The Green Papers
2008 U.S. Senate
Popular Vote and FEC Total Receipts
by Party

The popular vote tallies are UNOFFICIAL and have been acquired from various sources.

The FEC tallies are compiled from each candidates' reported "Total Receipts". The grand total includes candidates participating in the general election -- the total EXCLUDES funds collected by candidates eliminated during the primary/caucus nomination process.

Overview

The overview is grouped by Major Party (Democratic and affiliates, Republican), Major Third Party (Libertarian, Green), Other Third Party, Independent, and Others (write-in, scattering, none of the above, etc.). Votes cast for fusion candidates (candidates appearing under the banner of multiple parties) are tallied under the Major Party.

Affiliated Party or Classification	Candidates	Winners		Vote		FEC Total Receipts
Democratic	35	20	57.14%	34,276,327	51.66%	$208,376,623
Republican	34	15	42.86%	29,729,539	44.81%	$184,237,703
Other Third Party	11	0		727,658	1.10%	$265,799
Libertarian	14	0		670,231	1.01%	$79,476
Green	5	0		427,418	0.64%	$13,745
Others	54	0		256,065	0.39%	$80,064
Independent	15	0		242,851	0.37%	$465,062
Reform	1	0		16,443	0.02%
8 listings	169	35	100.00%	66,346,532	100.00%	$393,518,472

Party Details

Candidate's Balloted Party(ies)	Affiliated Party or Classification	Candidates	Winners	Vote		FEC Total Receipts
Democratic	Democratic	33	18	32,199,306	48.53%	$179,362,268
Republican	Republican	34	15	29,729,539	44.81%	$184,237,703
Democratic-Farmer Labor	Democratic	1	1	1,212,629	1.83%	$22,502,124
Democratic; Independent Party of Oregon	Democratic	1	1	864,392	1.30%	$6,512,231
Libertarian	Libertarian	14	0	670,231	1.01%	$79,476
Independence	Other Third Party	1	0	437,505	0.66%	$163,358
Green	Green	5	0	427,418	0.64%	$13,745
Scattering	Others	18	0	241,258	0.36%
Independent	Independent	12	0	218,957	0.33%	$465,062
Constitution	Other Third Party	3	0	125,531	0.19%	$20,340
American Constitution	Other Third Party	1	0	59,733	0.09%
U.S. Taxpayers	Other Third Party	1	0	30,827	0.05%
Independent Greens	Other Third Party	1	0	21,690	0.03%	$48,313
Natural Law	Other Third Party	1	0	18,550	0.03%
Reform	Reform	1	0	16,443	0.02%
Write-in	Others	36	0	14,807	0.02%	$80,064
No Party Affiliation	Independent	1	0	13,729	0.02%
Alaskan Independence	Other Third Party	1	0	13,197	0.02%	$33,788
Nebraska	Other Third Party	1	0	11,438	0.02%
Socialist Workers Party	Other Third Party	1	0	9,187	0.01%
Other-party nominee	Independent	1	0	8,780	0.01%
Nominated By Petition	Independent	1	0	1,385	0.00%
22 listings		169	35	66,346,532	100.00%	$393,518,472

