He left the school board to take his legislative seat in the spring of 1944.

Now they will hold 58 percent of all Southern legislative seats.

Under state law, the governor is not required to call a special election for a legislative seat.

Defeated in the election of 1898 he spent four years without a legislative seat.

He lost his legislative seat in the 2001 provincial election.

Nationwide, 6,214 state legislative seats are up this year, or 85 percent of the total.

They hold four of six local legislative seats and are campaigning for another.

Indeed, in 2000, Republicans captured most of the area's legislative seats and have held them ever since.

Suddenly, with his sister near triumph, he decided to go home and run for 24 legislative seats.

In Illinois two years ago, a legislative seat was decided by four ballots.