RepublicanNot in office · last served 2001Last on a ballot: Nov 1997

James S. Gilmore III

Last held office: Governor of Virginia (1997–2001). Ran in 1 election in 1997, winning 1.

Last office: Governor of Virginia

Last margin
+13.5
Won 1997
Elections
1
1997

Source: Wikidata, congress-legislators and Open States; 99chambers legislative records

Career

Offices held, and every time Gilmore 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 Gilmore has run

Baseline: how the seat voted for president in the same or nearest year. Running ahead of it means Gilmore won voters the party’s presidential nominee did not; primaries have no baseline.

YearOfficeStageResultOpponentsShareMarginBaselineAgainst baseline
1997Governor of VirginiaGeneralWonDon Beyer (D)56.7%R+13.5R+2.1+11.4

Source: 99chambers results archive

Seats Gilmore has held

Source: 99chambers results archive

Who Gilmore has run against

Source: 99chambers results archive