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Governor campaigns</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Secretary_of_State"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Secretary of State</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Background"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Background</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Results"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Results</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Attorney_General"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Attorney General</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Background_2"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Background</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Results_2"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Results</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Judicial_elections"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Judicial elections</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#State_legislatures"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">State legislatures</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Ballot_measures"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Ballot measures</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#Footnotes"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">Footnotes</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <p><br /> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Gubernatorial_elections">Gubernatorial elections</span></h2> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/Gubernatorial_elections,_2010" title="Gubernatorial elections, 2010">Gubernatorial elections, 2010</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p><b>37 gubernatorial elections</b> were scheduled for <a href="/November_2,_2010_election_results" title="November 2, 2010 election results">November 2, 2010</a>. Of the 37 seats up for election, <a href="/Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrat">Democrats</a> defended 19 versus 18 held by a <a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> going into the election. In the wake of the polls, the balance of power stands at 29 Republican seats, 19 Democratic seats, one Independent seat, and one undecided election. </p><p><br /> Ballotpedia has prepared a <a href="/2010_gubernatorial_electoral_results" title="2010 gubernatorial electoral results">list of the winners</a> along with key statistics about winning margins and voter turnout. </p><p>36 governorships were already up for election due to election cycles. When <a href="/Utah" title="Utah"> Utah's</a> incumbent governor left to accept an ambassadorial position, his state called a special election, bringing the total number of contests to 37, the most states that have ever elected a governor at once in U.S. history. </p><p>Combined with the fact that the partisan balance of power in the nation's legislatures and gubernatorial offices had tremendous influence on the redrawing of Congressional districts in 2011, the power at stake in 2010 brought unprecedented attention to the gubernatorial elections. </p><p>2010 also became America's most expensive gubernatorial cycle ever, with previous records for entire campaigns being smashed before primaries were even over and <a href="/California" title="California">California's</a> <a href="/Meg_Whitman" title="Meg Whitman">Meg Whitman</a> setting new records for individual expenditures in a campaign. </p><p>Key race-trackers expected Republicans to pick up several seats, with final calls pegging the GOP to pick up anywhere from five to 12 seats.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> In the end, Republicans won 11 seats and Democrats flipped six. Additionally, <a href="/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> elected an Independent. </p><p>In 15 of the seats up for election, the incumbent could not run again because of <a href="/States_with_gubernatorial_term_limits" title="States with gubernatorial term limits">term limits</a>, leaving 22 seats guaranteed to be open to non-incumbents. Of the incumbent but <a href="/Limited-out" class="mw-redirect" title="Limited-out">limited-out</a> governors, eight were Democratic and seven were Republican. When incumbents did choose to run, the primaries were good to them. Only in <a href="/Nevada_gubernatorial_election,_2010" title="Nevada gubernatorial election, 2010">Nevada</a> did an incumbent seeing re-election lose his own party's primary. (One of the term-limited governors, <a href="/Dave_Freudenthal" title="Dave Freudenthal">Dave Freudenthal</a> in <a href="/Wyoming" title="Wyoming">Wyoming</a>, at one point indicated he planned to challenge his state's term limits law; while he did win his legal battle to have the state's term limits invalidated, he eventually declined to run for a third