The Green Papers: Alaska 2007 Off Year Election |
Alaska
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress |
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U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 110th Senate Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Class 2 | Republican | Senator Theodore F. "Ted" Stevens Appointed by Governor Walter J. Hickel (Republican) on 24 December 1968, to fill vacancy caused by the death of Senator E. L. Bartlett (Democrat): 11 December 1968; elected to finish out the term in a Special Election: 1970; elected to first full term: 1972; re-elected: 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996; 2002 Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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On 30 July 2007, FBI and IRS agents searched the home of Senator Stevens as part of an investigation into the Senator's relationship with contractor Bill Allen. Mr. Allen has pleaded guilty to bribing Alaska state legislators. | |||||
Class 3 | Republican | Senator Lisa Murkowski Appointed by Governor Frank H. Murkowski (Republican) on 20 December 2002, to fill vacancy left by the resignation of her father, the same Frank H. Murkowski, when he resigned to become Governor of the State on 2 December 2002. First elected: 2004. Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors | |||||
Republican | Governor Sarah H. Palin First elected: 2006 Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit. |
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Lieutenant Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Elected on a ticket with (but nominated separately from) the Governor | |||||
Republican | Lieutenant Governor Sean R. Parnell First elected: 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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110th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 110th House | |||||
Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 1 Republican (1 Undetermined) | |||||
At-Large {map} |
Republican | Congressman Don E. Young First elected: 6 March 1973- in a Special Election re: the presumed death of Congressman Nick Begich in a plane crash, 16 October 1972 (Congressman Begich was re-elected to the House of the 93rd Congress, 7 November 1972, before he was declared legally dead and his seat thereby declared vacant) Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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. |