The Green Papers: Utah 2005 Off Year Elections
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Electoral Votes:5(0.93% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:3(0.69% of 435)
2000 Census:2,236,714 (0.79% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):1,465,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):1,123,238
Capital:Salt Lake City
 

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Utah State and Local Government

           

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

Class 1   Republican   Senator Orrin G. Hatch
First elected: 1976; re-elected: 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Class 3   Republican   Senator Robert F. Bennett
First elected: 1992; re-elected: 1998, 2004.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: 3 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

    Republican   Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.
First elected: 2004
Chair up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Elected on a ticket with the Governor

    Republican   Lieutenant Governor Gary Herbert
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

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);
1 Democratic (1 Undetermined)

CD 1   Republican   Congressman Rob Bishop
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 2   Democratic   Congressman Jim Matheson
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 3   Republican   Congressman Chris Cannon
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

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

    Republican   Attorney General Mark Shurtleff
First elected: 2000; re-elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

    Republican   Treasurer Edward T. "Ed" Alter
First elected: 1980; re-elected: 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Auditor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

    Republican   Auditor Auston G. Johnson
Auditor since July 1995; first elected 1996; re-elected: 2000, 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

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
  Green
  Libertarian
  Not readily classifiable
  Personal Choice
  Reform
  Republican

 


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