Republican Mark Amodei
  was elected on September 13 to replace Heller.
• New York's 26th district: Republican Chris Lee resigned from office. Democrat Kathy Hochul
  was elected on May 24 to replace Lee.
• New York's 9th district: Democrat Anthony Weiner resigned from office. Republican Bob Turner
  was elected on September 13 to replace Weiner.

There were three regularly scheduled elections and one special election for governorships in 2011. None of these four changed party hands.

• Kentucky: Incumbent Democratic Governor Steve Beshear
  was re-elected.
• jungle primary
  .
• Mississippi: Incumbent Republican Governor Haley Barbour was term limited out of office. Republican Phil Bryant
  was elected to succeed him.
• President of the West Virginia Senate
  and Acting Governor, was elected to replace Manchin.

Four states –

These were the first elections to be affected by redistricting after the 2010 census.[1] Additionally, the first wave of recall elections occurred in Wisconsin, while Republicans lost seats, they maintained a narrow majority. A second wave would occur in 2012.

Republicans flipped control of the Virginia Senate, thereby establishing a trifecta. In Mississippi, Republicans won the state House for the first time since 1876, and solidified control of the state Senate after several Democrats switched parties earlier in the year, giving Republicans control of the chamber. Republicans obtained a trifecta in the state for the first time since 1876 as a result. In Louisiana, Republicans solidified control of both houses of the legislature after several Democrats switched parties at the beginning of the year, which gave Republicans control of both chambers and a trifecta for the first time since 1873.

Initiatives and referendums

Nine states,

Judicial elections

Four states,

• Baltimore: Sheila Dixon resigned in 2010. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
  is serving as Baltimore's interim mayor until a replacement is elected.
• Charlotte: Incumbent Anthony Foxx
  was re-elected to a second term.
• Chicago: Richard M. Daley declined to run for a seventh term. Rahm Emanuel
  was elected on February 22 as Daley's successor.
• U.S. Senate in 2012. Dwaine Caraway served as Dallas' interim mayor until Mike Rawlings
  was elected in a runoff on June 18.
• Denver: John Hickenlooper resigned after he took office as Governor of Colorado in January 2011. Bill Vidal served as Denver's interim mayor until Michael Hancock
  was elected in a runoff on June 7.
• Fort Worth: Incumbent Mike Moncrief declined to run for another term. Betsy Price
  was elected as the successor.
• Greensboro: Incumbent Bill Knight was unseated by Robbie Perkins.
• Indianapolis: Incumbent Greg Ballard
  was re-elected.
• Alvin Brown
  was elected in a runoff on May 17.
• Carolyn Goodman
  , was elected to succeed him.
• Phoenix: Incumbent Phil Gordon was term-limited out of office. Greg Stanton
  was elected in a runoff.
• Portland, Maine: This was the first race since a citywide 2010 referendum recreated the elected mayor position, which had previously been removed in 1923. Former Maine state senator Michael F. Brennan
  was selected by Portland voters, defeating 14 other candidates.
• Raleigh: Incumbent Charles Meeker declined to run for another term. Nancy McFarlane
  was elected to succeed him.
• Edwin M. Lee
  served as San Francisco's interim mayor, then was elected to a full term in his own right.
• Tampa: Incumbent Pam Iorio was term-limited out of office. Bob Buckhorn
  was elected in a runoff on March 22.
• Tucson: Incumbent Bob Walkup
  declined to run for another term. Democrat Jonathan Rothschild was elected as his successor.

These tables show the partisan results of the Congressional special elections and gubernatorial races in 2011. Bold indicates a change in control.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2011 elections in the United States.

• Lessons from Election 2011
• "State Elections Legislation Database", Ncsl.org, Washington, D.C.: National Conference of State Legislatures, State legislation related to the administration of elections introduced in 2011 through...2020
• 2011 state legislative elections on Ballotpedia
• 2011 ballot measures and potential 2011 ballot measures on Ballotpedia
• 2011 Judicial Elections on
  Judgepedia