The candidate cannot hold any other public office in the state or federal government during a senate term.

Thomas completed the final year of his Senate term but did not run again in 2003.

He then won re-election in 2004 to a full senate term with 58% of the vote.

In 2011, she was elected to her third Senate term without opposition.

He was re-elected to a second Senate term in 1984.

In 1940 he ran for governor and resigned the remaining two years of his Senate term.

Gravolet died less than a year into his third Senate term.

He was re-elected to a fifth Senate term in 2006.

He also said he had not made up his mind whether to run for a fourth Senate term next year.

"I came to do a job, not join a club," he told an interviewer during his first Senate term.