The Green Papers: Mississippi 2005 Off Year Elections
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Electoral Votes:6(1.12% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
2002-2010 Representatives:4(0.92% of 435)
2000 Census:2,852,927 (1.01% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):2,047,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):1,739,858
Capital:Jackson
 

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Mississippi State and Local Government

           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 109th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1   Republican   Senator Trent Lott
First elected: 1988; re-elected: 1994, 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Class 2   Republican   Senator Thad Cochran
First elected: 1978; re-elected: 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2003, 2007. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime, All Governors

    Republican   Governor Haley Barbour
First elected: 2003
Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2007
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2003, 2007

    Republican   Lieutenant Governor Amy Tuck
First elected: 1999 (ran as a Democrat)
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2007

109th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
2 Republican (2 Undetermined);
2 Democratic (2 Undetermined)

CD 1   Republican   Congressman Roger F. Wicker
First elected: 1994
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 2   Democratic   Congressman Bennie G. Thompson
First elected in Special Election, 13 April 1993, re: resignation of Congressman Mike Espy, 21 January 1993
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 3   Republican   Congressman Charles W. "Chip" Pickering, Jr.
First elected: 1996
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 4   Democratic   Congressman Gene Taylor
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2003, 2007

    Democratic   Secretary of State Eric Clark
First elected: 1995; re-elected: 1999, 2003
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2007

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2003, 2007

    Democratic   Attorney General Jim Hood
First elected: 2003
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2007

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2003, 2007

    Republican   Treasurer Tate Reeves
First elected: 2003
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2007

Auditor of Public Accounts  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2003, 2007

    Republican   Auditor of Public Accounts Phil Bryant
Appointed: 1996; first elected: 1999, 2003
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2007

Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2003, 2007

    Democratic   A & C Commissioner Lester Spell, Jr.
First elected: 1995; re-elected: 1999, 2003
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2007

Commissioner of Insurance  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2003, 2007

    Democratic   Insurance Commissioner George Dale
First elected: 1975, re-elected: 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2007

Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

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  Democratic
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  Libertarian
  Reform
  Republican

 


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