On November 3, the two Virginia state legislators who were running for re-election were re-elected. They are Lacey Putney in the 19th district, and Watkins M. Abbitt in the 59th district.
Putney was re-elected with 64.1% of the vote. His only opponents were a Democrat, Lewis Medlin, who got 20.6%, and a Constitution Party candidate, Will Smith, who got 15.1%.
Watkins Abbitt was unopposed.
Another independent candidate, Gordon Helsel, lost to his Republican opponent, but placed ahead of his Democratic opponent. The vote in the 91st district was: Republican Tom Gear 48.3%, independent Gordon Helsel 32.6%, Democrat Sam Eure 19.0%.
Thanks for story.
Abbitt, and Will Smith were among the 27 Independent Green endorsee/nominees on ballot for House of Delegates in Virginia.
Interesting year.
….Gordon also outraised the incumbent, with something over $100,000…
Of the 27 Indy Green Endorsed/nominated candidates…..20 of them garnered over 1,000 votes each. In comparable races between this year and 2007; races in which the same candidate ran for the same seat we see the following.
District 28 a gain of 4,419 votes over 2007
District 68 a gain of 6,608 votes over 2007
In 2007 both of these races were contested by more than one challenger; this year our candidates were the only challengers.
Virginia’s Independent Greens (IG) of Virginia had 27 endorsee/nominees for House of Delegates (out of 100 seats). The most ever.
Results by District
9th – Sherman “for Rail” Witcher received 20.7% of vote in two way race.
12th – Paul Cornett got 34% of the vote, also two way race.
18th – Todd Jack 17% in three way race.
19th – William Smith 15%, three way race.
28th – Craig “for Rail” Ennis 24.5%, two way race.
29th – Aaron Tweedie 20%, two way race
30th – Matt Carson 25%, two way race
37th – Anna Marie “for Rail” Choi 7%, three candidates on ballot.
39th – Col. Jim “for Rail ” Leslie 1%, four way race.
41st – Monique “for Rail” Berry 2%, three way race.
44th – Gail “for Rail” Parker 2%, three way race.
47th – Josh Reubner (Green Party) 4%, three way race.
57th – Robert Smith 21%, two way race.
59th – Watkins Abbitt – re-elected.
64th – Col. Albert “for Rail” Burchkard 2%, three way race.
65th – Gary Reinhardt 29%, two way race.
68th – William “for Rail” Grogan 30%, two way race.
69th – Shirley Harvey 6%, three way.
70th – Otis Brown 22%, two way.
71st – Silver Persinger 17% two way race.
82nd – John Parmele 4% in three way.
85th – French Mackes 18% in two way race.
89th – Trip Triplin 18% in two way race.
91st – Gordon Hesel 35% in three way race.
100th- John W. Smith 1% in three way race.
Good Green Party interview here.
http://www.sj-r.com/opinions/x1156077345/Bernard-Schoenburg-Green-candidate-Whitney-evolved-from-socialist-past