- Off-year elections
In American politics, an off-year election is generally considered to be the general elections held in even-numbered years. These elections rarely feature any election to a national office, few state legislative elections, and very few gubernatorial elections. The vast majority of these elections are held at the municipal level. On the ballot are many
mayor s, a wide variety ofcitizen initiative s in various states, and many more local public offices.The previous off-year elections were scheduled for
November 6 ,2007 .Kentucky andMississippi elected governors on the 2007 Election Day.Louisiana also held a governor's election in 2007; however, Louisiana's election dates did not conincide with the national day. Louisiana held itsjungle primary onOctober 20 .Five states hold off-year state legislative elections:
Kentucky ,Virginia ,New Jersey ,Louisiana , andMississippi , although Louisiana and Mississippi elect their state legislators to four-year terms and therefore necessitate elections only every fourth year (in 2003, 2007, 2011, etc.). All butLouisiana held their elections onNovember 6th in2007 .Louisiana 's general election was held onNovember 17th .ee also
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United States general elections, 2007
*Midterm elections
*General election
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