Michigan 2005 Off Year Elections

The Green Papers: Michigan 2005 Off Year Elections

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Michigan
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress

Electoral Votes:	17	(3.16% of 538)
Governor:	1
Senators:	2	(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
2002-2010 Representatives:	15	(3.45% of 435)
2000 Census:	9,955,829	(3.53% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):	7,358,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):	6,861,342
Capital:	Lansing

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Michigan State and Local Government



U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 109^th Senate Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1	Democratic	Senator Debbie Stabenow • First elected: 2000 [also served in U.S. House- elected: 1996, 1998] • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Class 2	Democratic	Senator Carl Levin • First elected: 1978; re-elected: 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

	Democratic	Governor Jennifer M. Granholm • First elected: 2002 • Chair up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 • The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
	Republican	(pending) • Possible candidates: Nancy Cassis; Dick DeVos; Jack Hoogendyk

Lieutenant Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms. Nominated by convention separately from the gubernatorial primary; elected on same ticket with Governor.

	Democratic	Lieutenant Governor John D. Cherry, Jr. • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 • The current Lieutenant Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

109^th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109^th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 6 Democratic (6 Undetermined); 9 Republican (9 Undetermined)

CD 1	Democratic	Congressman Bart Stupak • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 2	Republican	Congressman Peter Hoekstra • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 3	Republican	Congressman Vernon J. Ehlers • First elected in Special Election, 7 December 1993, re: death of Congressman Paul Henry, 31 July 1993 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 4	Republican	Congressman Dave Camp • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 5	Democratic	Congressman Dale E. Kildee • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 6	Republican	Congressman Fred Upton • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 7	Republican	Congressman John H.J. "Joe" Schwarz • First elected: 2004 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 8	Republican	Congressman Mike Rogers • First elected: 2000 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 9	Republican	Congressman Joe Knollenberg • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 10	Republican	Congressman Candice S. Miller • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 11	Republican	Congressman Thaddeus G. McCotter • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 12	Democratic	Congressman Sander Levin • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 13	Democratic	Congressman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick • First elected: 1996 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 14	Democratic	Congressman John Conyers, Jr. • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 15	Democratic	Congressman John D. Dingell • First elected in 1955 in a special election to fill the seat of his deceased father, John Dingell. • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Secretary of State 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms

	Republican	Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 • The current Secretary of State is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Attorney General 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms

	Republican	Attorney General Mike Cox • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 • The current Attorney General is unaffected by the State's term limit.

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.

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