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election">Midterm elections</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Election day</th><td class="infobox-data">November 7</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Incumbent president</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> <span style="color:#8B0000">(Republican)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Next Congress</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/110th_United_States_Congress" title="110th United States Congress">110th</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ddd"><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_Senate_elections" title="2006 United States Senate elections">Senate elections</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Overall control</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="color:blue">Democratic gain</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Seats contested</th><td class="infobox-data">33 of 100 seats</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Net seat change</th><td class="infobox-data">Democratic +5</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><figure class="mw-halign-center noresize mw-ext-imagemap-desc-bottom-right" typeof="mw:File"><span><img 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style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#0671b0; color:#0671b0;">    </span> Democratic gain</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#fff600; color:#fff600;">    </span> Connecticut for Lieberman gain</span><br /><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#92c5de; color:#92c5de;">    </span> Democratic hold</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#f48882; color:#f48882;">    </span> Republican hold</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#999999; color:#999999;">    </span> Independent hold</span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ddd"><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="2006 United States House of Representatives elections">House elections</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Overall control</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="color:blue">Democratic gain</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Popular vote margin</th><td class="infobox-data">Democratic +8.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Net seat change</th><td class="infobox-data">Democratic +31</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:2006_House_elections.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="2006 House election results map" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/2006_House_elections.svg/350px-2006_House_elections.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/2006_House_elections.svg/525px-2006_House_elections.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/2006_House_elections.svg/700px-2006_House_elections.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2583" 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coords="196,45,196,40,197,40,198,40,199,40,201,40,203,38,204,38,205,38,204,39,203,40,203,41,204,41,205,40,205,40,206,41,207,41,208,43,209,43,218,45,219,45,220,46,221,47,222,50,223,51,221,53,221,55,221,56,223,55,223,54,226,50,226,50,226,51,224,55,224,58,224,58,224,59,223,59,223,61,224,62,224,63,223,64,223,65,222,66,222,66,223,67,223,69,224,70,224,72,218,72,206,73,206,72,205,72,204,71,204,69,205,68,203,67,203,63,202,62,201,61,198,59,198,58,197,58,196,57,195,57,194,56,194,52,194,51,194,50,193,49,193,47,195,46" alt="2006 Wisconsin gubernatorial election" title="2006 Wisconsin gubernatorial election" /><area href="/wiki/2006_Wyoming_gubernatorial_election" shape="poly" coords="85,80,90,48,109,50,129,53,128,71,126,84" alt="2006 Wyoming gubernatorial election" title="2006 Wyoming gubernatorial election" /><area href="/wiki/2006_Guam_gubernatorial_election" shape="rect" coords="218,203,205,216" alt="2006 Guam gubernatorial election" title="2006 Guam gubernatorial election" /><area href="/wiki/2006_United_States_Virgin_Islands_gubernatorial_election" shape="rect" coords="248,188,232,202" alt="2006 United States Virgin Islands gubernatorial election" title="2006 United States Virgin Islands gubernatorial election" /></map><figcaption></figcaption></figure></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">2006 Gubernatorial election results map <br /><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#0671b0; color:#0671b0;">    </span> Democratic gain</span> <br /><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#92c5de; color:#92c5de;">    </span> Democratic hold</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#f48882; color:#f48882;">    </span> Republican hold</span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>2006 United States elections</b> were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006, in the middle of <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>'s second term. In a political revolution that broke twelve years of Republican rule, the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a> was swept into majorities in both chambers of Congress and governorships. These elections were widely categorized as a <a href="/wiki/Wave_elections_in_the_United_States" title="Wave elections in the United States">Democratic wave</a>. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a>, Democrats won a net gain of six seats to secure a narrow majority in that chamber. Democrats also gained 31 seats in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a>, and following the election, <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> became the first female <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a>. In the gubernatorial elections, Democrats achieved a net gain of six seats. Nationwide, Republicans failed to win any congressional or gubernatorial seat that was held by a Democrat before the election. This was also the first time since 1994 where a party did not lose a single incumbent in a gubernatorial or congressional election. </p><p>Reasons for the Democratic Party's victory included the decline of the <a href="/wiki/Public_image_of_George_W._Bush" title="Public image of George W. Bush">public image of George W. Bush</a>, dissatisfaction of his administration's handling of both <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina">Hurricane Katrina</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">War in Iraq</a>, the beginning of the collapse of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_housing_bubble" class="mw-redirect" title="United States housing bubble">United States housing bubble</a>, Bush's legislative defeat regarding <a href="/wiki/Social_Security_debate_(United_States)#Politics_of_the_dispute_over_Bush's_proposal" class="mw-redirect" title="Social Security debate (United States)">Social Security Privatization</a> and immigration reform, the Republican-controlled Congress's unprecedented and unpopular involvement in the <a href="/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case" title="Terri Schiavo case">Terri Schiavo case</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/2006_Republican_party_scandals" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Republican party scandals">series of scandals in 2006 involving Republican politicians</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In March 2003, President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> ordered an invasion of <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, a state which the Bush administration claimed was linked to the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a> in 2001, and claimed was producing <a href="/wiki/Weapons_of_mass_destruction" class="mw-redirect" title="Weapons of mass destruction">weapons of mass destruction</a>. In May, just two months after the initial invasion, Bush announced the <a href="/wiki/2003_Mission_Accomplished_Speech" class="mw-redirect" title="2003 Mission Accomplished Speech">end of major combat operations in Iraq</a>. In the following months, insurgents began resisting the American occupation. Additionally, religious tensions between majority <a href="/wiki/Shiite" class="mw-redirect" title="Shiite">Shiite</a> and minority <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Muslims" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni Muslims">Sunni Muslims</a>, tensions which had been suppressed under the grip of Saddam's regime, resulted in violence. </p><p>By the end of 2003, despite the war's initial popularity, the <a href="/wiki/Post-invasion_Iraq,_2003%E2%80%93present" class="mw-redirect" title="Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–present">post-war occupation</a> was losing support from the American public. A November 2003 Gallup poll showed that Bush's job approval rating had fallen to 50% from a high of 71% at the outset of the war.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The next year, <a href="/wiki/2004_U.S._Presidential_Election" class="mw-redirect" title="2004 U.S. Presidential Election">Bush won reelection</a> over Democratic nominee <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senator</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a> with less than 51% of the popular vote and 286 <a href="/wiki/Electoral_votes" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral votes">electoral votes</a> (only 16 votes ahead of the 270 votes needed), marking the smallest winning margin for an incumbent president since <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1916_United_States_presidential_election" title="1916 United States presidential election">1916 election</a>. However, it was the first time since 1988 that a winner garnered a popular majority. </p><p>Terrorism and the war in Iraq dominated the election, with domestic issues taking a secondary role. Bush began his second term with a continuation of the occupation and a push to overhaul Social Security with his privatization plan. Both policies proved unpopular, and violence in Iraq continued to increase. Compounding the unpopularity of the war was the fact that no weapons of mass destruction were found. August 2005 was the last time any major public opinion poll recorded majority approval of Bush's job.