The 2008 United States elections were held on November 4. Democratic Senator Barack Obama of Illinois won the presidential election. Democrats picked up net gains of eight Senate seats and 21 seats in the House of Representatives. The New Hampshire Senate saw the election of the first ever female majority in any chamber of any state legislature in United States history.
About 2008 United States elections in brief
The 2008 United States elections were held on November 4. Democratic Senator Barack Obama of Illinois won the presidential election. Democrats picked up net gains of eight Senate seats and 21 seats in the House of Representatives. The 2006 elections and 2008 elections represented the first time since the 1930s that one party made substantial gains in Congress in two consecutive elections. Obama won the number of electors necessary to be elected president and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009. The 2008 presidential election was the first since 1952 in which neither an incumbent president nor an incumbent vice president was a candidate.
The New Hampshire Senate saw the election of the first ever female majority in any chamber of any state legislature in United States history. Overall, the Democrats took control of six legislative bodies to the Republicans’ four. After the election, Democrats controlled both houses in state legislatures of 27 states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
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