Iowa gubernatorial election, 2010

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Iowa gubernatorial election, 2010
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Nominee Terry Branstad Chet Culver
Party Republican Democratic
Running mate Kim Reynolds Patty Judge
Popular vote592,494484,798
Percentage52.9%43.2%
Iowa Gubernatorial Election Results by County, 2010.svg
County results
Governor before election

Chet Culver
Democratic

Elected Governor

Terry Branstad
Republican

The Iowa gubernatorial election of 2010 was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 to elect the governor and lieutenant governor, to serve a four-year term beginning on January 14, 2011. In Iowa, the governor and lieutenant governor are elected on the same ballot.

Governor of Iowa Chief executive of the U.S. state of Iowa

The Governor of Iowa is the chief executive of the U.S. state of Iowa. The governor is the head of the executive branch of the state government and is charged with enforcing state laws. The officeholder has the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Iowa General Assembly, to convene the legislature, as well as to grant pardons, except in cases of treason and impeachment. The Governor of Iowa is also the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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The two major party candidates were first-term incumbent governor Chet Culver, a Democrat, who ran for re-election with first-term incumbent lieutenant governor Patty Judge, and former four-term governor Terry Branstad, who won a three-way primary for the Republican nomination and ran with State Senator Kim Reynolds.

Chet Culver American football player and politician

Chester John "Chet" Culver is an American politician who served as the 41st Governor of Iowa from 2007 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 29th Secretary of State of Iowa from 1999 to 2007. He was also elected as the Federal Liaison for the Democratic Governors Association for 2008–2009. He founded the Chet Culver Group, an energy sector consulting firm, after he left public office in 2011.

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.

Patty Judge 46th Lieutenant Governor and former Secretary of Agriculture for the U.S. State of Iowa.

Patty Jean Poole Judge is an American politician who served as the 45th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from 2007 to 2011 and previously the 13th Secretary of Agriculture of Iowa from 1999 to 2007. She unsuccessfully ran for reelection as Lieutenant Governor in 2010 after being elected to the office in 2006 with Chet Culver as Governor.

The Branstad/Reynolds ticket defeated the Culver/Judge ticket in the general election.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Results

Democratic primary results [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Chet Culver (Incumbent)56,29395.7
Democratic Write-ins2,5344.3
Total votes58,827100

Republican primary

Candidates

On ballot

As listed by the Iowa Secretary of State's office: [2]

Rod Roberts American politician

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Iowa House of Representatives lower chamber of the Iowa state legislature

The Iowa House of Representatives is the lower house of the Iowa General Assembly, the upper house being the Iowa Senate. There are 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing 100 single-member districts across the state, formed by dividing the 50 Senate districts in half. Each district has a population of approximately 30,464 as of the 2010 United States Census. The House of Representatives meets at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.

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Withdrew

Paul McKinley American politician

Paul McKinley is the Iowa State Senator from the 36th District. He has served in the Iowa Senate since 2001 and served as Senate minority leader from 2009 until November 2011.

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa City in Iowa, United States

Cedar Rapids is the second-largest city in Iowa and is the county seat of Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, 20 miles (32 km) north of Iowa City and 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Des Moines, the state's capital and largest city. It is a part of the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Corridor of Linn, Benton, Cedar, Jones, Johnson, and Washington counties.

Polling

Poll sourceDates administeredTerry BranstadBob Vander PlaatsRod Roberts
Selzer & Co. Inc of Des Moines June 1–3, 201057%29%8%
Public Policy Polling May 25–27, 201046%31%13%

Results

Results by county: Branstad--70-80% Branstad--60-70% Branstad--50-60% Branstad--40-50% Vander Plaats--40-50% Vander Plaats--50-60% Vander Plaats--60-70% Vander Plaats--70-80% Roberts--70-80% Iowa gubernatorial Republican primary, 2010.svg
Results by county:
  Branstad—70–80%
  Branstad—60–70%
  Branstad—50–60%
  Branstad—40–50%
  Vander Plaats—40–50%
  Vander Plaats—50–60%
  Vander Plaats—60–70%
  Vander Plaats—70–80%
  Roberts—70–80%
Republican primary results [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Terry Branstad114,45050.3
Republican Bob Vander Plaats93,05840.9
Republican Rod Roberts19,8968.8
Total votes227,404100

General election

Candidates

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Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small part of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines, which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857. It is on and named after the Des Moines River, which likely was adapted from the early French name, Rivière des Moines, meaning "River of the Monks". The city's population was 217,521 as of the 2017 population estimate. The five-county metropolitan area is ranked 89th in terms of population in the United States with 634,725 residents according to the 2016 estimate by the United States Census Bureau, and is the second largest metropolitan area in the state after that of Omaha, Nebraska, which includes three counties in southwest Iowa.

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
Cook Political Report Lean R [13] October 21, 2010
Rothenberg Safe R [14] October 15, 2010
Swing State ProjectSafe R[ citation needed ]
RealClearPolitics Likely R [15] October 21, 2010
Sabato's Crystal Ball Safe R [16] October 21, 2010
CQ Politics Lean R [17] October 21, 2010

Polling

Poll sourceDates administeredChet CulverTerry Branstad
Rasmussen Reports September 23, 201037%55%
Rasmussen Reports August 5, 201036%52%
Rasmussen Reports June 14, 201031%57%
Public Policy Polling May 25–27, 201037%52%
KCCI-TV May 3–5, 201041%48%
Rasmussen Reports April 29, 201038%53%
Rasmussen Reports March 17, 201036%52%
Rasmussen Reports February 18, 201037%53%
KCCI-TV February 15–17, 201038%54%
Selzer & Co. of Des Moines January 31-Feb. 3, 201033%53%
Selzer & Co. of Des Moines November 8–11, 200933%57%
Daily Kos/Research 2000 October 12–14, 200943%48%
Rasmussen Reports September 22, 200934%54%
Iowa First Foundation July 23-July 26, 200934%53%
Concordia Group LLC July 200937%53%

Results

2010 gubernatorial election, Iowa
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Republican Terry Branstad 592,49452.8%+8.2
Democratic Chet Culver (Incumbent)484,79843.2%-10.8
Iowa PartyJonathan Narcisse20,8591.9%n/a
Libertarian Eric Cooper14,3981.3%+0.7
IndependentJames Hughes3,8840.4%n/a
Socialist Workers David Rosenfeld2,7570.3%+.05
Write-inn/a2,8230.3%n/a
Majority108,238
Turnout 1,122,013
Republican gain from Democratic Swing

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