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Negative perceptions of Bush, following the slow governmental response to <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina">Hurricane Katrina</a>, further weighed on his popularity. </p><p>Simultaneously, the popularity of the Republican-controlled <a href="/wiki/109th_United_States_Congress" title="109th United States Congress">109th Congress</a> was also on the decline. A series of notable congressional scandals also took place in Washington, D.C., including the ongoing <a href="/wiki/Jack_Abramoff_lobbying_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal">Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal</a>, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal" title="Mark Foley scandal">Mark Foley scandal</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cunningham_scandal" title="Cunningham scandal">Cunningham scandal</a>, both in October 2006. Throughout 2006, sectarian violence persisted in Baghdad and other areas of Iraq; many<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> claimed that the conflict was evolving into a <a href="/wiki/Civil_war" title="Civil war">civil war</a>. </p><p>President Bush's job approval rarely rose above 40%. Perceptions of Congress and Republicans in general, remained highly negative. Additionally, the Congress had a smaller than average list of major accomplishments (considering that the Party in charge of both the House and Senate also had control of the White House) and was not in session for a larger than average number of days. This allowed Democrats and others to characterize it as a "Do-Nothing" Congress and blame the Republican leadership for the lack of progress. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Summary_of_results">Summary of results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Summary of results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a> won a majority of the state governorships<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the U.S. House and Senate seats, each for the first time since <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_elections,_1994" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House elections, 1994">1994</a>, an election-year commonly known as the "<a href="/wiki/Republican_Revolution" title="Republican Revolution">Republican Revolution</a>." For the first time since the creation of the Republican Party in 1854, no Republican captured any House, Senate, or gubernatorial seat previously held by a Democrat.<sup id="cite_ref-David_R._Jones_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David_R._Jones-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Democrats took a 233–202 advantage in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a>, and achieved a 49–49 tie in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a>. The Senate figure is sometimes quoted in the media as 51–49, which includes two members who ran as independent candidates: <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">Bernie Sanders</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Lieberman" title="Joe Lieberman">Joe Lieberman</a>, who promised to caucus with the Democrats.<sup id="cite_ref-Lieberman:_Call_me_a_Democrat_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lieberman:_Call_me_a_Democrat-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The final Senate result was decided when Democrat <a href="/wiki/Jim_Webb" title="Jim Webb">Jim Webb</a> was declared the winner in <a href="/wiki/Virginia_United_States_Senate_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia United States Senate election, 2006">Virginia</a> against <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a> <a href="/wiki/George_Allen_(U.S._politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Allen (U.S. politician)">George Allen</a>, as reported by the <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On November 9, 2006, Allen and fellow Republican incumbent Sen. <a href="/wiki/Conrad_Burns" title="Conrad Burns">Conrad Burns</a> of Montana both conceded defeat, ceding effective control of the Senate to the Democrats.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The election made <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-California) the first-ever female, first-ever Italian-American, and first-ever <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">Californian</a> <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a><sup id="cite_ref-cnn.com_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnn.com-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Harry Reid</a> (D-Nevada) the first <a href="/wiki/Mormon" class="mw-redirect" title="Mormon">Mormon</a> <a href="/wiki/Senate_Majority_Leader" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate Majority Leader">Senate Majority Leader</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Keith_Ellison_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Keith Ellison (politician)">Keith Ellison</a> (D-Minnesota) became the first Muslim ever elected to the U.S. Congress<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Mazie_Hirono" title="Mazie Hirono">Mazie Hirono</a> (D-Hawaii) and <a href="/wiki/Hank_Johnson" title="Hank Johnson">Hank Johnson</a> (D-Georgia) became the first Buddhists in a United States governing body.<sup id="cite_ref-Scripps_Howard_News_Service_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scripps_Howard_News_Service-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although seven states banned recognition of <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States" title="Same-sex marriage in the United States">same-sex marriage</a>, Arizona became the first state to reject such a ballot initiative.<sup id="cite_ref-advocate.com_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-advocate.com-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota">South Dakota</a> rejected a ban on <a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States" title="Abortion in the United States">abortion</a> under almost any circumstances, intended to overturn federal constitutional abortion-rights nationwide by setting up a strong <a href="/wiki/Test_case" title="Test case">test case</a> that proponents hoped would lead to the overruling of <a href="/wiki/Roe_v._Wade" title="Roe v. Wade">Roe v. Wade</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This result would eventually happen in 2022, with a Mississippi state law that imposed a 15-week ban on abortion leading to the case <a href="/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_Health_Organization" title="Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization">Dobbs v. Jackson</a>, which then led to Roe's overturning. </p><p>Some of the Republican House and Senate seats lost by the Republicans belonged to members of the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Revolution" title="Republican Revolution">Republican Revolution</a> of 1994. Senators <a href="/wiki/Rick_Santorum" title="Rick Santorum">Rick Santorum</a> of Pennsylvania and <a href="/wiki/Mike_DeWine" title="Mike DeWine">Mike DeWine</a> of Ohio, and Representatives <a href="/wiki/Charles_Bass" title="Charles Bass">Charlie Bass</a> of New Hampshire, <a href="/wiki/John_Hostettler" title="John Hostettler">John Hostettler</a> of Indiana, <a href="/wiki/Gil_Gutknecht" title="Gil Gutknecht">Gil Gutknecht</a> of Minnesota, and <a href="/wiki/J._D._Hayworth" title="J. D. Hayworth">J. D. Hayworth</a> of Arizona all won previously Democratic seats in 1994 elections and were defeated in 2006. Representative <a href="/wiki/Sue_Kelly" title="Sue Kelly">Sue Kelly</a> of New York, also first elected in 1994, was defeated as well. The Democrats also won back the Kansas 2nd and Ohio 18th, both of which they had lost in 1994. </p><p>In the 2006 elections, the Democratic Party also claimed a majority of state governorships, gaining control of Republican-held governorships in New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, Arkansas, Maryland, and Ohio, giving the party a 28–22 advantage in governorships. </p><p>Various scandals, including the <a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal" title="Mark Foley scandal">Mark Foley congressional page scandal</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Jack_Abramoff#Overview_of_criminal_and_political_investigations" title="Jack Abramoff">Jack Abramoff scandal</a>, and various allegations of marital infidelity and abuse, doomed certain candidates, especially incumbents in <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania%27s_10th_congressional_district_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district election, 2006">PA-10</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_20th_congressional_district_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="New York's 20th congressional district election, 2006">NY-20</a>, which hosted one of the most negative campaigns in the country. Virginia Senator <a href="/wiki/George_Allen_(U.S._politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Allen (U.S. politician)">George Allen</a>, a potential Republican 2008 Presidential candidate, saw his chances for reelection disappear when he was caught on video using a racial slur to describe a young <a href="/wiki/Indian-American" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian-American">Indian-American</a> who worked for his opponent's campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Federal_elections">Federal elections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Federal elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Republicans won control of Congress for the first time since the <a href="/wiki/1994_United_States_elections" title="1994 United States elections">1994 election</a>, which is commonly known as the "<a href="/wiki/Republican_Revolution" title="Republican Revolution">Republican Revolution</a>." For the first time since the creation of the Republican party in 1854, no Republican captured any House, Senate, or Gubernatorial seat previously held by a Democrat.<sup id="cite_ref-David_R._Jones_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David_R._Jones-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States_Senate">United States Senate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: United States Senate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_Senate_elections" title="2006 United States Senate elections">2006 United States Senate elections</a></div> <p>The 33 seats in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> <a href="/wiki/Classes_of_United_States_Senators" class="mw-redirect" title="Classes of United States Senators">Class 1</a> were up for election. The Democrats gained six Senate seats by defeating Republican Senators in the states of <a href="/wiki/Claire_McCaskill" title="Claire McCaskill">Missouri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jon_Tester" title="Jon Tester">Montana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sherrod_Brown" title="Sherrod Brown">Ohio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Casey,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Bob Casey, Jr.">Pennsylvania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheldon_Whitehouse" title="Sheldon Whitehouse">Rhode Island</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Webb" title="Jim Webb">Virginia</a>. Including <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">Bernie Sanders</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Lieberman" title="Joe Lieberman">Joe Lieberman</a>, two independents who caucused with the Democrats, Democrats won a 51-to-49 majority in the Senate.