Candidate Details

State	Class	Candidate (I) = incumbent * = winner	Party	Vote		FEC Total Receipts
AK	2	*Mark Begich	Democratic	151,767	47.77%	$4,576,970
AK	2	Theodore F. "Ted" Stevens (I)	Republican	147,814	46.52%	$3,858,991
AK	2	Robert Mario "Bob" Bird	Alaskan Independence	13,197	4.15%	$33,788
AK	2	Fredrick David "David" Haase	Libertarian	2,483	0.78%
AK	2	Ted Gianoutsos	Nominated By Petition	1,385	0.44%
AK	2	Write-in	Write-in	1,077	0.34%
AL	2	*Jefferson B. "Jeff" Sessions (I)	Republican	1,305,383	63.36%	$4,956,130
AL	2	Vivian Davis Figures	Democratic	752,391	36.52%	$332,750
AL	2	Write-Ins	Scattering	2,417	0.12%
AL	2	Darryl W. Perry	Write-in
AR	2	*Mark Lunsford Pryor (I)	Democratic	804,678	74.00%	$4,998,992
AR	2	Rebekah Jean Kennedy	Green	207,076	19.04%	$13,745
AR	2	Total Under Votes	Scattering	75,463	6.94%
AR	2	Total Over Votes	Scattering	123	0.01%
CO	2	*Mark E. Udall	Democratic	1,230,994	52.80%	$11,787,048
CO	2	Robert W. "Bob" Schaffer	Republican	990,755	42.49%	$7,387,843
CO	2	Douglas "Dayhorse" Campbell	American Constitution	59,733	2.56%
CO	2	Robert A. "Bob" Kinsey	Green	50,004	2.14%
CO	2	Buddy Moore	Write-in	116	0.00%
CO	2	Gary Cooper	Write-in	10	0.00%
CO	2	Bruce E. Lohmiller	Write-in	9	0.00%
DE	2	*Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (I)	Democratic	257,539	64.69%	$1,453,307
DE	2	Christine T. O'Donnell	Republican	140,595	35.31%	$116,471
GA	2	*Saxby Chambliss (I)	Republican	1,228,033	57.44%	$13,969,329
GA	2	James Francis "Jim" Martin	Democratic	909,923	42.56%	$7,490,201
GA	2	Allen Buckley	Libertarian			$26,628
GA	2	Eleanor García	Write-in
GA	2	William Salomone, Jr.	Write-in
IA	2	*Thomas Richard "Tom" Harkin (I)	Democratic	941,665	61.36%	$6,358,882
IA	2	Christopher Reed	Republican	560,006	36.49%	$59,087
IA	2	UNDER VOTES	Scattering	31,500	2.05%
IA	2	SCATTERING	Write-in	1,247	0.08%
IA	2	OVER VOTES	Scattering	344	0.02%
IA	2	Diana Newberry	Write-in
ID	2	*James E. "Jim" Risch	Republican	371,744	57.65%	$3,594,815
ID	2	Larry LaRocco	Democratic	219,903	34.11%	$1,424,818
ID	2	Rex Floyd Rammell	Independent	34,510	5.35%	$439,360
ID	2	Kent A. Marmon	Libertarian	9,958	1.54%
ID	2	Pro-Life, Formerly Known as Marvin Richardson	Independent	8,662	1.34%	$20,464
IL	2	*Richard J. "Dick" Durbin (I)	Democratic	3,615,844	67.84%	$8,116,764
IL	2	Steven Kenneth Sauerberg	Republican	1,520,621	28.53%	$2,027,158
IL	2	Kathleen J. "Kathy" Cummings	Green	119,135	2.24%
IL	2	Larry A. Stafford	Libertarian	50,224	0.94%
IL	2	Chad N. Koppie	Constitution	24,059	0.45%	$20,340
IL	2	Patricia Elaine Beard	Write-in	1	0.00%
IL	2	Betsy Farley	Write-in
KS	2	*Pat Roberts (I)	Republican	727,121	60.06%	$5,752,220
KS	2	James Charles "Jim" Slattery	Democratic	441,399	36.46%	$1,677,907
KS	2	Randall L. Hodgkinson	Libertarian	25,727	2.12%
KS	2	Joseph L. Martin	Reform	16,443	1.36%
KY	2	*Mitch McConnell (I)	Republican	953,816	52.97%	$18,681,961
KY	2	Bruce Lunsford	Democratic	847,005	47.03%	$10,883,172
LA	2	*Mary L. Landrieu (I)	Democratic	988,298	52.11%	$9,210,825
LA	2	John Neely Kennedy	Republican	867,177	45.72%	$4,828,982
