DemocratNot in office · last served 2023Last on a ballot: Nov 2019

Richard L. Saslaw

Last held office: Virginia State Senate, District 35 (1979–2023). Ran in 16 elections between 1975 and 2019, winning 16.

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

Career

Offices held, and every time Saslaw was on a ballot. Filled marks are general elections won; hollow marks are primaries; an orange outline is a loss.

Margin: how far Saslaw finished ahead of (+) or behind (−) the runner-up.

Year	Office	Stage	Result	Opponents	Share	Margin
2019	Virginia State Senate, District 35	General	Won	Unopposed	92.5%	—
2015	Virginia State Senate, District 35	General	Won	Terrence Wayne Modglin (G)	74.4%	D+50.4
2015	Virginia State Senate, District 35	Primary	Won	Unopposed	—	—
2011	Virginia State Senate, District 35	General	Won	Robert C. Sarvis (R), Katherine Ann Pettigrew (G)	61.7%	D+25.7
2007	Virginia State Senate, District 35	General	Won	Mario T. Palmiotto (G)	78.8%	D+57.6
2003	Virginia State Senate, District 35	General	Won	C. W. Levy (I)	83.4%	D+66.7
1999	Virginia State Senate, District 35	General	Won	R. H. Neitz (R), D. D. Goode (I)	57.6%	D+17.1
1995	Virginia State Senate, District 35	General	Won	Paul R. Brubaker (R)	57%	D+14.1
1991	Virginia State Senate, District 35	General	Won	Christyanne Mari Collins (R)	60.2%	D+20.5
1987	Virginia State Senate, District 35	General	Won	Unopposed	99.8%	—
1983	Virginia State Senate, District 35	General	Won	Nancy E. Schiffman (R)	58.4%	D+16.7
1979	Virginia State Senate, District 35	General	Won	James R. Tate (R)	52.8%	D+5.6
1979	Virginia State Senate, District 35	Primary	Won	Jean R. Packard (D)	60.1%	+20.2
1977	Virginia House of Delegates, District 19	General	Won	Warren E. Barry (R), Robert E. Harris (R), Gladys B. Keating (D)	10.8%	R+1.9
1977	Virginia House of Delegates, District 19	Primary	Won	Gladys B. Keating (D), Thomas Jefferson Rothrock (D), V. L. Lee Strang Jr. (D)	19.3%	−0.9
1975	Virginia House of Delegates, District 19	General	Won	Thomas Jefferson Rothrock (D), Warren E. Barry (R), Robert E. Harris (R)	10.4%	R+1.0