<sup id="cite_ref-Lieberman:_Call_me_a_Democrat_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lieberman:_Call_me_a_Democrat-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Summary of the November 7, 2006, United States Senate election results</b> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" rowspan="2">Parties </th> <td style="background-color:#E81B23"> </td> <td style="background-color:#3333FF"> </td> <td style="background-color:#DDDDBB"> </td> <td style="background-color:#FED105"> </td> <td style="background-color:#17aa5c"> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFC14E"> </td> <td style="background-color:#A356DE"> </td> <td style="background-color:white"> </td> <th rowspan="2">Total </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Independent_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (United States)">Independent</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_the_United_States" title="Green Party of the United States">Green</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Independence_Party_of_America" title="Independence Party of America">Independence</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Constitution_Party_(United_States)" title="Constitution Party (United States)">Constitution</a> </th> <th>Others </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Before these elections </th> <th style="background-color:#FFB6B6">55 </th> <th>44 </th> <th>1<sup id="cite_ref-ID_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ID-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>— </th> <th>— </th> <th>— </th> <th>— </th> <th>— </th> <th>100 </th></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3" style="background:#cccccc">Not Up </th> <th>Total </th> <td>40 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">27 </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>67 </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#dddddd"><span style="font-size:85%;">Class 2 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2002" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate elections, 2002">2002</a>→<a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2008" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate elections, 2008">2008</a>)</span> </th> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">21 </td> <td>12 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>33 </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#dddddd"><span style="font-size:85%;">Class 3 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2004" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate elections, 2004">2004</a>→<a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate elections, 2010">2010</a>)</span> </th> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">19 </td> <td>15 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>34 </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#cccccc">Up </th> <th style="background:#dddddd">Class 1 </th> <td>15 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">17 </td> <td>1<sup id="cite_ref-ID_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ID-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>33 </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="99"> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2" style="background:#cccccc">Incumbent<br />retired </th> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">Held by same party</span> </th> <td>1 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>4 </th></tr> <tr> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">Replaced by other party</span> </th> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>0 </th></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="6" style="background:#cccccc">Incumbent<br />ran </th> <th>Total before </th> <td>14 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">15<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>29 </th></tr> <tr> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">Won re-election</span> </th> <td>8 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">14 </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>22 </th></tr> <tr> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">Lost re-election</span> </th> <td colspan="2" style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 6 Republicans replaced<br />by <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 6 Democrats </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>6 </th></tr> <tr> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">Lost renomination, held by same party</span> </th> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>0 </th></tr> <tr> <th><span style="font-size:85%;">Lost renomination, and party lost</span> </th> <td>— </td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 Democrat re-elected<br />as an <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> Independent<sup id="cite_ref-ID_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ID-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>1 </th></tr> <tr> <th>Result after </th> <td>8 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">20 </td> <td>1<sup id="cite_ref-ID_19-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ID-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>29 </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Net gain/loss </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 6 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 5 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <td>— </td> <th>6 </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Total elected </th> <th>9 </th> <th style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">22 </th> <th>2<sup id="cite_ref-ID_19-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ID-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>— </th> <th>— </th> <th>— </th> <th>— </th> <th>— </th> <th>33 </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="99"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Result </th> <th>49 </th> <th style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">49 </th> <th style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2<sup id="cite_ref-ID_19-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ID-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>— </th> <th>— </th> <th>— </th> <th>— </th> <th>— </th> <th>100 </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="99"> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2" style="background:#cccccc">Popular<br />vote </th> <th>Votes (turnout: 29.7 %) </th> <td>25,437,934 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">32,344,708 </td> <td>378,142 </td> <td>612,732 </td> <td>295,935 </td> <td>231,899 </td> <td>26,934 </td> <td>1,115,432 </td> <th>60,839,144 </th></tr> <tr> <th>Share </th> <td>41.81% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">53.16% </td> <td>0.62% </td> <td>1.01% </td> <td>0.49% </td> <td>0.38% </td> <td>0.04% </td> <td>1.83% </td> <th>100% </th></tr> </tbody></table> <p><i>Sources:</i> </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2006&off=3&f=0">Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Elections</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://elections.gmu.edu/Turnout_2006G.html">United States Elections Project at George Mason University</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130125091319/http://elections.gmu.edu/Turnout_2006G.html">Archived</a> January 25, 2013, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States_House_of_Representatives">United States House of Representatives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: United States House of Representatives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_House_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 United States House elections">2006 United States House elections</a></div> <p>All 435 seats in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> were up for election. The Democrats won the national popular vote by a margin of eight percentage points and gained thirty-one seats from the Republicans.<sup id="cite_ref-house1_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-house1-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The election made <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-California) the first-ever female, first-ever Italian-American, and first-ever <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">Californian</a> <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a><sup id="cite_ref-cnn.com_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnn.com-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Keith_Ellison_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Keith Ellison (politician)">Keith Ellison</a> (D-Minnesota) became the first Muslim ever elected to the U.S. Congress<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Mazie_Hirono" title="Mazie Hirono">Mazie Hirono</a> (D-Hawaii) and <a href="/wiki/Hank_Johnson" title="Hank Johnson">Hank Johnson</a> (D-Georgia) became the first Buddhists in a United States governing body.<sup id="cite_ref-Scripps_Howard_News_Service_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scripps_Howard_News_Service-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; font-size: 95%;"> <caption>Summary of the November 7, 2006, <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 2006">election</a> results </caption> <tbody><tr> <th style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="2" rowspan="2">Party </th> <th style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan="4">Seats </th> <th style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan="3">Popular vote </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_elections,_2004" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House elections, 2004">2004</a> </th> <th style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;">2006 </th> <th style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;">Net<br />change </th> <th style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;">% </th> <th style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;">Vote </th> <th style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;">% </th> <th style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;">+/− </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #0000ff; width: 5px"> </td> <td style="text-align: left"><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">202 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>233</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 31 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">53.6% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">42,338,795 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">52.3% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+5.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #ff0000; width: 5px"> </td> <td style="text-align: left"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">232 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>202</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 30 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">46.4% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">35,857,334 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">44.3% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−5.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FED105;">  </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian Party</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">656,764 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.8% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC;">  </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">1</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>0</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">- </td> <td style="text-align:right;">417,895 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.5% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#17aa5c;">  </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_the_United_States" title="Green Party of the United States">Green Party</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">243,391 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">- </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#A356DE;">  </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Constitution_Party_(United_States)" title="Constitution Party (United States)">Constitution Party</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">91,133 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFC14E;">  </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Independence_Party_of_America" title="Independence Party of America">Independence Party</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">85,815 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">- </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#6A287E;">  </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_of_the_United_States_of_America" title="Reform Party of the United States of America">Reform Party</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">53,862 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:white;">  </td> <td style="text-align:left;">Other parties </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,230,548 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.5% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align:right; font-weight: bold" colspan="2">Totals </td> <td style="text-align:right;background-color: #f2f2f2; font-weight: bold">435 </td> <td style="text-align:right;background-color: #f2f2f2; font-weight: bold">435 </td> <td style="text-align:right;background-color: #f2f2f2; font-weight: bold">− </td> <td style="text-align:right;background-color: #f2f2f2; font-weight: bold">100.0% </td> <td style="text-align:right;background-color: #f2f2f2; font-weight: bold">80,975,537 </td> <td style="text-align:right;background-color: #f2f2f2; font-weight: bold">100.0% </td> <td style="text-align:right;background-color: #f2f2f2; font-weight: bold">− </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left" colspan="10">Voter turnout: 36.8% </th></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9"> <td style="text-align:left;" colspan="9">Sources: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://history.house.gov/Institution/Election-Statistics/">Election Statistics - Office of the Clerk</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="State_elections">State elections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: State elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Governors">Governors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Governors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_gubernatorial_elections" title="2006 United States gubernatorial elections">2006 United States gubernatorial elections</a></div> <p>Of the 50 <a href="/wiki/Governor#United_States" title="Governor">United States governors</a>, 36 were up for election. Twenty two of those contested seats were held by Republicans, and the remaining 14 were held by Democrats. Of the 36 state governorships up for election, ten were open due to retirement, term limits, or primary loss. Democrats won open Republican-held seats in New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Arkansas and Colorado, in addition to defeating incumbent <a href="/wiki/Bob_Ehrlich" title="Bob Ehrlich">Bob Ehrlich</a> in Maryland and holding their sole open seat in Iowa. As a result of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_gubernatorial_elections,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="United States gubernatorial elections, 2006">2006 gubernatorial elections</a>, there were 28 Democratic governors and 22 Republican governors, a reversal of the numbers held by the respective parties prior to the elections. </p><p>Additionally, governorships were up for election in the <a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">U.S. territories</a> of <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a>, held by a Republican, and the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Virgin_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a>, where the Democratic governor was retiring. In each location, the incumbent party maintained control of the governorship. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_legislatures">State legislatures</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: State legislatures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_state_legislative_elections" title="2006 United States state legislative elections">2006 United States state legislative elections</a></div> <p>Nearly all <a href="/wiki/State_legislature_(United_States)" title="State legislature (United States)">state legislatures</a> were up for election. Prior to the general elections, with the exception of the <a href="/wiki/Non-partisan_democracy" title="Non-partisan democracy">nonpartisan</a> <a href="/wiki/Nebraska_Legislature" title="Nebraska Legislature">Nebraska Legislature</a>, 21 legislatures were controlled by Republicans, 19 by Democrats, and 9 were split legislatures (where each house is controlled by a different party). As a result of the 2006 elections, 23 legislatures were carried by Democrats, 16 by Republicans, and 10 legislatures were split. In all, Republicans lost, and Democrats gained more than 300 state legislative seats. </p><p>Democrats flipped ten legislative chambers, while Republicans gained control of one. In total, Democrats gained or retained control of the state legislatures and governorships of 15 states, thus creating a unified government in <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iowa" title="Iowa">Iowa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a>, although the governorship of Louisiana reverted to the Republicans with the October 2007 election of <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Jindal" title="Bobby Jindal">Bobby Jindal</a>. Republicans now control ten state governments, these being, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Idaho" title="Idaho">Idaho</a>, <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Dakota" title="North Dakota">North Dakota</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota">South Dakota</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Democrats flipped ten legislative chambers. Democrats gained control of the <a href="/wiki/Oregon_House_of_Representatives" title="Oregon House of Representatives">Oregon House of Representatives</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_House_of_Representatives" title="Minnesota House of Representatives">Minnesota House of Representatives</a>, both houses of the <a href="/wiki/Iowa_General_Assembly" title="Iowa General Assembly">Iowa General Assembly</a>, and both houses of the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_General_Court" title="New Hampshire General Court">New Hampshire General Court</a>- for the first time since 1875, giving them complete legislative control over those states. The Iowa Senate was previously tied. Democrats also won majorities in the <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_Senate" title="Wisconsin Senate">Wisconsin Senate</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Michigan_House_of_Representatives" title="Michigan House of Representatives">Michigan House of Representatives</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_House_of_Representatives" title="Pennsylvania House of Representatives">Pennsylvania House of Representatives</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Indiana_House_of_Representatives" title="Indiana House of Representatives">Indiana House of Representatives</a>, turning those legislatures into split bodies.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, a Democratic-led coalition was created in the <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaska Senate">Alaska Senate</a>, which was previously a Republican majority.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Democrats won a majority of state legislative chambers for the first time since 1995. </p><p>Conversely, Republicans gained control of the <a href="/wiki/Montana_House_of_Representatives" title="Montana House of Representatives">Montana House of Representatives</a> with the lone <a href="/wiki/Constitution_Party_(United_States)" title="Constitution Party (United States)">Constitution Party</a> representative voting for Republican control of that body. </p><p>Democrats won a veto-proof supermajority in both houses of the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_General_Assembly" title="Connecticut General Assembly">Connecticut General Assembly</a>, with Democrats holding a commanding 131–56 majority. The most dramatic change in party control occurred with the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_General_Court" title="New Hampshire General Court">New Hampshire General Court</a>, where Republicans held a 92-seat majority in the House and an eight-seat majority in the Senate prior to the election. Ultimately, Republicans were down 81 seats in the House and five in the Senate, giving control of the General Court to the Democrats. This coincided with the landslide reelection of Democratic Governor <a href="/wiki/John_H._Lynch" class="mw-redirect" title="John H. Lynch">John Lynch</a>, the takeover of both of New Hampshire's U.S. House seats by Democrats, and New Hampshire's unique <a href="/wiki/Executive_Council_of_New_Hampshire" title="Executive Council of New Hampshire">Executive Council</a> gaining a Democratic majority. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Third_parties">Third parties</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Third parties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Third parties received largely mixed results in the 2006 elections. In the <a href="/wiki/Maine_House_of_Representatives" title="Maine House of Representatives">Maine House of Representatives</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maine_Green_Independent_Party" title="Maine Green Independent Party">Green</a> State Representative <a href="/wiki/John_Eder" title="John Eder">John Eder</a> was narrowly defeated by Democratic rival <a href="/wiki/Jon_Hinck" title="Jon Hinck">Jon Hinck</a> in a bitterly contested campaign over <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Maine" title="Portland, Maine">Portland's</a> 118th District. Eder's loss deprived the U.S. Green movement's highest elected position in any state office.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Vermont_House_of_Representatives" title="Vermont House of Representatives">Vermont House of Representatives</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Vermont_Progressive_Party" title="Vermont Progressive Party">Vermont Progressive Party</a> successfully maintained its six seats within the chamber. The Vermont Progressive Party has in recent years become one of the most consistently successful third parties in the U.S. to be elected to higher office. </p><p>In Illinois, seemingly out of dissatisfaction with both the candidacies of Democratic Governor <a href="/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich" title="Rod Blagojevich">Rod Blagojevich</a> and Republican candidate <a href="/wiki/Judy_Baar_Topinka" title="Judy Baar Topinka">Judy Baar Topinka</a> resulted in 10% of the electorate voting for the <a href="/wiki/Green_Party_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Green Party (United States)">Green Party</a> candidate Rich Whitney, an accomplishment, by all means, considering Whitney did not campaign on television or radio. </p><p>In Montana, <a href="/wiki/Rick_Jore" title="Rick Jore">Rick Jore</a> made history by becoming the first candidate of the right-wing <a href="/wiki/Constitution_Party_(United_States)" title="Constitution Party (United States)">Constitution Party</a> to be elected to a state legislature, elected to the 12th District in the <a href="/wiki/Montana_House_of_Representatives" title="Montana House of Representatives">Montana House of Representatives</a>. Jore initially won in 2004 by three votes, only to see the courts throw out enough ballots to give the Democrats the victory. In the 2006 elections, Jore won convincingly, garnering 56.2% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the Montana Constitution Party is no longer chartered under the national party, denying the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution Party">United States Constitution Party</a> the claim of holding a higher office. </p><p>Neither the <a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> nor the <a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Reform Party (United States)">Reform</a> Parties gained any state legislative seats. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ballot_initiatives">Ballot initiatives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Ballot initiatives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Voters weighed in on various ballot initiatives. These included: </p> <ul><li>In a hotly contested referendum that inspired a widely publicized feud between conservative radio talk show host <a href="/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh" title="Rush Limbaugh">Rush Limbaugh</a> and actor <a href="/wiki/Michael_J._Fox" title="Michael J. Fox">Michael J. Fox</a>, Missouri voters narrowly passed an initiative to allow funding for embryonic stem cell research. The presence of the referendum on the ballot may also have aided Democrat Claire McCaskill in her victory over incumbent senator <a href="/wiki/Jim_Talent" title="Jim Talent">Jim Talent</a>, who had opposed the measure.</li> <li>An amendment to the Missouri Constitution that would have levied a Tobacco Tax was defeated 51 to 48.</li> <li>Raising the <a href="/wiki/Minimum_wage" title="Minimum wage">minimum wage</a>, which passed in all six states with such referendums (<a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">AZ</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">CO</a>, <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">MO</a>, <a href="/wiki/Montana" title="Montana">MT</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">NV</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">OH</a>)</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a> an initiative to repeal the estate tax failed.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:U.S._state_constitutional_amendments_banning_same-sex_unions,_November_7,_2006.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/U.S._state_constitutional_amendments_banning_same-sex_unions%2C_November_7%2C_2006.svg/400px-U.S._state_constitutional_amendments_banning_same-sex_unions%2C_November_7%2C_2006.svg.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/U.S._state_constitutional_amendments_banning_same-sex_unions%2C_November_7%2C_2006.svg/600px-U.S._state_constitutional_amendments_banning_same-sex_unions%2C_November_7%2C_2006.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/U.S._state_constitutional_amendments_banning_same-sex_unions%2C_November_7%2C_2006.svg/800px-U.S._state_constitutional_amendments_banning_same-sex_unions%2C_November_7%2C_2006.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="990" data-file-height="627" /></a><figcaption> <b>Vote for same-sex marriage ban by counties:</b> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px#AAAAAA solid;background-color:#006400; color:white;"> </span> 90–100% </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px #AAAAAA solid;background-color:#228B22; color:black;"> </span> 80–90% </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px #AAAAAA solid;background-color:#32CD32; color:black;"> </span> 70–80% </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px #AAAAAA solid;background-color:#00FF00; color:black;"> </span> 60–70% </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px #AAAAAA solid;background-color:#ADFF2F; color:black;"> </span> 50–60% </div> <b>Vote against same-sex marriage ban by counties:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px #AAAAAA solid;background-color:#aa0000; color:white;"> </span> 70–80% </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px #AAAAAA solid;background-color:#cc2f4a; color:white;"> </span> 60–70% </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px #AAAAAA solid;background-color:#e27f90; color:black;"> </span> 50–60% </div></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/U.S._state_constitutional_amendments_banning_same-sex_unions" title="U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions">State constitutional amendments</a> prohibiting <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriage</a> are passed in seven out of eight states: <a href="/wiki/Colorado_Amendment_43" class="mw-redirect" title="Colorado Amendment 43">Colorado</a>, <a href="/wiki/Idaho_Amendment_2_(2006)" class="mw-redirect" title="Idaho Amendment 2 (2006)">Idaho</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_Amendment_1" title="South Carolina Amendment 1">South Carolina</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Dakota_Amendment_C" class="mw-redirect" title="South Dakota Amendment C">South Dakota</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Amendment_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Tennessee Amendment 1">Tennessee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marshall-Newman_Amendment" class="mw-redirect" title="Marshall-Newman Amendment">Virginia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_Referendum_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Wisconsin Referendum 1">Wisconsin</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Arizona_Proposition_107_(2006)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arizona Proposition 107 (2006)">Arizona</a> voting against the proposition that would ban same-sex marriage and <a href="/wiki/Civil_union" title="Civil union">civil unions</a>, the first state in the nation to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-advocate.com_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-advocate.com-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The measures in Colorado and Tennessee bans same-sex marriage only, while Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wisconsin bans both same-sex marriage and civil unions and Virginia bans granting any benefits whatsoever to same-sex couples.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_Referendum_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Colorado Referendum I">Colorado</a> voters narrowly rejected an amendment to establish domestic partnerships by a margin of 53% to 47%.</li> <li>Legalizing <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">cannabis</a>, failing in both states with such referendums for use for unconditional reasons (<a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a>) as well as for medical use only (<a href="/wiki/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota">South Dakota</a>)</li> <li>Restricting <a href="/wiki/Affirmative_action" title="Affirmative action">affirmative action</a>, passing in <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a></li> <li>Requiring <a href="/wiki/Parental_notification" class="mw-redirect" title="Parental notification">parental notification</a> before an <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a> for <a href="/wiki/Minor_(law)" title="Minor (law)">minors</a>, failing in both states with such referendums (<a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a>)</li> <li>Banning nearly all abortions, including those for victims of <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a> and <a href="/wiki/Incest" title="Incest">incest</a>, which failed in South Dakota</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" title="Instant-runoff voting">Instant-runoff voting</a>, which passed in the city of <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis,_Minnesota" class="mw-redirect" title="Minneapolis, Minnesota">Minneapolis, Minnesota</a></li> <li>A referendum to ease restrictions on <a href="/wiki/Wine" title="Wine">wine</a> sales in <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, which failed.</li> <li>Rhode Island voters approved a constitutional amendment to reextend the franchise to former criminals following their release, effectively enfranchising individuals on parole or probation.