The Green Papers: 2008 General Election |
110th Congress Senate Seats by State |
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Alabama 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Write-in; (Boston Tea) | Darryl W. Perry Alabama Statesmen; Boston Tea Party; Christians for Life and Liberty |
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Total | 2,060,191 | 100.00% | |||
Alaska 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Write-in | 1,077 | 0.34% | Write-in | ||
Total | 317,723 | 100.00% | |||
Colorado 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican, 1 Democratic | |||||
  | ** Open Seat (no incumbent) ** | ||||
Write-in | 116 | 0.00% | Buddy Moore FEC S8CO00248: Financial report not available |
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Write-in | 10 | 0.00% | Gary Cooper FEC S2CO00134: Financial report not available |
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Write-in; (Green) | 9 | 0.00% | Bruce E. Lohmiller FEC S8CO00230: Financial report not available |
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Total | 2,331,621 | 100.00% | |||
Georgia 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Received 0.0% in the 4 November General election. Eliminated from 2 December runoff. FEC S2GA00142: Financial report not available |
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Received 0.0% in the 4 November General election. Eliminated from 2 December runoff. FEC S8GA00172: Financial report not available |
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Total | 2,137,956 | 100.00% | |||
Illinois 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Vacancy | |||||
Write-in | 1 | 0.00% | Patricia Elaine Beard | ||
Write-in; (Socialist Workers Party) | Betsy Farley | ||||
Total | 5,329,884 | 100.00% | |||
Iowa 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Republican | |||||
Write-in | 1,247 | 0.08% | SCATTERING | ||
Total | 1,534,762 | 100.00% | |||
Maine 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Write-in; (Unenrolled) | Roscoe I. Bartlett, | ||||
Write-in; (Independent) | Laurie Dobson 9 September 2008: Filed a U.S. District Court lawsuit (Dobson v Dunlap) regarding ballot access against the Maine Secretary of State. She lost the case on 17 September and is removed from the ballot. Ms. Dobson submitted her petitions to the town clerks on time however some clerks did not submit the petitions to the Secretary of State by the deadline. FEC S8ME00098: $14,262 |
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Write-in; (Independent) | Herbert J. Hoffman 30 June 2008: The Maine Democratic Party is challenging Mr. Hoffman's candidacy petitions in Superior Court. A Maine Superior Court ruled in favor of Mr. Hoffman on 14 June but the Maine Supreme Judicial Court unanimously removed him on 28 July 2008. On 14 August 2008, Mr. Hoffman requested injunctive relief from the U.S. Supreme Court however on 20 August 2008 Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter turned down a request that would have given an independent candidate in Maine for the U.S. Senate a place on the General Election ballot. On 29 August, injunctive relief was denied in Federal Court. He is now running as a write-in candidate. He filed an emergency motion with the U.S. District Court on 5 September 2008 requesting it to reconsider however the motion was denied on 9 September. FEC S8ME00114: $43,301 |
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Total | 724,430 | 100.00% | |||
Minnesota 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Republican | |||||
Write-in | 2,340 | 0.08% | Write-in | ||
Write-in | 13 | 0.00% | Michael Cavlan | ||
Write-in | 12 | 0.00% | Anthony Keith Price | ||
Write-in | 0 | 0.00% | John H. Evan | ||
Write-in; (Republican) | 0 | 0.00% | Jack Shepard FEC S2MN00159: $22,501 |
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Total | 2,887,688 | 100.00% | |||
North Carolina 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Write-in | 64 | 0.00% | Walker Fry Rucker | ||
Total | 4,271,970 | 100.00% | |||
Oregon 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican, 1 Democratic | |||||
Write-in | 5,388 | 0.30% | Write-in Votes | ||
Total | 1,767,504 | 100.00% | |||
Rhode Island 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Democratic | |||||
Write-in | 809 | 0.18% | The Jockey | ||
Write-in | 262 | 0.06% | Christopher Young FEC S0RI00042: Financial report not available |
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Write-in | 67 | 0.02% | Blank | ||
Write-in | 33 | 0.01% | Lincoln Chaffee | ||
Write-in | 13 | 0.00% | None of the Above | ||
Write-in | 10 | 0.00% | Robert Healey | ||
Write-in | 10 | 0.00% | Mickey Mouse | ||
Write-in | 9 | 0.00% | Buddy Cianci | ||
Write-in | 8 | 0.00% | Michael Brown | ||
Write-in | 7 | 0.00% | Donald Duck | ||
Write-in | 5 | 0.00% | Steve Laffey | ||
Total | 438,051 | 100.00% | |||
Tennessee 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Write-in | 0 | 0.00% | Casey Gouge | ||
Total | 2,424,585 | 100.00% | |||
Virginia 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Republican | |||||
  | ** Open Seat (no incumbent) ** | ||||
Write-in | 3,178 | 0.09% | Write-in | ||
