The Green Papers: 2011 Off-Year Election
 
Copyright www.flags.net/UNST.htm 2011 Governor's Chairs
by State

This is a list of the current Governors' chairs, the incumbents occupying them, and the candidacy status of said incumbents. Chairs up for election in the year 2011 are marked as such.

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Gubernatorial Links

           

Louisiana  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2007, 2011. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican

Chair up for election Republican Governor Piyush "Bobby" Jindal
• Re-elected Saturday 22 October 2011
First elected: 2007
Chair up for election: Saturday 22 October 2011
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
  Elected Republican 672,950 65.82% Governor Piyush "Bobby" Jindal
  Candidate Democratic 182,755 17.87% Tara Hollis
  Candidate Democratic 49,988 4.89% Cary J. Deaton
  Candidate Democratic 33,194 3.25% Ivo "Trey" Roberts
  Candidate No Party Affiliation 26,679 2.61% David Blanchard
  Candidate Democratic 21,846 2.14% "Niki Bird" Papazoglakis
  Candidate Libertarian 12,517 1.22% Scott A. Lewis, III
  Candidate No Party Affiliation 9,103 0.89% William Robert "Bob" Lang, Jr.
  Candidate No Party Affiliation 8,171 0.80% Ron Ceasar
  Candidate No Party Affiliation 5,236 0.51% Leonard Alan "Lenny" Bollingham
Total 1,022,439 100.00%  

Mississippi  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2007, 2011. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican

Chair up for election
Open
Republican Governor Haley Reeves Barbour
First elected: 2003; re-elected: 2007
Chair up for election: Tuesday 8 November 2011
The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election.
Open Chair
  Elected Republican 516,422 61.11% Lieutenant Governor Phil Bryant
  Candidate Democratic 328,651 38.89% Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny L. DuPree
Received 43% in the 2 August 2011 Primary. Proceeds to 23 August 2011 runoff.
Won the Tuesday 23 August 2011 Second Primary (Runoff) with 55% of the vote.
Total 845,073 100.00%  

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
  Republican
Major Third Parties
  Constitution
  Libertarian
Other Third Parties
  Marijuana
Independents
  Independent
  No Party Affiliation
 

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.


 


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