WASHINGTON (BP) — No Southern Baptist members of Congress lost their seats in voting Nov. 4.
Both senators and all 23 representatives who are members of Southern Baptist churches and were on the general-election ballot gained victories.
Two members of the same Southern Baptist church faced off to fill the seat of retiring congressman Terry Everett of Alabama. Democrat Bobby Bright edged Republican Jay Love by less than 1,800 votes out of more than 286,000 ballots cast. Bright and Love both are members of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala.
In Virginia, only Rep. Randy Forbes (R), who represents the fourth district is a member of a Southern Baptist Convention church — Great Bridge Baptist Church in Chesapeake. The congregation also is affiliated with the Baptist General Association of Virginia. Forbes won a fifth congressional term on Nov. 4.