The Green Papers: Oregon 2007 Off Year Election
This page is for offices up for election in 2007. Find 2008 elections here.
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Electoral Votes:7(1.30% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 2 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:5(1.15% of 435)
2000 Census:3,428,543 (1.22% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):2,530,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):1,943,699
Capital:Salem
 

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Oregon State and Local Government

           

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

Class 2 Republican Senator Gordon Harold Smith
First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Class 3 Democratic Senator Ron Wyden
First elected to finish out the term in a Special Election: 30 January 1996 [held to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Robert Packwood (Republican): 1 October 1995 (Oregon state law does not permit the state's Governor to make temporary appointments to fill vacancies in the United States Senate)]; elected to a full term: 1998; re-elected: 2004.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 3-term period, All Governors

  Democratic Governor Theodore R. "Ted" Kulongoski
First elected: 2002; re-elected: 2006
Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election.
Open Chair - At term limit

110th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 110th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
4 Democratic (4 Undetermined);
1 Republican (1 Undetermined)

CD 1
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Democratic Congressman David Wu
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 2
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Republican Congressman Gregory Paul "Greg" Walden
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 3
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Democratic Congressman Earl Blumenauer
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 4
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Democratic Congressman Peter A. "Pete" DeFazio
First elected: 1986
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CD 5
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Democratic Congressman Darlene Hooley
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

  Democratic Secretary of State Bill Bradbury
Appointed: 1999; first elected: 2000; 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Open Seat - At term limit

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

  Democratic Attorney General Hardy Myers
First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2000, 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Open Seat - At term limit

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

  Democratic Treasurer Randall Edwards
First elected: 2000; re-elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Open Seat - At term limit

Commissioner of Labor and Industries  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2014, 2018. The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries shall be elected for a term of four years [ORS 651.030]

  Nonpartisan Labor and Industries Commissioner Dan Gardner
First elected: 2002; re-elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 18 May 2010
  
If a candidate receives a majority of the vote for this non-partisan office in the May primary, that candidate is elected. Otherwise, the top two vote getters go to a runoff in November. [OR Revised Statutes 249.088]

Superintendent of Public Instruction  4 year term, Final Election Cycle: 2002. A 2011 law eliminated this as an elected office effective at the end of the current Superintendent's term or resignation. This office is now an appointed position.

  Nonpartisan Public Instruction Superintendent Susan Castillo
First elected: 2002; re-elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 18 May 2010
  
If a candidate receives a majority of the vote for this non-partisan office in the May primary, that candidate is elected. Otherwise, the top two vote getters go to a runoff in November. [OR Revised Statutes 249.088]

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): 9 incumbents
  Republican: 2 incumbents
Independents
  Nonpartisan: 2 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.

 


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  Gubernatorial Popular Vote by Party  
  U.S. House Popular Vote and FEC Total Receipts by Party  
  Close Contests Summary - Decision by 2% or less  
  Contests Where No Candidate Received a Majority  
 
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  Gubernatorial Primaries at a Glance  
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  Governor's Chairs, Senate, and U.S. House Seats with no incumbent running for them  
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  Governor's Chairs, Senate, and U.S. House Seats with only one major party candidate running for office  
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  2007 Partisan Composition by State  
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  Political Parties  
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  Senate Electoral Classes  
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  Statewide Political Party Strength