term.) </p> <ul><li>Democratic governors who were limited-out included:</li></ul> <p><a href="/John_Baldacci" class="mw-redirect" title="John Baldacci">John Baldacci</a> (Maine)<br /> <a href="/Jennifer_Granholm" title="Jennifer Granholm">Jennifer Granholm</a> (Michigan)<br /> <a href="/Bill_Richardson" title="Bill Richardson">Bill Richardson</a> (New Mexico)<br /> <a href="/Brad_Henry" title="Brad Henry">Brad Henry</a> (Oklahoma)<br /> <a href="/Ted_Kulongoski" title="Ted Kulongoski">Ted Kulongoski</a> (Oregon)<br /> <a href="/Ed_Rendell" title="Ed Rendell">Ed Rendell</a> (Pennsylvania)<br /> <a href="/Phil_Bredesen" title="Phil Bredesen">Phil Bredesen</a> (Tennessee)<br /> <a href="/Dave_Freudenthal" title="Dave Freudenthal">Dave Freudenthal</a> (Wyoming)<br /> </p><p>In those races, Democrats held onto <a href="/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a> with the Republicans picked up the other seven. </p> <ul><li>Republican governors who were limited-out included:</li></ul> <p><a href="/Bob_Riley" title="Bob Riley">Bob Riley</a> (Alabama)<br /> <a href="/Arnold_Schwarzenegger" title="Arnold Schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> (California)<br /> <a href="/Sonny_Perdue" title="Sonny Perdue">Sonny Perdue</a> (Georgia)<br /> <a href="/Linda_Lingle" title="Linda Lingle">Linda Lingle</a> (Hawaii)<br /> <a href="/Donald_Carcieri" title="Donald Carcieri">Donald Carcieri</a> (Rhode Island)<br /> <a href="/Mark_Sanford_(South_Carolina)" title="Mark Sanford (South Carolina)">Mark Sanford</a> (South Carolina)<br /> <a href="/Mike_Rounds" title="Mike Rounds">Mike Rounds</a> (South Dakota)<br /> </p><p><br /> Republicans lost <a href="/California" title="California">California</a> and <a href="/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a> to the Democrats and <a href="/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> elected an Independent, holding onto the remaining four. </p><p>Some incumbent governors who weren't <a href="/Limited-out" class="mw-redirect" title="Limited-out">limited-out</a> still chose not to try for re-election. </p> <ul><li>Democratic governors who voluntarily chose not to run for re-election were <a href="/Bill_Ritter_(Colorado)" title="Bill Ritter (Colorado)">Bill Ritter</a> (Colorado), <a href="/Mark_Parkinson" title="Mark Parkinson">Mark Parkinson</a> (Kansas), and <a href="/Jim_Doyle" class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Doyle">Jim Doyle</a> (Wisconsin). <a href="/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a> remained Democratic while Republicans took the other two.</li></ul> <ul><li>Republican governors who could have run again, but did not, were <a href="/Jodi_Rell" class="mw-redirect" title="Jodi Rell">Jodi Rell</a> (Connecticut), <a href="/Charlie_Crist" title="Charlie Crist">Charlie Crist</a> (Florida), <a href="/Tim_Pawlenty" title="Tim Pawlenty">Tim Pawlenty</a> (Minnesota) and <a href="/Jim_Douglas" title="Jim Douglas">Jim Douglas</a> (Vermont). Democrats made three pick-ups here, in <a href="/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, <a href="/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a>, and <a href="/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a> while <a href="/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a> remained in GOP hands.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Lt._Governor_campaigns">Lt. Governor campaigns</span></h2> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/Lieutenant_Governor_elections,_2010" title="Lieutenant Governor elections, 2010">Lieutenant Governor elections, 2010</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>Lieutenant Gubernatorial campaigns, which are often tied to the candidate for governor in the general election, hewed to the same party line as the top line races with the exception of <a href="/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>, where Republican <a href="/Mark_Darr" title="Mark Darr">Mark Darr</a> won along with Democrat <a href="/Mike_Beebe" title="Mike Beebe">Mike Beebe</a>, and <a href="/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>, where Democrat <a href="/Elizabeth_H._Roberts" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth H. Roberts">Elizabeth H. Roberts</a> will serve along side Independent <a href="/Lincoln_Chafee" title="Lincoln Chafee">Lincoln Chafee</a>, making for a split ticket in those states. </p><p>Incumbents were re-elected in <a href="/Georgia" title="Georgia">Georgia</a>, <a href="/Idaho" title="Idaho">Idaho</a>, <a href="/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, <a href="/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, <a href="/Nebraska" title="Nebraska">Nebraska</a>, <a href="/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a>, <a href="/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, and <a href="/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a>, a set