Election Name: | 1922 United States Senate election in Virginia |
Country: | Virginia |
Flag Year: | 1861 |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1916 United States Senate election in Virginia |
Previous Year: | 1916 |
Next Election: | 1928 United States Senate election in Virginia |
Next Year: | 1928 |
Election Date: | November 7, 1922 |
Image1: | SWANSON, CLAUDE. HONORABLE LCCN2016856628 (3x4a).jpg |
Nominee1: | Claude A. Swanson |
Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 116,393 |
Percentage1: | 71.88% |
Nominee2: | J. W. McGavock |
Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 42,903 |
Percentage2: | 26.50% |
U.S. Senator | |
Before Election: | Claude A. Swanson |
Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
After Election: | Claude A. Swanson |
After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 1922 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 7, 1922. Incumbent Senator Claude A. Swanson was re-elected to a third term after defeating Republican J. W. McGavock. Swanson and fellow Senator Carter Glass were the first U.S. Senators to be elected by popular vote (Swanson ran unopposed in 1916) following the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment.