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In this month’s federal vacancy count, Ballotpedia tracked nominations, confirmations, and vacancies from December 3, 2019, to January 2, 2020. Ballotpedia publishes the federal vacancy count at the start of each month. HIGHLIGHTS Vacancies: There have been three new judicial vacancies since the November 2019 report. There are 72 vacancies out of 870 active Article…

U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) resigned from the Senate on December 31, 2019. Isakson had announced that he would resign his seat at the end of the year due to health reasons on August 28, 2019. Isakson was first elected to the Senate in 2004 after incumbent Zell Miller (D) retired. He was re-elected in…

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled on December 30, 2019, in relation to the recall petition targeting state Rep. Larry Inman (R), that a missing word was not a valid reason to throw out the 13,870 signatures submitted in the recall effort. The court found that, “The recall petition is proper because the reasons give for…

On December 31, 2019, seven confirmed nominees to federal judgeships received commission for seven United States District Courts. Gary R. Brown was first nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York by President Donald Trump (R) on May 15, 2018, to succeed Judge Sandra Feuerstein, who assumed senior status on…

State Sen. Bobby Zirkin (D) resigned from the Maryland State Senate on January 2, 2020. Zirkin had announced on December 3, 2019, that he would resign after 20 years in the Maryland legislature in order to practice law and spend more time with his family. Zirkin was first elected to represent District 11 in the…

Donald Trump appointed and the Senate confirmed 187 Article III federal judges through December 31, 2019, his third year in office. This is the second-most Article III judicial appointments through this point in a presidency of all presidents dating back to Theodore Roosevelt. Only Jimmy Carter (197) had more.   The average number of federal…

A new state legislative special election has been added to our list. The special election is for the District 13 seat in the Georgia State Senate on February 4, 2020. The general runoff is on March 3 if no candidate receives a majority of the February vote, and the filing deadline is on January 6.

A new state legislative special election has been added to our list. The special election is for the 37th Middlesex District seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives on March 31, 2020. The primary is on March 3, and the filing deadline is on January 28.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) outraised its Democratic counterpart by more than two-to-one for a seventh consecutive month, while the Democratic House committee outraised its Republican counterpart, according to December 2019 campaign finance reports filed with the FEC. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) raised $6.2 million and spent $3.2 million last month, while the…

As of December 30, 2019, 2,164 major party candidates have filed with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to run for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in 2020. So far, 319 candidates are filed to run for Senate. Of those, 272—143 Democrats and 129 Republicans—are from one of the two major political parties. In…