that includes six Republican and two Democratic seats, with Maryland and Massachusetts in the minority. </p><p>Sitting lieutenant governors won the governorship in three cases: <a href="/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>, <a href="/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota">South Dakota</a>, and <a href="/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a>. In another 5 states, the lieutenant governor ran for governor but lost. </p><p>Going into the elections, Republicans controlled 25 lieutenant governorships compared to 18 for Democrats. Additionally, two seats, in <a href="/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> and <a href="/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a>, were vacant. Another five states do not have the office of the lieutenant governor. In those five states, Democrats held the office first to succeed the governor in three cases. </p><p>Republicans triumphed in 21 lieutenant gubernatorial elections with only nine going to the Democrats. <a href="/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a> is still in recount, so the final numbers will change. While the GOP flipped a total of nine seats, Democrats only took Republican-held offices in <a href="/California" title="California">California</a>, <a href="/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, and <a href="/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>. </p><p>Assuming that Minnesota's race ultimately goes to the Democrats, as recount results to date indicate, the balance of power for the two parties in lieutenant governorships of first-succession offices in states that lack the office will be 35-15 in favor of Republicans. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Secretary_of_State">Secretary of State</span></h2> <table class="infobox" style="text-align: center;"> <tbody><tr> <th style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 0.5em; style="><big>2010 SOS Elections</big> </th></tr> <tr> <td><div class="center"><div class="floatnone"><a href="/File:SOS_badge.jpg" class="image"><img alt="SOS badge.jpg" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/4/4c/SOS_badge.jpg/150px-SOS_badge.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="149" srcset="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/4/4c/SOS_badge.jpg/225px-SOS_badge.jpg 1.5x, https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/4/4c/SOS_badge.jpg/300px-SOS_badge.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1041" data-file-height="1036" /></a></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 0.5em; style="><big><a href="/Secretary_of_State_elections,_2010" title="Secretary of State elections, 2010">2010 SOS Election Guide</a></big> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/Candidates_for_Secretary_of_State,_2010" title="Candidates for Secretary of State, 2010">Candidates for SOS</a> <br /> <a href="/Polls,_2010_Secretary_of_State_elections" title="Polls, 2010 Secretary of State elections">SOS 2010 polls</a> <br />SOS Racetracking <br /> <a href="/State_Executive_Officials" class="mw-redirect" title="State Executive Officials">SOS news headlines</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color: #FFA700"><big><a class="mw-selflink selflink">All 2010 Elections</a> </big> </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color: #FFA700"><big><a href="/November_2,_2010_election_results" title="November 2, 2010 election results">General Election results</a> </big> </th></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/Secretary_of_State_elections,_2010" title="Secretary of State elections, 2010">Secretary of State elections, 2010</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p><b>Twenty-six secretary of state elections</b> were scheduled for Tuesday, <a href="/November_2,_2010_election_results" title="November 2, 2010 election results">November 2nd, 2010</a>. Of the 26 seats up for election, <b>14</b> had been held by <a href="/Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrat">Democrats</a> and <b>12</b> by <a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republicans</a>. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Background">Background</span></h3> <p>In four of the seats that were up for election, the incumbent could not run again because of <a href="/Term_limits" class="mw-redirect" title="Term limits">term limits</a>. Of the incumbent but <a href="/Limited-out" class="mw-redirect" title="Limited-out">limited-out</a> secretaries of state, <b>1</b> was <a href="/Democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic">Democratic</a> and <b>3</b> were <a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a>. </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/Democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic">Democratic</a> Secretary of State who was limited-out was <a href="/Charlie_Daniels" title="Charlie