Total | 3,643,294 | 100.00% | |||
West Virginia 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Democratic | |||||
Write-in | 83 | 0.01% | John R. "Rick" Bartlett | ||
Write-in | 36 | 0.01% | Chad Shaffer | ||
Total | 702,308 | 100.00% |
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 | |
Democratic-Farmer Labor | |
Republican | |
Major Third Parties | |
Green | |
Libertarian | |
Reform | |
Other Third Parties | |
Alaskan Independence | |
American Constitution | |
Boston Tea | |
Constitution | |
Independence | |
Independent Greens | |
Independent Party of Oregon | |
Natural Law | |
Nebraska | |
Socialist Workers Party | |
U.S. Taxpayers | |
Veterans Party of America | |
Independents | |
Independent | |
Independent Democrat | |
No Party Affiliation | |
Nominated By Petition | |
Other-party nominee | |
Unenrolled | |
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable | |
Scattering | |
Write-in |
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. Senate ClassClass 1 seats begin their current terms at noon on 3 January 2007... next regular election for these seats is in 2012. For more information on Senate Classes refer to UNITED STATES SENATE: Electoral "Classes". Article I, Section 3, clause 2 of the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: "Immediately after [the Senate of the United States] shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year..." Pursuant to this Constitutional provision, a three-Senator Committee was appointed by the Senate on 11 May 1789 to come up with a plan to carry out the requirements of that provision; this Committee reported to the Senate on 14 May 1789 a plan to divide the then 20 Senators (there were 10 of the 13 original States represented in the Senate at the time- each having 2 Senators: North Carolina and Rhode Island had yet to ratify the U.S. Constitution, while New York had so ratified but had failed to elect Senators as of that date) into the requisite three electoral Classes: under this plan, three groups of Senators (set up in such a way so as no State had its two Senators in the same group) were to be listed and the first Senator on each list (a list which was set up geographically north-to-south in the manner in which the Electoral Vote for President was counted before Congress at that time, so that two of the first Senators on these lists were from New Hampshire and the third was the first Senator in alphabetical order from Massachusetts) was to each blindly draw a piece of paper numbered either "1", "2" or "3" out of a box in the possession of the Secretary of the Senate. This plan being agreeable to the Senate and so approved, the drawing of lots in this manner was carried out the following day (15 May 1789)- such lot drawing ultimately determining that, to start with, Classes 1 and 2 were to have 7 Senators each and Class 3 was to have only 6 Senators. When New York finally seated its two Senators during the ensuing Summer, there was another lot drawing (actually a double-lot drawing) on 28 July 1789 to determine the Classes for these seats: since one of the seats had to be Class 3 to make it equal in number to that of the other two Classes so far, the two New York Senators each blindly drew between two pieces of paper, one marked "3", the other which was blank- after this, there was a second lot drawing in which the New York Senator who had drawn the blank paper blindly drew again between two pieces of paper marked "1" and "2": he drew "1" so that New York would henceforth have Senators of electoral Classes 1 and 3. When North Carolina seated its two Senators after ratifying the Constitution on 21 November 1789, there was yet another lot drawing (on 29 January 1790) in which North Carolina's two Senators each blindly drew between pieces of paper marked "2" and "3" (since there were now 12 States and, thus, 24 Senators: 24 being equally divisible by 3, there would now have to be 8 Senators in each of the three Classes to fulfill the Constitutional provision that, as nearly as was practicable, one third of the Senate be elected every second year). After Rhode Island- the last of the 13 original States- finally ratified the Constitution on 29 May 1790 and subsequently seated its two Senators that Summer, there was yet one more lot drawing in the First Congress (on 25 June 1790) in which Rhode Island's two Senators blindly drew between pieces of paper marked "1", "2" and "3": one Senator drew "2", the other drew "1"- thereby determining electoral Classes 1 and 2 as those for the Senators from this State. When Vermont was admitted to the Union as the 14th state on 4 March 1791, there was again a double lot drawing as there had been for New York. From that day until this, whenever a new State has been admitted to the Union, these types of lot drawings (the type determined by the necessity of keeping the number of Senators in each electoral Class as close to one third as possible at the time of said lot drawing) between the new State's first Senators is held before the Senate to determine in just which of the three electoral Classes that State's Senate seats will be placed from then on. |
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