</li> <li>In California, voters endorsed a $37 billion package of bonds (Propositions 1A through 1E) to pay for transportation projects, housing, levee repairs and other infrastructure—said to be the largest program of its kind in U.S. history.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Local_elections">Local elections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Local elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Numerous other elections for local, city, and county public offices were held. </p><p>An unusual local election occurred in <a href="/wiki/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota">South Dakota</a>; <a href="/wiki/Marie_Steichen" title="Marie Steichen">Marie Steichen</a> was elected to <a href="/wiki/Jerauld_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerauld County">Jerauld County</a> Commissioner, despite the fact that she died two months before the election. Her name was never replaced on the ballot, and voters who chose her were aware of her death.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_California" title="Richmond, California">Richmond, California</a>, a city of more than 100,000 residents, the Green Party challenger, City Councilperson <a href="/wiki/Gayle_McLaughlin" title="Gayle McLaughlin">Gayle McLaughlin</a>, unseated Democratic incumbent <a href="/wiki/Irma_Anderson" title="Irma Anderson">Irma Anderson</a> and became the first Green Party Mayor of a city of that size.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two candidates in Nevada's branch of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_Party_(United_States)" title="Constitution Party (United States)">Constitution Party</a>, called the <a href="/wiki/Independent_American_Party_(Nevada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent American Party (Nevada)">Independent American Party (Nevada)</a>, were also elected to office. Jackie Berg was elected <a href="/wiki/Eureka_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Eureka County">Eureka County</a> Clerk with 54.1% of the vote, easily topping <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> and <a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> opposition. Also, Cel Ochoa will be the new Constable in <a href="/wiki/Searchlight,_Nevada" title="Searchlight, Nevada">Searchlight, Nevada</a> by virtue of winning 54.93% of the vote to defeat her Republican rival. Another Nevada Independent Party member, Bill Wilkerson, was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Elko,_Nevada" title="Elko, Nevada">Elko, Nevada</a>, School Board, in a non-partisan race.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Missoula_County,_Montana" title="Missoula County, Montana">Missoula County, Montana</a>, residents passed a measure to encourage the County Sheriff's Department to make marijuana enforcement a last priority.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Dallas_County,_Texas" title="Dallas County, Texas">Dallas County, Texas</a>, Democrats regained control in 41 out of 42 contested GOP judgeships, as well as the district attorney's office and the county judge's seat.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reasons_for_Democratic_win">Reasons for Democratic win</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Reasons for Democratic win"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beginning just after George W. Bush's <a href="/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election" title="2004 United States presidential election">reelection</a>, political analysts point to a number of factors and events that led to the eventual Republican defeat in 2006. It is generally agreed that the single most important issue during the 2006 election was the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Iraq">war in Iraq</a>, and more specifically President Bush's handling of it and the overall public weariness over it. </p><p>Public opinion polling conducted during the days just before the election and the weeks just after it showed that the war in Iraq was considered the most important election issue by the largest segment of the public.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Exit polling showed that relatively large majorities of voters both fell into the category of disapproving of the war or expressing the desire to withdraw troops in some type of capacity. Both brackets broke extremely heavily for Democrats.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The issue of the war seemed to play a large part in the nationalization of the election, a departure from previous midterm elections, which tended to be about local, district-centric issues.<sup id="cite_ref-ABC-Analysis_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABC-Analysis-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The effect of this was a general nationwide advantage for Democrats, who were not seen as being as tied to the war as Republicans, led by George Bush, were. </p><p>President Bush himself, seen as the leader and face of the Republican party, was a large factor in the 2006 election. Exit polls showed that a large block of the electorate had voted for Democrats or for third parties specifically because of personal opposition to or dislike for Bush. The size of the segment that said it had voted specifically to support Bush was not as large.<sup id="cite_ref-ABC-Analysis_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABC-Analysis-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Opposition to Bush was based on a number of factors, these not limited to opposition to his <a href="/wiki/Social_Security_debate_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Social Security debate (United States)">Social Security privatization plan</a>, the slow response of his administration to <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina">Hurricane Katrina</a>, his perceived inaction in the face of and association with <a href="/wiki/Oil_price_increases_since_2003" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil price increases since 2003">rising gas prices</a>, and as mentioned above, his continued commitment to the war.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Congressional approval, which had been slightly negative since before the 2004 election, began a steady drop beginning in March 2005. Congress's unprecedented and unpopular involvement in the <a href="/wiki/Terri_Schiavo" class="mw-redirect" title="Terri Schiavo">Terri Schiavo</a> controversy is often pointed to as the catalyst for this drop. Congressional scandals, such as the <a href="/wiki/Jack_Abramoff_Indian_lobbying_scandal" title="Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal">Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal</a>, the sentencing of <a href="/wiki/Duke_Cunningham" title="Duke Cunningham">Duke Cunningham</a> to over eight years in prison, the <a href="/wiki/Tom_DeLay_corruption_investigation" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom DeLay corruption investigation">indictment of then House majority leader Tom DeLay</a>, the corruption of <a href="/wiki/William_J._Jefferson" class="mw-redirect" title="William J. Jefferson">William J. Jefferson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Ney" title="Bob Ney">Bob Ney</a>, the misconduct of <a href="/wiki/Cynthia_McKinney" title="Cynthia McKinney">Cynthia McKinney</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley" title="Mark Foley">Mark Foley</a> scandal all continued to pull down congressional popularity. In the months leading up to the election, congressional approval ratings flirted with all-time historical lows. Because congress was controlled by Republicans, this high disapproval affected Republicans much more negatively than it did Democrats. </p><p>Democrats were successful in portraying the congress as a lazy, greedy, egotistical and inefficient "Do-Nothing Congress.", which they contrasted with their "<a href="/wiki/New_Direction_for_America" title="New Direction for America">New Direction for America</a>" campaign. Indeed, the congress had been in session much less than previous ones had<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (including those under Republican control), and numerous public opinion polls showed that large majorities believed that the congress had accomplished less than normal. This too, took a toll on Republicans (as the leaders of the government). </p><p>The listed scandals were all dwarfed by the highly publicised <a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal" title="Mark Foley scandal">Mark Foley scandal</a>, which broke in late September and rapidly metastasized to include the House Republican leadership. Florida Representative <a href="/wiki/Mark_Foley" title="Mark Foley">Mark Foley</a>, who ironically headed the <a href="/wiki/House_Caucus_on_Missing_and_Exploited_Children" class="mw-redirect" title="House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children">House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children</a>, was found to have been making sexually lewd and highly inappropriate contacts online with male congressional pages, and it was soon found that members of the Republican leadership knew in some capacity of Foley's advances, yet took little action. The scandal allowed Democrats to adopt corruption as a campaign issue, and exit polls on election day showed that corruption remained an important issue, one that Democrats held an advantage on.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, many (at the time and after the fact) cited the scandal as an event that sealed the fate of the Republican congress.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the election, top Republican strategist Karl Rove specifically named the Foley scandal as the cause of the Republicans' loss of congress.