Daniels">Charlie Daniels</a> (<a href="/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>)</li> <li>The <a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> Secretaries of State <a href="/Todd_Rokita" title="Todd Rokita">Todd Rokita</a> (<a href="/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>), <a href="/Terri_Lynn_Land" title="Terri Lynn Land">Terri Lynn Land</a> (<a href="/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a>), and <a href="/Chris_Nelson" title="Chris Nelson">Chris Nelson</a> (<a href="/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota">South Dakota</a>) were term limited-out</li></ul> <p>Several incumbent secretaries of state chose not to run for re-election, in most cases because they ran for a different office. In mid-November 2009, it was estimated that <b>5</b> incumbent secretaries of state who could run again (three Democrats and two Republicans) voluntarily choose not to seek re-election. Three months later, however, only the three Democrats remained on the list as both of the Republicans (<a href="/Karen_Handel" title="Karen Handel">Karen Handel</a> of <a href="/Georgia" title="Georgia">Georgia</a> and <a href="/Ron_Thornburgh" title="Ron Thornburgh">Ron Thornburgh</a> of <a href="/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>) resigned from office resulting in the governor from each of the respective states having to appoint a replacement; both appointees in these instances were already candidates seeking the statewide office in November. </p> <ul><li><a href="/Democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic">Democratic</a> Secretaries of State who voluntarily choose not to run for re-election were <a href="/Susan_Bysiewicz" title="Susan Bysiewicz">Susan Bysiewicz</a> (<a href="/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>), <a href="/Jennifer_Brunner" class="mw-redirect" title="Jennifer Brunner">Jennifer Brunner</a> (<a href="/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>) and <a href="/Deborah_L._Markowitz" class="mw-redirect" title="Deborah L. Markowitz">Deborah L. Markowitz</a> (<a href="/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a>). Bysiewicz, who over the course of two years switched campaigns from the gubernatorial race to the state attorney general contest, had decided to seek neither higher office nor re-election to her current position, Markowtiz is seeking to become <a href="/Gubernatorial_elections,_2010" title="Gubernatorial elections, 2010">governor</a> and Brunner was in the hunt for her party's nomination for <a href="/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a>, though she ultimately lost to the <a href="/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Ohio" title="Lieutenant Governor of Ohio">Lieutenant Governor</a> <a href="/Lee_Fisher" title="Lee Fisher">Lee Fisher</a>.</li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Results">Results</span></h3> <p>After all the votes had been tabulated, there was a rather dramatic shift in the balance of partisan control over the secretary of state offices. Of the <b>26</b> statewide position that were on the ballot, <b>17</b> had been won by <a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republicans</a> while only <b>9</b> were garnered by the <a href="/Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrat">Democrats</a>. Even more significant, however, was the fact that <b>6</b> of those offices won by <a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republicans</a> had previously been held by <a href="/Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrat">Democrats</a>; these statewide positions included <a href="/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>, <a href="/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a>, <a href="/Iowa" title="Iowa">Iowa</a>, <a href="/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>, <a href="/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a>, and <a href="/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>. Overall, the once slightly comfortable majority <a href="/Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrat">Democrats</a> had held among Secretary of State offices evaporated overnight. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Attorney_General">Attorney General</span></h2> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/Attorney_General_elections,_2010" title="Attorney General elections, 2010">Attorney General elections, 2010</a>; <a href="/Candidates_for_State_Attorney_General,_2010" title="Candidates for State Attorney General, 2010">Candidates for State Attorney General, 2010</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <table class="infobox" style="text-align: center;"> <tbody><tr> <th style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 0.5em; style="><big>2010 AG Elections</big> </th></tr> <tr> <td><div class="center"><div class="floatnone"><a href="/File:AttyGenLogo.jpg" class="image"><img alt="AttyGenLogo.jpg" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/9/91/AttyGenLogo.jpg/150px-AttyGenLogo.