Texas United States Senate election, 2006

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The United States Senate election for Texas, 2006 was held on November 7, 2006. The winner will serve between January 3, 2007 and January 3, 2013.

Incumbent Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican from Dallas, was running for re-election for the seat she had held since a 1993 special election, when she had been elected to complete retiring Senator Lloyd Bentsen's last term. She had since been elected to two full terms, winning in 1994 by a 3-2 margin and in 2000 by a 2-1 margin. Hutchison co-sponsored legislation supporting the creation of a constitutional amendment that would limit terms for senators, but had been quoted saying that she would only leave after two terms if such a law applied to all senators. After deciding not to challenge Governor Rick Perry this year, as had been widely speculated, Hutchison was running for a third term.

She had no opposition in the 2006 Republican primary, and had approval ratings in the 60 percent range going into the General Election [1], although they have been slipping rapidly.

The Democratic nominee was Houston attorney Barbara Ann Radnofsky, who had never run for public office and was expected to face an uphill battle in the general election, especially in a state that has not elected a Democrat statewide since 1994 and against a historically popular Hutchison. Since neither Radnofsky nor her main opponent, Gene Kelly, had received a majority of votes in the Democratic primary, a runoff was held on April 11, 2006, which Radnofsky won. Radnofsky's campaign platform is available on her website. [2]

Scott Lanier Jameson won the Libertarian Party nomination at the party's state convention on June 10, 2006, defeating Timothy Wade and Ray Salinas. Arthur W. Loux, a Roman Forest City Councilman and a member of the Minutemen, was running as an independent.

Contents 1 Candidates 1.1 Republican Party 1.2 Democratic Party 1.3 Libertarian Party 2 Former Candidates 2.1 Democratic Party 2.2 Green Party 2.3 Independent 3 Polling 3.1 Hutchison vs. Radnofsky 3.2 Hutchison vs. Radnofsky vs. Jameson 4 Election results 5 External links

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Republican Party

• Kay Bailey Hutchison, Incumbent - former anchorwoman, business woman, state representative, and state treasurer

[edit] Democratic Party

• Barbara Ann Radnofsky - attorney, mediator, volunteer, teacher

[edit] Libertarian Party

• Scott Lanier Jameson

[edit] Former Candidates

[edit] Democratic Party

• Darrel Reece Hunter
• Gene Kelly - attorney, perennial candidate, and Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2000

The candidates listed below did not meet the deadline to file as either independent candidates on the ballot or official write-in candidates and therefore, no votes will be counted for them.

[edit] Green Party

• Herschel "Rusty" Tomlinson

[edit] Independent

• Arthur W. Loux - Minuteman and Roman Forest City Councilman

[edit] Polling

[edit] Hutchison vs. Radnofsky

Source	Date	Radnofsky (D)	Hutchison (R)
Rasmussen	October 27, 2006	34%	60%
Zogby/WSJ	September 28, 2006	30%	53.5%
Rasmussen	September 13, 2006	32%	58%
Zogby/WSJ	September 11, 2006	39%	47.8%
WSJ/Zogby	August 28, 2006	37.3%	54.6%
Rasmussen	August 9, 2006	31%	61%
Rasmussen	July 24, 2006	31%	58%
WSJ/Zogby	July 24, 2006	36.7%	52.2%
WSJ/Zogby	June 21, 2006	33.2%	56.7%
Rasmussen	June 20, 2006	34%	53%
WSJ/Zogby	March 30, 2006	30.9%	60%
Rasmussen	January 8, 2006	25%	64%

[edit] Hutchison vs. Radnofsky vs. Jameson

Source	Date	Radnofsky (D)	Hutchison (R)	Jameson (L)
Zogby/WSJ	October 31, 2006	35.9%	54.8%	6.4%
Zogby/WSJ	October 19, 2006	27.9%	59.9%	5.2%
Zogby/WSJ	September 11, 2006	36.8%	45.2%	7.1%

[edit] Election results

100% of precincts reporting:

2006 United States Senate election, Texas
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Kay Bailey Hutchison (inc.)	2,661,789	61.7	-3.3
	Democratic	Barbara Ann Radnofsky	1,555,202	36.0	+3.6
	Libertarian	Scott Jameson	97,672	2.3	+1.1
Majority			1,106,587	25.7
Turnout			4,314,663
	Republican hold		Swing

[edit] External links

• Senator Hutchison's Official Page
• Barbara Radnofsky Campaign
• The Green Papers link on the Texas Midterm Election
• Scott Jameson's Campaign

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Preceded by 2002 John Cornyn

Texas U.S. Senate elections 2006

Succeeded by 2008