United States Senate election in Texas, 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 the term of Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, who was retiring to become President Clinton's Secretary of the Treasury. 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.

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[edit] Candidates

[edit] Republican Party

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

[edit] Democratic Party

[edit] Libertarian Party

  • Scott 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] General Election

Source Date Hutchison (R) Radnofsky (D) Jameson (L)
Polimetrix November 5, 2006 65% 29%
Zogby Interactive October 27, 2006 55% 36% 6%
Zogby October 25, 2006 61% 27%
Rasmussen October 23, 2006 60% 34%
Zogby Interactive October 16, 2006 60% 28% 5%
Zogby Interactive September 25, 2006 54% 30%
Zogby Interactive September 5, 2006 45% 37% 7%
Rasmussen August 31, 2006 58% 32%
Zogby Interactive August 21, 2006 55% 37%
Rasmussen August 3, 2006 61% 31%
Zogby Interactive July 19, 2006 52% 37%
Rasmussen July 13, 2006 58% 31%
Zogby Interactive June 19, 2006 57% 33%
Rasmussen May 18, 2006 53% 34%
Zogby Interactive March 30, 2006 60% 31%
Rasmussen January 8, 2006 64% 25%

[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

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Preceded by
2002
John Cornyn
Texas U.S. Senate elections
2006
Succeeded by
2008