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/9/91/AttyGenLogo.jpg/225px-AttyGenLogo.jpg 1.5x, https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/9/91/AttyGenLogo.jpg/300px-AttyGenLogo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1021" data-file-height="1021" /></a></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align: center; padding-bottom: 0.5em; style="><big><a href="/Attorney_General_elections,_2010" title="Attorney General elections, 2010">2010 AG Election Guide</a></big> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/Candidates_for_State_Attorney_General,_2010" title="Candidates for State Attorney General, 2010">Candidates for AG</a> <br /> <a href="/Polls,_2010_State_Attorney_General_elections" title="Polls, 2010 State Attorney General elections">AG 2010 polls</a> <br />AG Racetracking <br /> <a href="/State_Executive_Officials" class="mw-redirect" title="State Executive Officials">AG news headlines</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color: #FFA700"><big><a class="mw-selflink selflink">All 2010 Elections</a> </big> </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color: #FFA700"><big><a href="/November_2,_2010_election_results" title="November 2, 2010 election results">General Election Results</a> </big> </th></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Thirty attorney general elections</b> were scheduled for <a href="/November_2,_2010_election_results" title="November 2, 2010 election results">November 2, 2010</a>. Of the 30 seats that were up for election, <b>20</b> had been held by a <a href="/Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrat">Democrat</a> and <b>10</b> by a <a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a>. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Background_2">Background</span></h3> <p>In three of the seats that were up for election, the incumbent could not run again because of <a href="/Term_limits" class="mw-redirect" title="Term limits">term limits</a>. Of the three incumbent but <a href="/Limited-out" class="mw-redirect" title="Limited-out">limited-out</a> attorneys general, two were Democrats and one was <a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a>: </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/Democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic">Democratic</a> Attorneys General of <a href="/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a> (<a href="/Terry_Goddard" title="Terry Goddard">Terry Goddard</a>) and <a href="/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> (<a href="/Patrick_Lynch" title="Patrick Lynch">Patrick Lynch</a>) were term-limited out.</li> <li>The <a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> Attorney General of <a href="/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a> who was limited-out was <a href="/Mike_Cox" title="Mike Cox">Mike Cox</a>.</li></ul> <p>Several incumbent attorneys general chose not to run for re-election, in most cases because they ran for a different office. As of mid-April 2010, it is known that seven incumbent attorneys general who could run again (five are <a href="/Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrat">Democrats</a> and two are <a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republicans</a>) are voluntarily choosing not to seek re-election. </p> <ul><li><a href="/Democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic">Democratic</a> attorneys general who are voluntarily choosing not to run for re-election are <a href="/Jerry_Brown_(California)" title="Jerry Brown (California)">Jerry Brown</a> (<a href="/California" title="California">California</a>), <a href="/Richard_Blumenthal" title="Richard Blumenthal">Richard Blumenthal</a> (<a href="/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>), <a href="/Thurbert_E._Baker" title="Thurbert E. Baker">Thurbert E. Baker</a> (<a href="/Georgia" title="Georgia">Georgia</a>), and <a href="/Drew_Edmondson" title="Drew Edmondson">Drew Edmondson</a> (<a href="/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>). Of these five, Goddard, Brown, Baker, and Edmondson have sought each of their respective state's governorships; both Baker and Edmondson failed to receive their party's nomination in the primary while Brown and Goddard have successfully moved on to the general election in November. Blumenthal, on the other hand, was in the hunt for the <a href="/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> seat held by outgoing <a href="/Democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic">Democratic</a> Senator Chris Dodd; he ultimately succeeded in November.