The Green Papers: Off Year Election 2001

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Governor:1(Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime)
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 3)
2000 Representatives:9(2.07% of 435)
2002 Representatives:9(2.07% of 435)
1990 Census: 5,116,901(2.06% of 248,765,170)
2000 Census: 5,606,260(1.99% of 281,998,273)
Registered Voters (Nov 98): 3,240,657
Estimated Voting age population (Jan 98): 4,042,000 
Tuesday, November 6, 2001 Polls Close: 7 PM CST (0100 UTC)
Candidates seeking office
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Governor  Term limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime, Current Governors  
 Democrat  Governor Bob Holden
First elected: 2000
Chair up for election: Tuesday, November 2, 2004. (The current Governor is NOT affected by this state's term limit).
Senate  6-year term, Current Senate  Senate Electoral Classes
Class 1Democrat  Senator Jean Carnahan
Jean Carahan was appointed by Democatic Governor Roger Wilson to fill the seat of her deceased husband, Governor Mel Carnahan, who was posthumously relected on 7 November 2000. She was sworn in on 3 January 2001.
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
 CandidateRepublican  (pending)
Possible candidates: Former Congressman Jim Talent (announced October 2001)
Class 3Republican  Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond
First elected: 1986; re-elected: 1992, 1998
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 2, 2004.
House of Representatives  2 year term, Current House  
Partisan Composition: 4 Democrats, 5 Republicans
CD 1Democrat  Congressman William Lacy Clay
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 2Republican  Congressman Todd Akin
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 3Democrat  Congressman Richard A. Gephardt
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 4Democrat  Congressman Ike Skelton
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 5Democrat  Congressman Karen McCarthy
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 6Republican  Congressman Samuel B. Graves, Jr.
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 7Republican  Congressman Roy Blunt
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 8Republican  Congressman Jo Ann Emerson
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 9Republican  Congressman Kenny Hulshof
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
Congressional District

Missouri has 114 counties plus 1 city independent of any county and 9 congressional districts: 111 counties are wholly within a given congressional district while 3 counties plus the independent City of St. Louis are divided among more than one congressional district.

UNDIVIDED COUNTIES (wholly within one Congressional District):

  • CD # 3: Jefferson and Ste. Genevieve
  • CD # 4: Bates, Benton, Camden, Cass, Cole, Dallas, Henry, Hickory, Johnson, Laclede, Lafayette, Maries, Miller, Moniteau, Morgan, Osage, Pettis, Pulaski, St. Clair, Saline, Vernon and Webster
  • CD # 6: Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Charlton, Clay, Clinton, Cooper, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt, Howard, Linn, Livingston, Mercer, Nodaway, Platte, Putnam, Ray, Schuyler, Sullivan and Worth
  • CD # 7: Barry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Douglas, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton, Ozark, Polk, Stone and Taney
  • CD # 8: Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent, Dunklin, Howell, Iron, Madison, Mississippi, New Madrid, Oregon, Pemiscot, Perry, Phelps, Reynolds, Ripley, St. Francois, Scott, Shannon, Stoddard, Texas, Washington, Wayne and Wright
  • CD # 9: Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Franklin, Gasconade, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Macon, Marion, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Ralls, Randolph, Scotland, Shelby and Warren

DIVIDED COUNTIES (split between more than one Congressional District):

  • Jackson: CDs 4, 5 and 6
  • St. Charles: CDs 2 and 9
  • St. Louis County: CDs 1, 2 and 3

independent City of St. Louis: CDs 1 and 3
[NOTE: the City of St. Louis is completely independent of St. Louis County which surrounds it.]

CD # 5 is wholly within Jackson County