LA	2	Richard Fontanesi	Libertarian	18,590	0.98%
LA	2	Jay Patel	No Party Affiliation	13,729	0.72%
LA	2	Robert Julius Stewart	Other-party nominee	8,780	0.46%
MA	2	*John F. Kerry (I)	Democratic	1,971,974	63.55%	$16,116,152
MA	2	Jeffrey K. "Jeff" Beatty	Republican	926,044	29.84%	$2,078,533
MA	2	Blanks	Scattering	108,748	3.50%
MA	2	Robert Joseph Underwood	Libertarian	93,713	3.02%
MA	2	All Others	Scattering	2,516	0.08%
ME	2	*Susan M. Collins (I)	Republican	444,300	61.33%	$7,593,350
ME	2	Thomas H. "Tom" Allen	Democratic	279,510	38.58%	$5,998,773
ME	2	OTHERS	Scattering	620	0.09%
ME	2	Roscoe I. Bartlett,	Write-in
ME	2	Laurie Dobson	Write-in			$14,262
ME	2	Herbert J. Hoffman	Write-in			$43,301
MI	2	*Carl Levin (I)	Democratic	3,038,386	62.66%	$8,276,479
MI	2	Jack Hoogendyk, Jr.	Republican	1,641,070	33.85%	$302,747
MI	2	Scott Avery "Scotty" Boman	Libertarian	76,347	1.57%
MI	2	Harley G. Mikkelson	Green	43,440	0.90%
MI	2	Michael N. Nikitin	U.S. Taxpayers	30,827	0.64%
MI	2	Doug Dern	Natural Law	18,550	0.38%
MN	2	*Al Franken	Democratic-Farmer Labor	1,212,629	41.99%	$22,502,124
MN	2	Norm Coleman (I)	Republican	1,212,317	41.98%	$19,298,843
MN	2	Dean Malcolm Barkley	Independence	437,505	15.15%	$163,358
MN	2	Charles Aldrich	Libertarian	13,923	0.48%
MN	2	James Niemackl	Constitution	8,907	0.31%
MN	2	Write-in	Write-in	2,340	0.08%
MN	2	Other	Scattering	42	0.00%
MN	2	Michael Cavlan	Write-in	13	0.00%
MN	2	Anthony Keith Price	Write-in	12	0.00%
MN	2	John H. Evan	Write-in	0	0.00%
MN	2	Jack Shepard	Write-in	0	0.00%	$22,501
MS	1	*Roger F. Wicker (I)	Republican	683,409	54.96%	$6,227,613
MS	1	David Ronald "Ronnie" Musgrove	Democratic	560,064	45.04%	$2,686,206
MS	2	*Thad Cochran (I)	Republican	766,111	61.44%	$2,216,977
MS	2	Erik Robert Fleming	Democratic	480,915	38.56%
MT	2	*Max Baucus (I)	Democratic	348,289	72.92%	$8,433,751
MT	2	Bob Kelleher	Republican	129,369	27.08%
NC	2	*Kay R. Hagan	Democratic	2,249,311	52.65%	$8,977,412
NC	2	Elizabeth H. Dole (I)	Republican	1,887,510	44.18%	$17,268,326
NC	2	Christopher Cole	Libertarian	133,430	3.12%
NC	2	WRITE-IN Misc.	Scattering	1,655	0.04%
NC	2	Walker Fry Rucker	Write-in	64	0.00%
NE	2	*Michael O. "Mike" Johanns	Republican	455,854	57.52%	$3,907,749
NE	2	Scott Michael Kleeb	Democratic	317,456	40.06%	$1,852,094
NE	2	Kelly Renee Rosberg	Nebraska	11,438	1.44%
NE	2	Steven R. "Steve" Larrick	Green	7,763	0.98%
NH	2	*Jeanne Shaheen	Democratic	358,438	51.59%	$8,272,915
NH	2	John E. Sununu (I)	Republican	314,403	45.25%	$7,376,457
NH	2	Kenneth E. "Ken" Blevens	Libertarian	21,516	3.10%
NH	2	Write-ins	Scattering	430	0.06%
NJ	2	*Frank R. Lautenberg (I)	Democratic	1,951,218	56.03%	$7,219,668
NJ	2	Richard "Dick" Zimmer	Republican	1,461,025	41.95%	$1,542,809
NJ	2	Jason Scheurer	Libertarian	18,810	0.54%
NJ	2	J. M. Carter, Jr.	Independent	15,935	0.46%
NJ	2	Daryl Mikell Brooks	Independent	15,925	0.46%
NJ	2	Jeffrey Harlan Boss	Independent	10,345	0.30%
NJ	2	Sara J. Lobman	Socialist Workers Party	9,187	0.26%
NM	2	*Tom Udall	Democratic	505,128	61.33%	$7,447,684
NM	2	Stevan E. "Steve" Pearce	Republican	318,522	38.67%	$4,632,311