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The result was that on election day, many congressional seats had been touched by Republican scandals and were easier to pick up for Democrats than under normal conditions. These include but are not limited to the <a href="/wiki/Montana_United_States_Senate_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Montana United States Senate election, 2006">Montana Senate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia_United_States_Senate_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia United States Senate election, 2006">Virginia Senate</a>, <a href="/wiki/California%27s_11th_congressional_district" title="California's 11th congressional district">CA-11</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania%27s_7th_congressional_district" title="Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district">PA-07</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania%27s_10th_congressional_district" title="Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district">PA-10</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_22nd_congressional_district" title="Texas's 22nd congressional district">TX-22</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohio%27s_18th_congressional_district" title="Ohio's 18th congressional district">OH-18</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida%27s_16th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 16th congressional district">FL-16</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_20th_congressional_district" title="New York's 20th congressional district">NY-20</a> races. </p><p>Almost all of the gains made by Democrats came from large gains among independents, not Republicans. Democrats, Republicans, and independents all accounted for proportions of the electorate similar to what they did in 2004. Democrats and Republicans voted nearly as loyally for their parties in 2006 as they did in 2004, but independents exhibited a large swing towards Democrats. In 2004, independents split 49–46, slightly in favor of Democrats,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but in 2006 they voted 57–39 for Democrats, a fifteen-point swing and the largest margin among independents for Democrats since the <a href="/wiki/United_States_elections,_1986" class="mw-redirect" title="United States elections, 1986">1986 elections</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ABC-Analysis_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABC-Analysis-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Voting_issues">Voting issues</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Voting issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There were scattered reports of problems at polling places across the country as new electronic voting systems were introduced in many states. The problems ranged from voter and election official confusion about how to use new voting machines to apparent political dirty tricks designed to keep certain voters from casting their votes to inclement voter suppressing turnout. </p><p>Some reported problems: </p> <ul><li>Millions of allegedly harassing and deceptive "robo-calls" were reported or placed in at least 53 house districts. The vast majority of the calls were reported to begin with the message "Hello, I'm calling with information about (Democratic candidate)" and continue with a negative message concerning the candidate. Regulatory statements concerning the sponsor of the message (usually the NRCC) allegedly did not come until after the message, instead of before, as the FCC mandates. Citizens reported receiving calls several times an hour and as late as 2:30 AM, and many held the mistaken belief that the calls were from Democratic campaigns.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Massive undervoting in several <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a> counties, likely caused by bad ballot design.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An analysis from the <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Sentinel" title="Orlando Sentinel">Orlando Sentinel</a> claims the undervoting swung an election to the GOP in <a href="/wiki/Florida%27s_13th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 13th congressional district">Florida's 13th congressional district</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Democratic candidate <a href="/wiki/Christine_Jennings" title="Christine Jennings">Christine Jennings</a> brings a lawsuit to court.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Gateway,_Arkansas" title="Gateway, Arkansas">Gateway, Arkansas</a>, an 80% turnout was recorded, including two towns where the number of votes surpassed the estimated number of voters from the previous year's census.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waldenburg,_Arkansas" title="Waldenburg, Arkansas">Waldenburg, Arkansas</a> mayoral candidate, Randy Wooten, gets no votes despite claiming he voted for himself and "at least eight or nine people who said they voted for [him]."<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania">Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</a> area, officials could not print reports to verify that voting machines were secure and did not already have votes in them.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Voting-machine problems kept polls open until 9:00 PM, an hour later than scheduled, in <a href="/wiki/Lebanon_County,_Pennsylvania" title="Lebanon County, Pennsylvania">Lebanon County, Pennsylvania</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A man in <a href="/wiki/Allentown,_Pennsylvania" title="Allentown, Pennsylvania">Allentown, Pennsylvania</a> smashed an electronic voting machine with a paperweight. The votes were recovered.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In a small town in Oklahoma, a power outage in a polling station was caused by a squirrel gnawing on a power cable.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Officials and experts reported electronic voting machine malfunctions in Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, Colorado and Florida.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A bomb threat at East High School caused a voting shutdown in <a href="/wiki/Madison,_Wisconsin" title="Madison, Wisconsin">Madison, Wisconsin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A Kentucky poll worker was charged with choking a voter.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Vandals chained the main door and broke keys into the locks of New Jersey Republican candidate for Senate Tom Kean Jr.'s headquarters. Accusations have been made towards Democratic incumbent Bob Menendez, but they deny any involvement in the situation.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Disabled voters were asked by election officials in <a href="/wiki/Bonneville_County,_Idaho" title="Bonneville County, Idaho">Bonneville County, Idaho</a> to use punch card ballots.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Irregularities with <a href="/wiki/Diebold_Election_Systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Diebold Election Systems">Diebold</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Voting_machine" title="Voting machine">voting machines</a> have been reported in the early elections.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Chicago Board of Elections has been running a Web site that has allowed, by a simple programming hack, the exposure of personal information of a million registered voters (fixed on October 21, 2006).<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Reports from Virginia:<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li>FBI looking into possible Virginia voter intimidation.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Calls that voting will lead to arrest.</li> <li>Telling voters that their polling location has changed.</li> <li>Fliers in Buckingham county say "Skip the election"</li> <li>Voting machine problems.</li></ul></li> <li>On Election day November 7, talk show host <a href="/wiki/Laura_Ingraham" title="Laura Ingraham">Laura Ingraham</a> prompted listeners to jam the Democratic Voter Protection hotline where voting problems were to be reported,<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reminiscent of the <a href="/wiki/2002_New_Hampshire_Senate_election_phone_jamming_scandal" title="2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal">2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal</a>.</li> <li>In Maryland, some voters were given sample ballots by Republican supporters that incorrectly listed Republicans Robert Ehrlich and Michael Steele as Democrats.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Electronic voting machine problems in <a href="/wiki/Kane_County,_Illinois" title="Kane County, Illinois">Kane County, Illinois</a> kept the polls open until 8:30pm CST, an hour and a half later than scheduled.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In western <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a>, flooding from heavy rainfall interfered with the elections.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Denver,_Colorado" class="mw-redirect" title="Denver, Colorado">Denver, Colorado</a>, the computer system containing the voter registration rolls slowed down and crashed on several occasions during the day causing lines that were over two hours long at some vote centers.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some vote centers ran out of provisional ballots, and sample ballots had to be used instead.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Also in Denver, 44,000 absentee ballots were misprinted with the "yes" and "no" positions on a ballot issue reversed. Also, the <a href="/wiki/Bar_code" class="mw-redirect" title="Bar code">bar code</a> designating the ballot style was misprinted, requiring the ballots to be hand sorted which delayed results by over a week. The problem is blamed on ballot misprints by <a href="/wiki/Sequoia_Voting_Systems" title="Sequoia Voting Systems">Sequoia Voting Systems</a>. Some ballots had to be hand-copied onto other ballots before they could be counted.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A new voter ID law in <a href="/wiki/Maricopa_County,_Arizona" title="Maricopa County, Arizona">Maricopa County, Arizona</a> was subject to a lawsuit, <a href="/wiki/Purcell_v._Gonzalez" class="mw-redirect" title="Purcell v. Gonzalez">Purcell v. Gonzalez</a>, in which the Supreme Court established the <a href="/wiki/Purcell_Principle" class="mw-redirect" title="Purcell Principle">Purcell Principle</a> against changing rules very close to an election.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ramifications">Ramifications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Ramifications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many political analysts concluded that the results of the election were based around President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>'s policies in the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Iraq">War in Iraq</a> and corruption in Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At a press conference given to address the election results, President Bush called the cumulative results of the election a "thumpin'" by the Democrats.