The Green Papers: 2006 Midterm Election
 
Copyright www.flags.net/UNST.htm 2006 Governor's Chairs
by State

This is a list of the current Governors' chairs, the incumbents occupying them, and the candidacy status of said incumbents. Chairs up for election in the year 2006 are marked as such.

Friday May 26, 2006: The United States Senate confirmed Governor Dirk Kempthorne of Idaho as Secretary of the Interior by a vote of 85 yeas, 8 nays and 7 not voting. Governor Kempthorne was first elected Governor of Idaho in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. He served in U.S. Senate (elected: 1992) and was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the Secretary of the Interior on 16 March 2006. Upon the confirmation of Governor Kempthorne, Lieutenant Governor James E. "Jim" Risch (Republican) ascended to the position of Governor of Idaho. Mr. Risch was was first elected as Lieutenant Governor in 2002 and was renominated for Lieutenant Governor in the 23 May 2006 Republican Primary.

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Gubernatorial Links

           

California  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Peace And Freedom 69,934 0.81% Janice Jordan
Peace And Freedom 2004 Vice Presidential nominee
Total 8,679,416 100.00%  

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.

Major Parties
  Democratic
  Democratic-Farmer Labor
  Republican
Major Third Parties
  Green
  Green-Rainbow
  Libertarian
  Pacific Green
  Reform
Other Third Parties
  Alaskan Independence
  American
  American Constitution
  American Independent
  Concerned Citizens
  Conservative
  Constitution
  Independence
  Independent American
  Liberty Union
  Marijuana
  Nebraska
  Peace And Freedom
  Populist
  Quit Raising Taxes
  Rent is too High
  Right to Life
  Socialist Party USA
  Socialist Workers Party
  U.S. Taxpayers
  Veterans Party of America
  Working Families
Independents
  By Petition
  Independent
  No Party Affiliation
  Unaffiliated
  Unenrolled
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  None of these candidates
  Scattering
  Write-in
 

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from an election authority that this candidate is actually on the ballot.


 


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