OK	2	*James M. "Jim" Inhofe (I)	Republican	763,375	56.68%	$5,447,312
OK	2	Andrew Monroe Rice	Democratic	527,736	39.18%	$2,869,433
OK	2	Stephen Paul Wallace	Independent	55,708	4.14%
OR	2	*Jeffrey Alan "Jeff" Merkley	Democratic; Independent Party of Oregon	864,392	48.90%	$6,512,231
OR	2	Gordon Harold Smith (I)	Republican	805,159	45.55%	$9,254,837
OR	2	David "Dave" Brownlow	Constitution	92,565	5.24%
OR	2	Write-in Votes	Write-in	5,388	0.30%
RI	2	*John F. "Jack" Reed (I)	Democratic	320,644	73.20%	$3,962,443
RI	2	Robert G. "Bob" Tingle	Republican	116,174	26.52%
RI	2	The Jockey	Write-in	809	0.18%
RI	2	Christopher Young	Write-in	262	0.06%
RI	2	Blank	Write-in	67	0.02%
RI	2	Lincoln Chaffee	Write-in	33	0.01%
RI	2	None of the Above	Write-in	13	0.00%
RI	2	Robert Healey	Write-in	10	0.00%
RI	2	Mickey Mouse	Write-in	10	0.00%
RI	2	Buddy Cianci	Write-in	9	0.00%
RI	2	Michael Brown	Write-in	8	0.00%
RI	2	Donald Duck	Write-in	7	0.00%
RI	2	Steve Laffey	Write-in	5	0.00%
SC	2	*Lindsey Olin Graham (I)	Republican	1,076,534	57.52%	$4,634,992
SC	2	Robert M. "Bob" Conley	Democratic	790,621	42.25%	$17,105
SC	2	Write-In	Scattering	4,276	0.23%
SD	2	*Tim Johnson (I)	Democratic	237,889	62.49%	$4,928,182
SD	2	Joel Dean Dykstra	Republican	142,784	37.51%	$906,630
TN	2	*Lamar Alexander (I)	Republican	1,579,477	65.14%	$5,791,640
TN	2	Robert Dudley "Bob" Tuke	Democratic	767,236	31.64%	$730,299
TN	2	Edward L. Buck	Independent	31,631	1.30%
TN	2	Christopher G. Fenner	Independent	11,073	0.46%
TN	2	Daniel Towers Lewis	Independent	9,367	0.39%
TN	2	Christopher Joseph "Chris' Lugo	Independent	9,170	0.38%	$5,238
TN	2	Ed Lawhorn	Independent	8,986	0.37%
TN	2	David "None Of The Above" Gatchell	Independent	7,645	0.32%
TN	2	Casey Gouge	Write-in	0	0.00%
TX	2	*John Cornyn (I)	Republican	4,337,469	54.82%	$13,727,473
TX	2	Richard Joel "Rick" Noriega	Democratic	3,389,365	42.84%	$4,166,286
TX	2	Yvonne Adams Schick	Libertarian	185,241	2.34%	$8,130
VA	2	*Mark Robert Warner	Democratic	2,369,327	65.03%	$13,663,049
VA	2	James S. "Jim" Gilmore, III	Republican	1,228,830	33.73%	$2,437,715
VA	2	Glenda Gail Parker	Independent Greens	21,690	0.60%	$48,313
VA	2	William "Bill" Redpath	Libertarian	20,269	0.56%	$44,718
VA	2	Write-in	Write-in	3,178	0.09%
WV	2	*John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller, IV (I)	Democratic	447,560	63.73%	$5,189,461
WV	2	Matthew Jay "Jay" Wolfe	Republican	254,629	36.26%	$123,862
WV	2	John R. "Rick" Bartlett	Write-in	83	0.01%
WV	2	Chad Shaffer	Write-in	36	0.01%
WY	1	*John A. Barrasso	Republican	183,063	71.50%	$2,585,977
WY	1	Nicholas H. "Nick" Carter	Democratic	66,202	25.86%	$210,914
WY	1	Under Votes	Scattering	6,414	2.51%
WY	1	Write-Ins	Scattering	293	0.11%
WY	1	Over Votes	Scattering	61	0.02%
WY	2	*Michael B. "Mike" Enzi (I)	Republican	189,046	73.84%	$1,648,563
WY	2	Christopher J. "Chris" Rothfuss	Democratic	60,631	23.68%	$32,326
WY	2	Under Votes	Scattering	6,026	2.35%
WY	2	Write-Ins	Scattering	269	0.11%
WY	2	Over Votes	Scattering	61	0.02%
33 states	35 offices	169 candidates		66,346,532		$393,518,472

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