District of Columbia 2008 General Election

The Green Papers: District of Columbia 2008 General Election

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District of Columbia
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Primary: Tuesday 9 September 2008
General Election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Electoral Votes:	3	(0.56% of 538)
Governor:	0
Senators:	0
2002-2010 Representatives:	0	(0.00% of 435)
2000 Census:	574,096	(0.20% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):	411,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):	354,410
Capital:	Washington, DC
Tuesday 9 September 2008 polling hours 7:00a EDT (1100 UTC) to 8:00p EDT (0000 UTC).
Tuesday 4 November 2008 polling hours 7:00a EST (1200 UTC) to 8:00p EST (0100 UTC).

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District of Columbia State and Local Government

District of Columbia 2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions:
Democrats, Republicans, Third Parties

04 December 2008: General Election 2008 - Certified Results

07 October 2008: Synchronized with DC Board of Elections and Ethics - Election Year 2008.

Tuesday 9 September 2008 Primary

Returns from an official source.



President 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 3 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place, Duly Appointed Presidential Electors, List of Presidential Candidates.


		Democratic	245,800	92.11%	Senator Barack Hussein Obama (3 Electoral Votes) • Vice President: Senator Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. • FEC P80003338: $778,642,047

		Republican	17,367	6.51%	Senator John Sidney McCain, III • Vice President: Governor Sarah H. Palin • FEC P80002801: $399,826,076

		Scattering	1,138	0.43%	Write In, if any

		Independent	958	0.36%	Ralph Nader • Vice President: Matt Gonzalez • FEC P20000527: $4,520,160

		Scattering	705	0.26%	Under Votes

		D.C. Statehood Green	590	0.22%	former Congressman Cynthia A. McKinney • Vice President: Rosa A. Clemente • FEC P80004930: $240,360

		Scattering	310	0.12%	Over Votes

		Write-in; (Libertarian)			former Congressman Bob Barr • Vice President: Wayne Allyn Root • FEC P80005580: $1,405,899
Total			266,868	100.00%

Mayor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Home Rule

		Democratic	Mayor Adrian M. Fenty • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Delegate to the House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2008. Home Rule

{map}		Democratic	Territorial Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton • Re-elected Tuesday 4 November 2008 • First elected: 1990; re-elected: 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 • Renominated - 9 September 2008 Primary
		Polls: Democratic Territorial Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton

		Democratic	228,376	92.28%	Territorial Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton • FEC H0DC00058: $446,781

		D.C. Statehood Green	16,693	6.75%	Maude Louise Hills • a.k.a. Louise Thundercloud • FEC H8DC00176: Financial report not available

		Scattering	2,402	0.97%	Write In, if any
Total			247,471	100.00%
	Non-voting Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. A candidate must receive a majority of the popular vote in order to be elected as Delegate to the House. A runoff election is scheduled in the event that no candidate receives the requisite majority.

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): 2 incumbents, 2 candidates
	• Republican: 1 candidate
Major Third Parties
	• D.C. Statehood Green (affiliate of Green): 2 candidates
	• Libertarian: 1 candidate
Independents
	• Independent: 1 candidate
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
	• Scattering: 4 candidates
	• Write-in: 1 candidate
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 an election authority that the person so listed will actually appear on the ballot.

FEC indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary "Total Receipts" for candidates for Federal Office.