Adrian Fenty overwhelmingly defeated longtime D.C. Council member Linda Cropp to become Mayor of D.C. in 2006. He won 57 percent of the vote and all 142 precincts of the city in the Democratic primary. He did not face a serious challenge in the general election.

Fenty was first elected to the D.C. Council in 2000 to represent Ward 4 after waging an aggressive door-to-door campaign against four-term incumbent Charlene Drew Jarvis. He won his second council term in 2004 and served for a total of six years.

(Last updated by Brian Westley on March 25, 2009.)

Eleanor Holmes Norton was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990, winning 62 percent of the vote. She attracted 85 percent of the vote in 1992 and 89 percent in 1994.

Since then, she has not dropped below 90 percent of the vote.

In 2008, she defeated Statehood Green Party candidate Maude Louise Hills, clinching her ninth term. The Republican Party did not field a challenger for the 2008 general election.

(Last updated by Brian Westley on March 25, 2009.)