Idaho gubernatorial election, 1990

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Idaho gubernatorial election, 1990
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  1986 November 6, 1990 1994  

  Cecil D Andrus.png No image.svg
Nominee Cecil Andrus Roger Fairchild
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote218,673101,937
Percentage68.2%31.8%

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County Results
Andrus:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%
Fairchild:     50–60%

Governor before election

Cecil Andrus
Democratic

Elected Governor

Cecil Andrus
Democratic

The 1990 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1990, to elect the Governor of the state of Idaho. Cecil D. Andrus, the Democratic incumbent, ran for an unprecedented fourth term. State Senator Roger Fairchild won the Republican nomination, but was easily defeated by the popular incumbent. As of 2018, this is the most recent election in which a Democrat was elected Governor of Idaho.

Idaho State of the United States of America

Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States. It borders the state of Montana to the east and northeast, Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington and Oregon to the west. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canadian border with the province of British Columbia. With a population of approximately 1.7 million and an area of 83,569 square miles (216,440 km2), Idaho is the 14th largest, the 12th least populous and the 7th least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. The state's capital and largest city is Boise.

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.

Roger Fairchild is a Republican politician from Fruitland, Idaho active in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Idaho in 1990. Fairchild was decisively defeated by the Democratic incumbent, Cecil D. Andrus.

Contents

Democratic primary

Candidates

Results

Andrus ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.

Republican primary

Candidates

Results

Republican primary results [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Roger Fairchild37,72837.09
Republican Rachel S. Gilbert33,48332.92
Republican Milt Erhart30,51430.00
Total votes101,725100.00

General election

Campaign

Although Fairchild attempted to capitalize on his business experience and Andrus' veto of a bill passed by the Idaho Legislature severely restricting abortion earlier in the year, the incumbent's personal popularity in Idaho proved to be too much to overcome.

Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or spontaneous abortion. When deliberate steps are taken to end a pregnancy, it is called an induced abortion, or less frequently "induced miscarriage". The unmodified word abortion generally refers to an induced abortion. A similar procedure after the fetus has potential to survive outside the womb is known as a "late termination of pregnancy" or less accurately as a "late term abortion".

Results

Idaho gubernatorial election, 1990 [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Democratic Cecil D. Andrus (inc.) 218,673 68.21% +18.28%
Republican Roger Fairchild 101,93731.79%-17.19%
Majority116,73636.41%+35.47%
Turnout 320,610
Democratic hold Swing

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Preceded by
1986
Idaho gubernatorial elections Succeeded by
1994