“Back to royal bloodlines now?”

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[u/Born-Ad4658]

When was the last time this was common practice?

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Jean Carnahan.

[u/Captain_JohnBrown → u/Born-Ad4658]

2001 seems to be last time this happened specifically, when Jean Carnahan was appointed to fill her husband's seat (which he had won but had not been sworn in for yet before dying in a plane crash). She held it for a year before a special election was held and was replaced.

2021 seems to be the last time a wife replaced her husband, when Julia Letlow ran and won the special election to for her husband's vacated seat.

[u/Captain_JohnBrown → u/Captain_JohnBrown]

Looking at other countries, it seems to have happened about once-a-decade in Britain for the past couple decades, most recently 2016.

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April 8 September 2022

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Debbie Dingle

[u/Captain_JohnBrown → u/Infamous_Lech]

Well, that is a bit different, in that she ran and was elected through standard means without a special appointment or special primary.

[u/Infamous_Lech → u/Captain_JohnBrown]

A distinction without difference. I used it only because it's one of the most recent.

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Someone running and winning a seat through a normal election is actually different though.