</li> <li><a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> attorneys general who could run again, but have said they will not, are <a href="/Bill_McCollum" title="Bill McCollum">Bill McCollum</a> (<a href="/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>) and <a href="/Henry_McMaster" title="Henry McMaster">Henry McMaster</a> (<a href="/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>), both of whom had sought each of their respective state's governorships. McMaster ultimately lost the party nomination to State Representative <a href="/Nikki_Haley" title="Nikki Haley">Nikki Haley</a>.</li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Results_2">Results</span></h3> <p>After all the votes had been tabulated, there was a significant shift in the balance of partisan control over the state attorney general offices. Of the <b>30</b> statewide positions on the ballot, <b>14</b> had been won by <a href="/Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrat">Democrats</a> while <a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republicans</a> seized control in <b>16</b> of those races. More significant, however, was the fact that <b>5</b> of these offices won by <a href="/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republicans</a> had previously been held by <a href="/Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrat">Democrats</a>; these statewide positions included <a href="/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>, <a href="/Georgia" title="Georgia">Georgia</a>, <a href="/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>, <a href="/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, and <a href="/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>. Altogether, while <a href="/Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrat">Democrats</a> were able to maintain a slim majority control of the state attorney general offices, thanks largely to wins in both <a href="/California" title="California">California</a> and <a href="/Iowa" title="Iowa">Iowa</a>, the balance of power among the two major political parties, however, is now close to about split straight down the middle. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Judicial_elections">Judicial elections</span></h2> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See: <a href="/Judicial_elections,_2010" title="Judicial elections, 2010">Judicial elections, 2010</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="State_legislatures">State legislatures</span></h2> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/State_legislative_elections,_2010" title="State legislative elections, 2010">State legislative elections, 2010</a></i> and <i><a href="/Projected_outcomes_of_state_legislative_elections,_2010" title="Projected outcomes of state legislative elections, 2010">Projected outcomes of state legislative elections, 2010</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p><b>88 state legislative chamber elections</b> were scheduled for <a href="/November_2,_2010_election_results" title="November 2, 2010 election results">November 2, 2010</a>. Of the 88 chambers up for election, 52 were held by Democrats and 33 by Republicans. There were also 2 chambers that were equally split and one (<a href="/Nebraska_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Nebraska Senate">Nebraska</a>) which was officially nonpartisan. </p><p>1,167 (59.2%) of the country's 1,971 state senate seats were up for re-election in November, and 4,958 (90.7%) of the country's 5,462 state house seats were up for re-election. Altogether, 6,125 of the country's 7,384 (82.9%) state legislative seats were up for re-election in this election year. </p><p>The 11 chambers <b>without</b> elections in 2010 (except for an occasional <a href="/State_legislative_special_elections_in_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="State legislative special elections in 2010">special election</a>), were the <a href="/Upper_house" title="Upper house">upper houses</a> and <a href="/Lower_house" title="Lower house">lower houses</a> in <a href="/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, <a href="/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a>, <a href="/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> and <a href="/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, and the <a href="/Upper_house" title="Upper house">upper house</a> (state senate) in <a href="/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>, <a href="/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a> and <a href="/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>. </p><p>In the 43 state senate elections, 14 states were impacted by <a href="/State_legislatures_with_term_limits" title="State legislatures with term limits">term limits</a>. There were 122 <a href="/Impact_of_term_limits_on_state_senate_elections_in_2010" title="Impact of term limits on state senate elections in 2010">state senators who were ineligible</a> to run in November