The Green Papers: Oregon 2005 Off Year Elections
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Electoral Votes:7(1.30% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 2 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:5(1.15% of 435)
2000 Census:3,428,543 (1.22% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):2,530,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):1,943,699
Capital:Salem
 

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Oregon State and Local Government

           

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

Class 2   Republican   Senator Gordon H. Smith
First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Class 3   Democratic   Senator Ron Wyden
First elected to finish out the term in a Special Election: 30 January 1996 [held to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Robert Packwood (Republican): 1 October 1995 (Oregon state law does not permit the state's Governor to make temporary appointments to fill vacancies in the United States Senate)]; elected to a full term: 1998; re-elected: 2004.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 3-term period, All Governors

    Democratic   Governor Ted Kulongoski
First elected: 2002
Chair up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

109th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
4 Democratic (4 Undetermined);
1 Republican (1 Undetermined)

CD 1   Democratic   Congressman David Wu
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 2   Republican   Congressman Gregory Paul Walden
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 3   Democratic   Congressman Earl Blumenauer
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 4   Democratic   Congressman Peter A. DeFazio
First elected: 1986
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 5   Democratic   Congressman Darlene Hooley
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

    Democratic   Secretary of State Bill Bradbury
Appointed: 1999; first elected: 2000; 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

    Democratic   Attorney General Hardy Myers
First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2000, 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

    Democratic   Treasurer Randall Edwards
First elected: 2000; re-elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Commissioner of Labor and Industries  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

    Nonpartisan   Labor and Industries Commissioner Dan Gardner
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Superintendent of Public Instruction  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

    Nonpartisan   Public Instruction Superintendent Susan Castillo
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

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.

  Constitution
  Democratic
  Libertarian
  Nonpartisan
  Not readily classifiable
  Pacific Green
  Republican
  Socialist Party USA
  Working Families

 


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