The Green Papers
Governor's Chairs, Senate, and House Seats
up for Election on 4 November 2008
with only one major party candidate

This table is updated after each state completes its nominating process. Currently, 56 jurisdictions have completed their nominating processes: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Marianas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.


Governor's Chairs, Senate and House Seats...
Open (incumbent not running for re-election)
No incumbent running
Uncontested (one candidate running)
Multiple incumbents running
Only One Major Party Canddidate


 
Alabama
House CD 1
Republican - Congressman Josiah Robins "Jo" Bonner
House CD 6
Republican - Congressman Spencer T. Bachus
House CD 7
Democratic - Congressman Artur Genestre Davis
Arkansas
Senate Class 2
Democratic - Senator Mark Lunsford Pryor
Green - Rebekah Jean Kennedy
House CD 1
Democratic - Congressman Marion Berry
House CD 2
Democratic - Congressman Victor Frederick "Vic" Snyder
Green - Deb McFarland
House CD 3
Republican - Congressman John Nichols Boozman
Green - Abel Noah Tomlinson
House CD 4
Democratic - Congressman Michael Avery "Mike" Ross
Green - Joshua Drake
California
House CD 18
Democratic - Congressman Dennis A. Cardoza
House CD 19
Republican - Congressman George P. Radanovich
House CD 22
Republican - Congressman Kevin McCarthy
House CD 28
Democratic - Congressman Howard L. Berman
House CD 30
Democratic - Congressman Henry A. Waxman
House CD 31
Democratic - Congressman Xavier Becerra
House CD 32
Democratic - Congressman Hilda L. Solis
House CD 37
Democratic - Congressman Laura Richardson
(Republican); Independent - Nicholas "Nick" Dibs
(Democratic); Write-in - Peter Mathews
Write-in; (Republican) - June Viena Pouesi
Write-in; (Democratic) - Lee Davis
House CD 38
Democratic - Congressman Grace Flores Napolitano
Libertarian - Christopher M. Agrella
Florida
House CD 3
Democratic - Congressman Corrine Brown
House CD 17
Democratic - Congressman Kendrick B. Meek
House CD 20
Democratic - Congressman Debbie Wasserman Schultz
No Party Affiliation; (Republican) - Margaret Hostetter
Georgia
House CD 4
Democratic - Congressman Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.
House CD 5
Democratic - Congressman John Lewis
Illinois
House CD 17
Democratic - Congressman Philip G. "Phil" Hare
Kentucky
House CD 5
Republican - Congressman Harold Dallas "Hal" Rogers
Independent - James E. "Jim" Holbert
Louisiana
House CD 3
Democratic - Congressman "Charlie" Melancon, Jr.
House CD 5
Republican - Congressman Rodney Alexander
Massachusetts
House CD 2
Democratic - Congressman Richard E. Neal
House CD 3
Democratic - Congressman James P. "Jim" McGovern
House CD 5
Democratic - Congressman Nicola S. "Niki" Tsongas
House CD 8
Democratic - Congressman Michael E. Capuano
House CD 9
Democratic - Congressman Stephen F. Lynch
House CD 10
Democratic - Congressman William D. "Bill" Delahunt
Michigan
House CD 14
Democratic - Congressman John Conyers, Jr.
Libertarian - Richard J. "Rick" Secula
Green - Clyde K. Shabazz
Mississippi
House CD 1 Special
Nonpartisan; (Democratic) - Travis W. Childers
Nonpartisan; (Republican) - Charles Gregory "Greg" Davis
Missouri
House CD 1
Democratic - Congressman William Lacy Clay, Jr.
Libertarian - Robb E. Cunningham
New Jersey
House CD 10
Democratic - Congressman Donald M. Payne
Socialist Workers Party - Michael Taber
New York
House CD 6
Democratic - Congressman Gregory Weldon Meeks
House CD 9
Democratic; Working Families - Congressman Anthony D. Weiner
Conservative - Alfred F. Donohue
Ohio
House CD 11 Special
Democratic - Warrensville Heights Mayor Marcia L. Fudge
Oregon
House CD 1
Democratic - Congressman David Wu
Independent Party of Oregon; (Republican) - Joel Thomas Haugen
Constitution - Scott Semrau
Libertarian - H. Joe Tabor
Pacific Green - Chris Henry
(Republican); Write-in - Stephan Andrew Brodhead
House CD 4
Democratic - Congressman Peter Anthony "Pete" DeFazio
Constitution - Jaynee L. Germond
Pacific Green - Michael Allan "Mike" Beilstein
Pennsylvania
House CD 14
Democratic - Congressman Mike Doyle
Green - Titus North
(Socialist Workers Party); Write-in - Ryan Scott
Tennessee
House CD 6
Democratic - Congressman Barton Jennings "Bart" Gordon
Independent - Chris Baker
House CD 8
Democratic - Congressman John S. Tanner
Write-in; (Republican) - James L. Hart
House CD 9
Democratic - Congressman Stephen Ira "Steve" Cohen
(Democratic); Independent - Newton Jake "Jake" Ford
Independent - Dewey Clark
Independent - Mary D. "Taylor-Shelby" Wright
Texas
House CD 1
Republican - Congressman Louis B. "Louie" Gohmert
Independent - Roger L. Owen
House CD 2
Republican - Congressman Lloyd "Ted" Poe
Libertarian - Craig Wolfe
House CD 5
Republican - Congressman Jeb Hensarling
Libertarian - Ken Ashby
House CD 9
Democratic - Congressman Alexander "Al" Green
Libertarian - Brad Walters
House CD 11
Republican - Congressman K. Michael "Mike" Conaway
Libertarian - John R. Strohm
House CD 14
Republican - Congressman Ronald E. "Ron" Paul
House CD 16
Democratic - Congressman Silvestre Reyes
Independent - Benjamin Eloy "Ben" Mendoza
Libertarian - Mette A. Baker
House CD 21
Republican - Congressman Lamar Smith
Libertarian - James Arthur Strohm
Vermont
House At-Large
Democratic - Congressman Peter F. Welch
Independent - Mike Bethel
Independent - Jerry Trudell
Progressive - Thomas James Hermann
Independent; (Marijuana) - Cris Ericson
Liberty Union - Jane Newton
Virginia
House CD 3
Democratic - Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott
House CD 9
Democratic - Congressman Frederick C. "Rick" Boucher
West Virginia
House CD 1
Democratic - Congressman Alan Bowlby Mollohan
Wisconsin
House CD 4
Democratic - Congressman Gwendolynne "Gwen" Moore
Purple Party; Independent - Michael D. LaForest
(Republican); Write-in - Dan Sebring
House CD 5
Republican - Congressman F. James "Jim" Sensenbrenner, Jr.
Independent - Robert R. Raymond
 
 
Tally
OfficeCandidates with
No balloted
opposition
Some Third Party
and/or Independent
balloted opposition
Total
CongressmanRepublican6814
Democratic241943
011
SenatorDemocratic011
Totals302959
 
 

'Offices with Only One Major Party Candidate' - for purposes of this listing- are deemed to be those election contests in which there is only one major party candidate (Reference The Classification of Political parties listed on TheGreenPapers.com) running for a given office on the ballot. Candidates of a Major Party who might be running as write-in candidates are not counted as having been formally nominated as Major Party candidates in this tabulation.

 
 

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.

 
 


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