| The Green Papers: Oregon 2005 Off Year Elections |
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Oregon
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress |
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| U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 109th Senate Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
| Class 2 | Republican | Senator Gordon H. Smith First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2002 Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| Class 3 | Democratic | Senator Ron Wyden First elected to finish out the term in a Special Election: 30 January 1996 [held to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Robert Packwood (Republican): 1 October 1995 (Oregon state law does not permit the state's Governor to make temporary appointments to fill vacancies in the United States Senate)]; elected to a full term: 1998; re-elected: 2004. Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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| Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 3-term period, All Governors | |||||
| Democratic | Governor Ted Kulongoski First elected: 2002 Chair up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit. |
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| 109th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109th House | |||||
| Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 4 Democratic (4 Undetermined); 1 Republican (1 Undetermined) | |||||
| CD 1 | Democratic | Congressman David Wu Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 |
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| CD 2 | Republican | Congressman Gregory Paul Walden Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 |
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| CD 3 | Democratic | Congressman Earl Blumenauer Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 |
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| CD 4 | Democratic | Congressman Peter A. DeFazio First elected: 1986 Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 |
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| CD 5 | Democratic | Congressman Darlene Hooley Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 |
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| Secretary of State 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008 | |||||
| Democratic | Secretary of State Bill Bradbury Appointed: 1999; first elected: 2000; 2004 Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| Attorney General 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008 | |||||
| Democratic | Attorney General Hardy Myers First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2000, 2004 Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| Treasurer 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008 | |||||
| Democratic | Treasurer Randall Edwards First elected: 2000; re-elected: 2004 Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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| Commissioner of Labor and Industries 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006 | |||||
| Nonpartisan | Labor and Industries Commissioner Dan Gardner First elected: 2002 Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 |
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| Superintendent of Public Instruction 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006 | |||||
| Nonpartisan | Public Instruction Superintendent Susan Castillo First elected: 2002 Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 |
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| 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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| Libertarian | |
| Nonpartisan | |
| Not readily classifiable | |
| Pacific Green | |
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| Socialist Party USA | |
| Working Families |
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