Vacancies are filled by gubernatorial appointment, but an appointee is required to stand for election to a full six-year term the following year.

From 1926 to 1928, membership was once again a gubernatorial appointment.

The two houses are similar in most respects; the Senate alone holds the right to confirm gubernatorial appointments to certain offices.

Vacancies in the legislature are filled by gubernatorial appointment.

Under this arrangement, a justice could enter office either through gubernatorial appointment (to fill a vacancy) or by winning a partisan election.

Such a rule would greatly expand previous executive orders barring party officials from about 600 state jobs filled by gubernatorial appointment.

Clark's road to a gubernatorial appointment was long and complex.

The seat is always filled by election, never by gubernatorial appointment.

Most states give this responsibility to gubernatorial appointments, or an election by the people at large.

But often those elections have come only after gubernatorial appointments allowed them to gain name recognition and the support of their party.