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Turnout | 69.78% Registered 3.82% 38.17% of Total Population 1.04% | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2010 Wyoming gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, to elect the governor of Wyoming. Party primaries were held on August 17.
While it was initially thought that term limits would prevent incumbent Democratic governor Dave Freudenthal from running for re-election, the constitutionality of the term limit law has been questioned, leaving the possibility that if Freudenthal had successfully challenged the law, he might have been able to run for a third term. [1] On March 4, 2010, Freudenthal announced he would not run for a third term. [2]
Republican Matt Mead flipped every county from Democratic to Republican as he won by getting around two-thirds of the votes polled.
Poll source | Dates administered | Leslie Petersen | Pete Gosar | Al Hamburg | Chris Zachary | Rex Wilde | Undecided |
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WTE/Aspen Media & Market Research [7] | July 26–29, 2010 | 34% | 9% | 5% | 1% | 4% | 39% |
Casper Star Tribune [8] | July 26–28, 2010 | 30% | 22% | 2% | 1% | <1% | 45% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Leslie Petersen | 10,785 | 47.2 | |
Democratic | Pete Gosar | 8,409 | 36.8 | |
Democratic | Chris Zachary | 1,139 | 5.0 | |
Democratic | Al Hamburg | 1,092 | 4.8 | |
Democratic | Rex Wilde | 1,042 | 4.6 | |
Democratic | write-ins | 384 | 1.7 | |
Total votes | 22,851 | 100 |
Poll source | Dates administered | Rita Meyer | Matt Mead | Colin Simpson | Ron Micheli | Alan Kousoulos | Undecided |
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WTE/Aspen Media & Market Research [7] | July 26–29, 2010 | 23% | 18% | 10% | 20% | 1% | 25% |
Casper Star-Tribune [10] | July 26–28, 2010 | 27% | 24% | 17% | 12% | 2% | 18% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Matt Mead | 30,308 | 28.7 | |
Republican | Rita Meyer | 29,605 | 28.0 | |
Republican | Ron Micheli | 27,630 | 26.1 | |
Republican | Colin Simpson | 16,722 | 15.8 | |
Republican | Alan Kousoulos | 566 | 0.5 | |
Republican | Tom Ubben | 432 | 0.4 | |
Republican | John Self | 295 | 0.3 | |
Republican | write-ins | 202 | 0.2 | |
Total votes | 105,760 | 100 |
Source | Ranking | As of |
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Cook Political Report [11] | Safe R (flip) | October 14, 2010 |
Rothenberg [12] | Safe R (flip) | October 28, 2010 |
RealClearPolitics [13] | Safe R (flip) | November 1, 2010 |
Sabato's Crystal Ball [14] | Safe R (flip) | October 28, 2010 |
CQ Politics [15] | Safe R (flip) | October 28, 2010 |
Poll source | Dates administered | Matt Mead (R) | Leslie Petersen (D) |
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Rasmussen Reports [16] | September 30, 2010 | 61% | 25% |
Rasmussen Reports [17] | August 18, 2010 | 58% | 24% |
Rasmussen Reports [18] | June 22, 2010 | 49% | 22% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Matt Mead | 123,780 | 65.68% | +35.67% | |
Democratic | Leslie Petersen | 43,240 | 22.94% | −47.05% | |
Independent | Taylor Haynes | 13,796 | 7.32% | ||
Libertarian | Mike Wheeler | 5,362 | 2.85% | ||
Write-in | 2,285 | 1.21% | |||
Majority | 80,540 | 42.74% | +2.75% | ||
Turnout | 190,822 | ||||
Republican gain from Democratic | Swing |
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