Arizona gubernatorial election, 2006

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Arizona gubernatorial election, 2006
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Nominee Janet Napolitano Len Munsil
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote959,830543,528
Percentage62.6%35.4%
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Results by county

Napolitano

  50-59%
  60-69%
  70-79%
Governor before election

Janet Napolitano
Democratic

Elected Governor

Janet Napolitano
Democratic

The 2006 Arizona gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano, was reelected without major opposition. The Governor's widespread popularity contributed to her easily won campaign for reelection; her general approval rating in October 2006, one month before the election, was at 58%. [1] As of 2018, this is the most recent election in which a Democrat was elected Governor of Arizona.

Democratic Party (United States) political party in the United States

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party. The Democrats' dominant worldview was once social conservatism and economic liberalism while populism was its leading characteristic in the rural South. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate in the Progressive Party, beginning a switch of political platforms between the Democratic and Republican Party over the coming decades, and leading to Woodrow Wilson being elected as the first fiscally progressive Democrat. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social liberal platform, supporting social justice.

Janet Napolitano American politician

Janet Ann Napolitano is an American politician, lawyer, and university administrator who served as the 21st governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009 and United States secretary of homeland security from 2009 to 2013, under President Barack Obama. She has been president of the University of California system since September 2013, shortly after she resigned as Secretary of Homeland Security.

Contents

Democratic primary

Candidates

Results

Democratic Primary results [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Janet Napolitano (Incumbent)230,881100.00
Total votes230,881100.00

Republican primary

Candidates

Donald H. Goldwater, known as Don Goldwater is an Arizona Republican Party political activist, and the nephew of the late U.S. Senator and U.S. presidential candidate Barry M. Goldwater.

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Barry Goldwater Republican nominee for President, 1964; U.S. Senator from Arizona

Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician, businessman and author who was a five-term Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in 1964. Despite his loss of the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, Goldwater is the politician most often credited with sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.

Results

Republican primary results [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Len Munsil155,77850.56
Republican Don Goldwater122,28339.69
Republican Mike Harris18,7346.08
Republican Gary Tupper11,2503.65
Republican Write-ins490.02
Total votes308,094100.00

Libertarian primary

Candidates

Results

Libertarian primary results [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Libertarian Barry Hess3,063100.00
Total votes3,063100.00

General election

Opinion polls

SourceDate ReleasedNapolitano (D)Munsil (R)
Survey USA November 3, 200657%38%
Rasmussen October 19, 200658%37%
Survey USA October 17, 200656%37%
Rasmussen September 26, 200656%38%
Survey USA September 19, 200656%40%
Zogby/WSJ September 11, 200651.3%41.1%
Rasmussen August 31, 200652%33%
Zogby/WSJ August 28, 200651.7%38.0%
Rasmussen August 2, 200653%35%
Zogby/WSJ July 24, 200649.6%38.7%
Zogby/WSJ June 21, 200648.7%32.8%
Rasmussen June 12, 200658%29%
Rasmussen April 30, 200655%28%

Election results

Arizona gubernatorial election, 2006 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Democratic Janet Napolitano (Incumbent) 959,830 62.58% +16.40%
Republican Len Munsil 543,52835.44%-9.78%
Libertarian Barry Hess 30,2681.97%+0.31%
Write-ins190.00%
Majority416,30227.14%+26.18%
Turnout 1,533,645
Democratic hold Swing

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2006/50StateGovernor061019State.htm
  2. 1 2 3 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-12-06. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
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