The Green Papers: Colorado 2009 General Election |
Colorado
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress |
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NOTE re: elections to the GENERAL ASSEMBLYCOLORADO 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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 {map} |
Democratic | Congressman Diana L. DeGette First elected: 1996 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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CD 2 {map} |
Democratic | Congressman Jared Polis First elected: 2008 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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CD 3 {map} |
Democratic | Congressman John Tony Salazar First elected: 2004 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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CD 4 {map} |
Democratic | Congressman Elizabeth Helen "Betsy" Markey First elected: 2008 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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CD 5 {map} |
Republican | Congressman Douglas L. "Doug" Lamborn First elected: 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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CD 6 {map} |
Republican | Congressman Mike Coffman First elected: 2008 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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CD 7 {map} |
Democratic | Congressman Edwin "Ed" Perlmutter First elected: 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |