The Green Papers: Mississippi 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:6(1.12% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
2002-2010 Representatives:4(0.92% of 435)
2000 Census:2,852,927 (1.01% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):2,047,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):1,739,858
Capital:Jackson
 

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Mississippi State and Local Government


If no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the primary, the two top vote-getters will proceed to a runoff. The candidate who leads in this runoff (second primary) shall be nominated as a Party's candidate for the office.

To win a State-based statewide office, a candidate must receive 50% or more of the vote and carry 62 or more of the 122 House districts. Otherwise, the House chooses between the top two vote-getters in January.

 
           

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

Class 1 Republican Senator Roger F. Wicker
Appointed 31 December 2007 to fill the vacancy caused by the 18 December 2007 resignation of Senator Trent Lott. First elected in a special election: 4 November 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

Class 2 Republican Senator Thad Cochran
First elected: 1978; re-elected: 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002, 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2014

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2007, 2011. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime, All Governors

  Republican Governor Haley Barbour
First elected: 2003; re-elected: 2007
Chair up for election: Tuesday 8 November 2011
The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election.
Open Chair - At term limit

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2007, 2011

  Republican Lieutenant Governor Phil Bryant
First elected: 2007
Seat up for election: Tuesday 8 November 2011

111th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 111th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
3 Democratic (3 Undetermined);
1 Republican (1 Undetermined)

CD 1
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Democratic Congressman Travis W. Childers
First elected in a special election 13 May 2008 (re: the appointment of Congressman Roger Wicker to the U.S. Senate Class 1 seat)
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 2
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Democratic Congressman Bennie G. Thompson
First elected in Special Election, 13 April 1993, re: resignation of Congressman Mike Espy, 21 January 1993
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 3
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Republican Congressman Gregg Harper
First elected: 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 4
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Democratic Congressman Gene Taylor
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2007, 2011

  Republican Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann
First elected: 2007
Seat up for election: Tuesday 8 November 2011

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2007, 2011

  Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood
First elected: 2003; re-elected: 2007
Seat up for election: Tuesday 8 November 2011

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2007, 2011

  Republican Treasurer Tate Reeves
First elected: 2003; re-elected: 2007
Seat up for election: Tuesday 8 November 2011

Auditor of Public Accounts  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2007, 2011

  Republican Auditor of Public Accounts Stacey E. Pickering
First elected: 2007
Seat up for election: Tuesday 8 November 2011

Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2007, 2011

  Republican Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Lester Spell, Jr.
First elected as a Democrat: 1995; re-elected: 1999, 2003; re-elected: 2007 as a Republican
Seat up for election: Tuesday 8 November 2011

Commissioner of Insurance  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2007, 2011

  Republican Insurance Commissioner Michael Jackson "Mike" Chaney
First elected: 2007
Seat up for election: Tuesday 8 November 2011

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): 4 incumbents
  Republican: 10 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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2009 Primaries and Runoffs for Statewide offices/Congress
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