The Green Papers: Colorado 2009 General Election
This page is for offices up for election in 2009. Find 2010 elections here.
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Electoral Votes:9(1.67% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 2 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:7(1.61% of 435)
2000 Census:4,311,882 (1.53% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):3,067,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):2,274,152
Capital:Denver
 

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Colorado State and Local Government


NOTE re: elections to the GENERAL ASSEMBLY

COLORADO elects approximately half of its 35-member State Senate every two years, State Senators so elected serving four-year terms.

In 2008, State Senators representing the following 18 Senatorial Districts: 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 33, 35 are up for election to 4-year terms; State Senators from the remaining 17 Senatorial Districts were elected to four-year terms in 2006 and will be up for election again in 2010.

The entire 65-member House of Representatives is elected every two years and, thus, all 65 Representatives are up for election in 2008.

The state legislators who will meet over the two years from 2009 through 2010 will make up the 67th COLORADO GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

 
           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 111th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 2 Democratic Senator Mark E. Udall
First elected: 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2014

Class 3 Democratic Senator Michael F. Bennet
Appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Ken Salazar on 21 January 2009 after entering upon his duties as Secretary of the Interior; appointed 21 January 2009 and sworn 22 January 2009
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
  

20 January 2009: Senator Ken Salazar, who was first elected in 2004, will resign his Senate seat tomorrow in order to become Secretary of the Interior in the Obama Administration. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate viva voce (by voice vote).

22 January 2009: Colorado Governor Bill Ritter's nominee, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet (Democratic), is sworn.


Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

  Democratic Governor Willliam "Bill" Ritter, Jr.
First elected: 2006
Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Elected on a ticket- and nominated- with the Governor

  Democratic Lieutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

111th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 111th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
5 Democratic (5 Undetermined);
2 Republican (2 Undetermined)

CD 1
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Democratic Congressman Diana L. DeGette
First elected: 1996
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 2
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Democratic Congressman Jared Polis
First elected: 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 3
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Democratic Congressman John Tony Salazar
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 4
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Democratic Congressman Elizabeth Helen "Betsy" Markey
First elected: 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 5
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Republican Congressman Douglas L. "Doug" Lamborn
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 6
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Republican Congressman Mike Coffman
First elected: 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 7
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Democratic Congressman Edwin "Ed" Perlmutter
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

  Democratic Secretary of State Bernie Buescher
Appointed: 14 January 2009 (to fill the seat vacated by Secretary of State Mike Coffman's election to Congress)
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
 

Secretary of State Mike Coffman, who was first elected in 2006, was elected to Congress CD 6 in 2008. Governor Willliam "Bill" Ritter, Jr. selected state Representative Bernie Buescher as Colorado's Secretary of State in December 2008. Mr. Buescher was sworn 14 January 2009.


Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

  Democratic Treasurer Cary Kennedy
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

  Republican Attorney General John W. Suthers
Appointed: 5 January 2005 as an Independent; First elected as a Republican: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

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): 11 incumbents
  Republican: 3 incumbents
 
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 a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.
 
FEC indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary "Total Receipts" for candidates for Federal Office.

 


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  Close Contests Summary - Decision by 2% or less  
  Contests Where No Candidate Received a Majority  
 
2009 Primaries and Runoffs for Statewide offices/Congress
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  Change in Representation in U.S. House by REGION and Subregion between 2000 and 2002  
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  Political Party Floor Leaders in the Congress of the United States