because of term limits. Of the 122 ineligible incumbents, 55 were Democrats and 66 were Republicans (and 1 nonpartisan senator). </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Ballot_measures">Ballot measures</span></h2> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/2010_ballot_measures" title="2010 ballot measures">2010 ballot measures</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <table class="infobox" style="text-align: center;"> <tbody><tr> <td><b><a href="/2010_ballot_measures" title="2010 ballot measures">2010 ballot measures</a></b><hr /> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/Ballotpedia%27s_Tuesday_Count_for_2010" title="Ballotpedia's Tuesday Count for 2010">Tuesday Count</a> • <a href="/Ballot_Measure_Scorecard,_2010" title="Ballot Measure Scorecard, 2010">2010 Scorecard</a><hr /> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/Ballotpedia:Analysis_of_the_2010_ballot_measures" title="Ballotpedia:Analysis of the 2010 ballot measures">Analysis</a> • <a href="/Chart_of_2010_ballot_measure_issues" title="Chart of 2010 ballot measure issues">Issues on ballot</a> </td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>184 ballot questions</b> were <a href="/Ballotpedia%27s_Tuesday_Count_for_2010" title="Ballotpedia's Tuesday Count for 2010">certified</a> for spots on <b>38 statewide ballots</b> in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> </p><p>Specifically, for the <a href="/BC2010#November" class="mw-redirect" title="BC2010">November 2, 2010</a> general election ballot <b>160 ballot questions</b> were certified in 37 states.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> The 184 measures on the 2010 ballot amounted to about 80% of the average of 220 ballot questions that have been on statewide ballots in the even-numbered years from 1990-2008. </p><p><a href="/Ballotpedia:Analysis_of_the_2010_ballot_measures#Issues_on_the_ballot" title="Ballotpedia:Analysis of the 2010 ballot measures">5 political topics</a> dominated the 2010 ballot, and 3 of the 5 most popular topics each related to fiscal policy. The "Big 5" topics on the 2010 ballot were <a href="/Category:Certified,_taxes,_2010" title="Category:Certified, taxes, 2010">taxes</a>, <a href="/Category:Certified,_administration_of_government,_2010" title="Category:Certified, administration of government, 2010">administration of government</a>, <a href="/Category:Certified,_elections_and_campaigns,_2010" title="Category:Certified, elections and campaigns, 2010">elections and campaigns</a>, <a href="/Category:Certified,_bond_issues,_2010" title="Category:Certified, bond issues, 2010">bond issues</a> and <a href="/Category:Certified,_state_and_local_government_budgets,_spending_and_finance,_2010" title="Category:Certified, state and local government budgets, spending and finance, 2010">state budgets</a>. The number of 2010 ballot measures relating to fiscal topics were an increase of about 13% over the number of similar measures on the <a href="/2008_ballot_measures" title="2008 ballot measures">2008 ballot</a>. </p><p>The 2010 ballot included fewer social issues (such as <a href="/Abortion_on_the_ballot" title="Abortion on the ballot">abortion</a>, <a href="/Marriage_and_family_on_the_ballot" title="Marriage and family on the ballot">marriage</a>, <a href="/Immigration_on_the_ballot" title="Immigration on the ballot">immigration</a>, <a href="/Gambling_on_the_ballot" title="Gambling on the ballot">gambling</a>) than had been the case in most recent years, although one of the most widely-remarked measures on the ballot, <a href="/California_Proposition_19,_Marijuana_Legalization_Initiative_(2010)" title="California Proposition 19, Marijuana Legalization Initiative (2010)">California's Proposition 19</a>, is a classic in the genre. </p> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>See also: <a href="/Chart_of_2010_ballot_measure_issues" title="Chart of 2010 ballot measure issues">Chart of 2010 ballot measures by political topic</a></i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div id="div-gpt-ad-1548351761485-0"><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-1548351761485-0"); });</script></div><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/Primary_election_dates_in_2010" title="Primary election dates in 2010">Primary election dates, 2010</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span></h2> <ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=18629">2010 state elections</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Footnotes">Footnotes</span></h2> <p> <script type="text/javascript"> if(document.getElementsByClassName("reference").length==0) if(document.getElementById('Footnotes')!