Florida 2007 Off Year Election

The Green Papers: Florida 2007 Off Year Election

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Florida
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress

Electoral Votes:	27	(5.02% of 538)
Governor:	1
Senators:	2	(Electoral Classes 1 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:	25	(5.75% of 435)
2000 Census:	16,028,890	(5.68% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):	11,774,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):	8,752,717
Capital:	Tallahassee

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Florida State and Local Government



U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 110^th Senate Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1		Democratic	Senator Bill Nelson • First elected: 2000; re-elected 2006 [also served in U.S. House- elected: 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988] • Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

Class 3		Republican	Senator Mel Martinez • First elected: 2004 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

		Republican	Governor Charlie Crist • First elected: 2006 • Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 • The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Elected on ticket with Governor

		Republican	Lieutenant Governor Jeffrey D. "Jeff" Kottkamp • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

110^th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 110^th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 16 Republican (16 Undetermined); 9 Democratic (9 Undetermined)

CD 1 {map}		Republican	Congressman Jefferson B. "Jeff" Miller • First elected 16 October 2001 - in a Special Election re: the resignation of Congressman Joe Scarborough 6 September 2001. • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 2 {map}		Democratic	Congressman F. Allen Boyd, Jr. • First elected: 1996 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 3 {map}		Democratic	Congressman Corrine Brown • First elected: 1992 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 4 {map}		Republican	Congressman Ander M. Crenshaw • First elected: 2000 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 5 {map}		Republican	Congressman Virginia "Ginny" Brown-Waite • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 6 {map}		Republican	Congressman Clifford Bundy "Cliff" Stearns • First elected: 1988 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 7 {map}		Republican	Congressman John L. Mica • First elected: 1992 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 8 {map}		Republican	Congressman Richard Anthony "Ric" Keller • First elected: 2000 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 9 {map}		Republican	Congressman Gus Michael Bilirakis • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 10 {map}		Republican	Congressman C.W. "Bill" Young • First elected: 1970 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 11 {map}		Democratic	Congressman Katherine Anne "Kathy" Castor • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 12 {map}		Republican	Congressman Adam H. Putnam • First elected: 2000 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 13 {map}		Republican	Congressman Vernon "Vern" Buchanan • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
	Contested U.S. House 110^th Congress Election. On 20 November 2006 election officials certified Republican Vernon "Vern" Buchanan (119,309 votes, 50.08%) as the winner by 369 votes. Democratic Christine L. Jennings received (118,940 votes, 49.92%). Democratic Christine L. Jennings filed a lawsuit in Leon County requesting a new election arguing that a malfunction in the voting machines caused a 12.9% undervote (18,412 blank ballots). An audit of the machines began the week of 27 November using a 12 hour scripted "mock election". The first tests, performed 28 November on voting machines not brought into service on election day, showed a CD 13 discrepancy of 5 votes (in favor of Jennings). However, video tapes revealed that the differences were due to participants making mistakes while choosing their selections. The second tests, performed 1 December on voting machines that had an undervote on election day, showed no discrepancies in the CD 13 contest. The final audit report found no evidence of machine malfunction. On 20 December 2006 Circuit Judge William Gary ruled that Jennings arguments about the possibility of lost votes did not warrant disclosing the trade secrets of the voting machine company Election Systems & Software. Jennings stated she will appeal. On 20 December 2006 Jennings filed a Notice of Contest with the U.S. House. Vernon "Vern" Buchanan was seated in Congress on 4 January 2007. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the legal proceedings would be handled later. Christine Jennings decided to withdraw the lawsuit in Florida courts on 28 November 2007.

CD 14 {map}		Republican	Congressman Connie Mack • First elected: 2004 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 15 {map}		Republican	Congressman David Joseph "Dave" Weldon, Jr. • First elected: 1994 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 16 {map}		Democratic	Congressman Timothy Edward "Tim" Mahoney • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 17 {map}		Democratic	Congressman Kendrick B. Meek • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 18 {map}		Republican	Congressman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen • First elected in a Special Election, 29 August 1989, re: death of Congressman Claude Pepper, 30 May 1989 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 19 {map}		Democratic	Congressman Robert Wexler • First elected: 1996 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 20 {map}		Democratic	Congressman Debbie Wasserman Schultz • First elected: 2004 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 21 {map}		Republican	Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart • First elected: 1992 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 22 {map}		Democratic	Congressman Ron Klein • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 23 {map}		Democratic	Congressman Alcee L. Hastings • First elected: 1992 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 24 {map}		Republican	Congressman Tom Feeney • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 25 {map}		Republican	Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Attorney General 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

		Republican	Attorney General Bill McCollum • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Chief Financial Officer 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. The new office of Chief Financial Officer will replace both the Comptroller and Treasurer in Florida.

		Democratic	Chief Financial Officer Adelaide Alexander "Alex" Sink • First elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

		Republican	Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Charles H. "Charlie" Bronson • First elected: 2002; re-elected: 2006 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

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): 11 incumbents
	• Republican: 21 incumbents
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.