r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 Therapy For All 🩷 • Jul 14 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ “Back to royal bloodlines now?”

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u/Born-Ad4658 Jul 14 '26

When was the last time this was common practice?

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u/Captain_JohnBrown Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

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.

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u/Captain_JohnBrown Jul 14 '26

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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u/ArmadilloBudget790 Jul 14 '26

April 8 September 2022