==null) document.getElementById('Footnotes').parentNode.style.display = 'none'; </script> </p> <div class="references-small"><div class="mobile-columns"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://www.cookpolitical.com/charts/governors/raceratings.php"><i>Cook Political Report</i>, "2010 Governor's Race Ratings," August 12, 2010</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=ratings-governor"><i>CQ Politics</i>, "Race Rating Chart: Governor," accessed August 12, 2010</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://rothenbergpoliticalreport.com/ratings/governor"><i>Rothenberg Political Report</i>, "Governor's Ratings," accessed August 12, 2010</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Approaching the November 2 general elections, only two post-certification lawsuits remained pending - (<a href="/Oklahoma_Voter_Identification_Measure,_State_Question_746_(2010)#Litigation" title="Oklahoma Voter Identification Measure, State Question 746 (2010)">SQ 746</a> and <a href="/Oklahoma_State_Question_751_(2010)#Litigation" class="mw-redirect" title="Oklahoma State Question 751 (2010)">SQ 751</a>). In some states pending court rulings do not necessarily remove measures from the ballot but instead prevent cast votes from being counted.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">The District of Columbia also had a ballot measure on its November 2 ballot - <a href="/Washington,_D.C._Attorney_General_Selection_(2010)" title="Washington, D.C. Attorney General Selection (2010)">Washington, D.C. Attorney General Selection (2010)</a>. On Ballotpedia, the DC ballot measure is <a href="/November_2,_2010_ballot_measures_in_Washington,_D.C." title="November 2, 2010 ballot measures in Washington, D.C.">grouped in with local</a>, city-wide ballot measures from cities such as Los Angeles, Houston or Detroit.</span> </li> </ol></div></div></div> <table class="navbox" cellspacing="0" style=";"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:2px;"><table cellspacing="0" class="collapsible autocollapse" style="width:100%;background:transparent;color:inherit;;"><tbody><tr><th style=";background:#bbccee;" colspan="3" class="navbox-title"><div style="float:left; width:6em;text-align:left;"><div class="noprint plainlinksneverexpand" style="background-color:transparent; padding:0; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:normal; font-size:xx-small; ;background:#bbccee;;border:none;;"><a href="/Template:Current_governors" title="Template:Current governors"><span title="View this template" style=";background:#bbccee;;border:none;;">v</span></a> <span style="font-size:80%;">•</span> <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Current_governors&action=edit"><span style="color:#002bb8;;background:#bbccee;;border:none;;" title="You can edit this template. 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line-height:1.4em;;;border-bottom:1px solid #88a;" class="navbox-list navbox-even"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em"><a href="/Ballot_Measure_Scorecard,_2010" title="Ballot Measure Scorecard, 2010">Scorecard</a> • <a href="/Ballot_measure_petition_deadlines_and_requirements,_2010" title="Ballot measure petition deadlines and requirements, 2010">Petition drive deadlines</a> • <a href="/Polls,_2010_ballot_measures" title="Polls, 2010 ballot measures">Polls</a> • <a href="/2010_ballot_measure_litigation" title="2010 ballot measure litigation">Litigation</a> (<a href="/List_of_ballot_measure_lawsuits_in_2010" title="List of ballot measure lawsuits in 2010">Lawsuits</a>) • <a href="/Potential_2010_ballot_measures" title="Potential 2010 ballot measures">Potential measures</a> • <a href="/Ballotpedia%27s_Tuesday_Count_for_2010" title="Ballotpedia's Tuesday Count for 2010">Tuesday Count</a> • <a href="/Changes_in_2010_to_laws_governing_ballot_measures" title="Changes in 2010 to laws governing ballot measures">Changes in 2010 to laws governing ballot measures</a> • <a href="/Official_voter_guides_to_2010_statewide_ballot_measures" title="Official voter guides to 2010 statewide ballot measures">Official voter guides</a> • <a href="/2010_ballot_measure_petition_signature_costs" title="2010 ballot measure petition signature costs">Petition signature costs</a> • <a href="/2010_ballot_measure_campaign_websites" title="2010 ballot measure campaign websites">2010 ballot measure campaign websites</a> • <a href="/Category:Certified,_but_removed_from_ballot,_2010" title="Category:Certified, but removed from ballot, 2010">Certified but removed</a> • <a href="/2010_ballot_measure_endorsements" title="2010 ballot measure endorsements">Media endorsements</a> • <a href="/Proposed_ballot_measures_that_were_not_on_a_ballot" title="Proposed ballot measures that were not on a ballot">Not on the ballot</a></div></td></tr><tr style="height:2px"><td></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-group" style=";background:#bbccee;;">Post-election</td><td style="text-align:left;border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;width:100%;padding:0px;padding:0.25em 0; 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