Utah 2005 Off Year Elections

The Green Papers: Utah 2005 Off Year Elections

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Utah
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. 109^th 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

109^th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109^th 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