The Green Papers: District of Columbia 2008 General Election
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Primary: Tuesday 9 September 2008
General Election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Electoral Votes:3(0.56% of 538)
Governor:0 
Senators:0 
2002-2010 Representatives:0(0.00% of 435)
2000 Census:574,096 (0.20% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):411,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):354,410
Capital:District of Columbia
Tuesday 9 September 2008 polling hours 7:00a EDT (1100 UTC) to 8:00p EDT (0000 UTC).
Tuesday 4 November 2008 polling hours 7:00a EST (1200 UTC) to 8:00p EST (0100 UTC).
 

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District of Columbia State and Local Government

District of Columbia 2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions:
Democrats, Republicans, Third Parties

           

President  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 3 (Winner-take-all)
Up for election in 2008

Mayor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Home Rule

  Democratic Mayor Adrian M. Fenty
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Delegate to the House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2008. Home Rule

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Seat up for election
Democratic Territorial Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton
First elected: 1990; re-elected: 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
  Candidate Democratic     Territorial Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton
FEC H0DC00058: $221,908
  Candidate Socialist Workers Party     Seth Dellinger
 Non-voting Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. A candidate must receive a majority of the popular vote in order to be elected as Delegate to the House. A runoff election is scheduled in the event that no candidate receives the requisite majority.

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 (affiliates): 2 incumbents, 1 candidate
  Republican
Major Third Parties
  D.C. Statehood Green (affiliate of Green)
  Libertarian
Other Third Parties
  Socialist Workers Party: 1 candidate
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  Not readily classifiable
 
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

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 the person so listed will actually appear on the ballot.
 
FEC indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary "Total Receipts" for candidates for Federal Office.

Links Links to other web sites

Election Authority
  District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics
Legislature   Links to State Legislatures
  Council of the District of Columbia
  District of Columbia Official Code
Democratic
  D.C. Democratic Party
  The Democratic Party - DC
Republican
  Washington DC Republican Committee
Third Party
  Communist Party of the District of Columbia
  DC Statehood Green Party
  Libertarian Party of the District of Columbia
Media & others
  Capital Community News
  City Desk - Progressive Review
  DC's Political Report - District of Columbia
  DCWatch
  LegalTimes.com
  Politics1.com - District of Columbia
  The Common Denominator
  The District Chronicles
  The Georgetowner
  The Hill
  The InTowner
  The Washington Examiner - Alexandria, Virgina
  The Washington Post
  The Washington Times
  Washington Business Journal
  Washington Business Journal
  WJLA TV - ABC
  WRC TV - NBC
  WTOP AM/FM
  WTOP AM/FM - WXTR AM
  WTTG TV - Fox
  WUSA TV - CBS

 


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