The Green Papers: General Election 2004 |
2004 Governor's Chairs by State |
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Montana 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2000, 2004. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 4-term period | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican | |||||
Republican | Governor Judy Martz First elected: 2000 Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004 The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit. Open Chair - 13 August 2003: Governor Martz announced that she will not run for re-election in 2004. |
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Total | 446,146 | 100.00% | |||
Washington 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2000, 2004. Term Limit: None | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Democrat | |||||
Democrat | Governor Gary Locke First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2000. Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004 Open Chair - 21 July 2003: Governor Locke announced that he will not seek re-election in 2004. |
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Manual Recount from an official source. Machine Recount from an official source. On Thursday 30 December 2004 the Secretary of State certified the manual recount results showing that Democrat Christine Gregoire won Governor's election by 129 votes out of 2,810,058. Mr. Rossi is considering contesting these results. History: Friday 3 December 2004- the Democrats officially challenged the certified machine recount Republican Dino Rossi won by 42 votes out of 2,808,342. Monday 6 December- Secretary of State Sam Reed issues a hand recount order. 23 December- the state Supreme Court rules that King County recount is to include 573 mistakenly rejected ballots and 162 misplaced ballots in the manual recount. Manual Recount: (30 December 2004): Democrat Christine Gregoire: 1,373,361; Republican Dino Rossi: 1,373,232; Libertarian Ruth Bennett: 63,465. Machine Recount (24 November 2004): Republican Dino Rossi: 1,372,484; Democrat Christine Gregoire: 1,372,442; Libertarian Ruth Bennett: 63,415. Original Count: Republican Dino Rossi: 1,371,414; Democrat Christine Gregoire: 1,371,153; Libertarian Ruth Bennett: 63,346. | |||||
Total | 2,810,058 | 100.00% | |||
West Virginia 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2000, 2004. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Democrat | |||||
Democrat | Governor Robert E. Wise, Jr. First elected: 2000. Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2004 The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit. Open Chair - 12 August 2003: Governor Wise announced that he is not a candidate for re-election in 2004 (issue with marital infidelity). |
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Total | 744,433 | 100.00% |
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