Earl Ray Tomblin
Last held office: Governor of West Virginia (2011–2016). Ran in 19 elections between 1974 and 2012, winning 19.
- Last margin
- +5.0
- Won 2012
- Elections
- 19
- 1974–2012
Source: Wikidata, congress-legislators and Open States; 99chambers legislative records
Career
Offices held, and every time Tomblin was on a ballot. Filled marks are general elections won; hollow marks are primaries; an orange outline is a loss.
Source: 99chambers results archive (MEDSL, Klarner, state election offices)
Every race Tomblin has run
Baseline: how the seat voted for president in the same or nearest year. Running ahead of it means Tomblin won voters the party’s presidential nominee did not; primaries have no baseline.
Source: 99chambers results archive
Seats Tomblin has held
- Governor of West Virginia · 2011–2016
- West Virginia State Senate, District 7 · 1980–2012
- West Virginia House of Delegates, District 16 · 1974–1980
Source: 99chambers results archive
Who Tomblin has run against
- Bill Maloney (R) · 2012 election, won
- Billy Marcum (R) · 2008 election, won
- Stephen Ray Smith (R) · 1996 election, won
- Emil E. Baldwin Sr. (R) · 1984 election, won
- Dennis J. Fillinger (R) · 1980 election, won
- Thomas W. Mathis (D) · 1978 election, won
Source: 99chambers results archive
In the polls
Included in 5 polls; Tomblin’s best result was 47% (West Virginia Governor, 2011).
Tomblin’s polls in the database →