<sup id="cite_ref-Thumping_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thumping-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Democratic_agenda">Democratic agenda</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Democratic agenda"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Democrats promised an agenda that included raising the <a href="/wiki/Minimum_wage" title="Minimum wage">minimum wage</a>, implementing all of the <a href="/wiki/9/11_Commission" title="9/11 Commission">9/11 Commission</a> recommendations, eliminating subsidies for oil companies, restricting lobbyists, repealing tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, lowering interest rates on <a href="/wiki/Student_loan" title="Student loan">college loans</a>, expanding <a href="/wiki/Stem-cell_research" class="mw-redirect" title="Stem-cell research">stem-cell research</a>, investigating political appointees for actions taken during and leading to the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">war in Iraq</a>, allowing current tax cuts to expire,<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and negotiating <a href="/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)" title="Medicare (United States)">Medicare</a> prescription drug prices. They planned to legislate these issues within their first 100 legislative hours of power in January 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Brian Wright, president of Democrasource, LLC (an Ohio-based national political consulting group), "There's no question, the administration and Iraq set the tone for this year. This new balance of power can be a true catalyst to get the country back on track." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Six-point_plan">Six-point plan</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Six-point plan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Prior to the election in July 2006 Democrats unveiled a six-point plan they promised to enact if elected with congressional majorities. The plan was billed the "Six for 06 agenda" and officially called "A New Direction For America"<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and compared to the 1994 Republican "<a href="/wiki/Contract_with_America" title="Contract with America">Contract with America</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The six-points of the plan include: "honest leadership and open government, real security, energy independence, economic prosperity and educational excellence, a healthcare system that works for everyone, and retirement security".<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Real security <ul><li>In regards to "real security" they propose a "<a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Iraq_(2007%E2%80%932011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq (2007–2011)">phased redeployment</a>" of U.S. forces from Iraq, doubling the size of U.S. military <a href="/wiki/United_States_Special_Operations_Forces#Counter-Terrorist_Units" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Special Operations Forces">special forces</a> to capture <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a> and destroy terrorist groups such as <a href="/wiki/Al_Qaeda" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Qaeda">al Qaeda</a>, and implementing the 9/11 Commission proposals to secure the national borders of the United States and screen every container arriving at U.S. ports.</li></ul></li> <li>Economic prosperity and educational excellence <ul><li>Democratic plans for economic prosperity include ending the congressional pay raise until the federal <a href="/wiki/Minimum_wage" title="Minimum wage">minimum wage</a> is raised and withholding tax breaks from U.S. companies that <a href="/wiki/Outsourcing" title="Outsourcing">outsource</a> jobs to foreign countries. Within education they plan to cut college loan rates, expand federal <a href="/wiki/Pell_grant" class="mw-redirect" title="Pell grant">grants</a>, and ensure that funds used for college tuition are not taxed.</li></ul></li> <li>Energy independence <ul><li>The Democratic plan for achieving an end to American dependence on foreign countries for <a href="/wiki/Oil" title="Oil">oil</a> consists of repealing tax incentives given to oil companies, higher penalties for <a href="/wiki/Price_gouging" title="Price gouging">price gouging</a> gasoline products, increasing tax incentives and funding for the research and development of technologies intended to improve fuel-efficiency and creating viable alternative fuel supplies such as <a href="/wiki/Biofuels" class="mw-redirect" title="Biofuels">biofuels</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Domestic">Domestic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Domestic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Donald_Rumsfeld">Donald Rumsfeld</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Donald Rumsfeld"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With apparent reference to the impact of the Iraq war policy, in a press conference held on November 8, Bush talked about the election and announced the resignation of <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense">Secretary of Defense</a> <a href="/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld">Donald Rumsfeld</a>. Bush stated, "I know there's a lot of speculation on what the election means for the battle we're waging in Iraq. I recognize that many Americans voted last night to register their displeasure with the lack of progress being made there." Prior to the election, Bush had stated that he intended to keep Rumsfeld on as Secretary of Defense until the end of his presidency. However, Bush then went on to add Rumsfeld's resignation was not due to the Democratic victories on November 8. Rumsfeld's job reportedly had been on the line for several months prior to the election, and the decision for him to stay until after the election, if he was going to be let go at all, was also reportedly made several months earlier. All this led to his resignation.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Republican_leadership">Republican leadership</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Republican leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the same day, then <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a>, Representative <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Hastert" title="Dennis Hastert">Dennis Hastert</a> of the 14th Congressional District of <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, said he would not seek the <a href="/wiki/Minority_Leader" class="mw-redirect" title="Minority Leader">Minority Leader</a> position for the <a href="/wiki/110th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="110th Congress">110th Congress</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Voting_trends">Voting trends</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Voting trends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the aftermath of the election <i><a href="/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard" title="The Weekly Standard">The Weekly Standard</a></i> published a number of articles highly critical of how the Republican Party had managed the United States Congress. It called the electoral defeat for the G.O.P. "only a little short" of "devastating" saying the "party of reform ... didn't reform anything" and warned that the Democratic Party has expanded its "geographical sphere of Democratic power" to formerly Republican-held states such as Montana, Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, while it solidified former swing states like <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> as Democratic strongholds. In the New England region, popular Republican Senator <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Chafee" title="Lincoln Chafee">Lincoln Chafee</a> of <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> was defeated, despite having approval ratings near 60% and Republicans now only control a single district, the CT-04 seat held by <a href="/wiki/Chris_Shays" title="Chris Shays">Chris Shays</a>, out of 22 congressional districts. The Democrats also became the clear majority in the <a href="/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_states" class="mw-redirect" title="Mid-Atlantic states">Mid Atlantic</a> region as well. Two Republican incumbent Congressmen were defeated in <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> state and the Democrats picked up a Republican open seat, all from Republican regions upstate, and four Republican Congressmen were defeated in <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>. Democrats picked up seats in all Northeastern state legislatures holding elections, except <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>, which remained unchanged (and Democrats clearly in the majority), winning a <a href="/wiki/Supermajority" title="Supermajority">supermajority</a> in both the Connecticut House and Senate, and winning both houses of the New Hampshire legislature for the first time since 1874. Democrats kept both vulnerable Senate seats in <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, winning them by wider margins than predicted, and they won the heavily contested Senate seats in <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a> and <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>. </p><p>The Democratic expansion into Indiana, Virginia and Ohio has "seriously diminished the chances for future Republican success" it claimed. The paper, which has been described as the "quasi-official organ of the Bush Administration"<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also stated that more people would have to "bendover" to get anywhere in a political office and has called on Republicans to move to the center for the sake of the party's future viability saying "conservatives won't want to hear this, but the Republican who maneuvered his way into the most impressive victory ... won ... after moving to the center" and that "the South is not enough space to build a national governing majority".<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International">International</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: International"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Asia">Asia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/China" title="China"><img alt="China" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> The government of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a> was said to be nervous about the effect a Democratic-led Congress might have on its exports to the United States market and the possible controversy that could result because of the country's <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a> record. <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a>, who became the Speaker of the House, is a noted critic of Chinese policy. Concerns likely to be raised include the <a href="/wiki/Renminbi" title="Renminbi">undervalued Chinese currency</a>, blamed by some for the recent losses in the American manufacturing industry, and issues such as <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship" title="Internet censorship">internet censorship</a>, <a href="/wiki/Piracy" title="Piracy">piracy</a>, limited market access within China itself for companies based in the U.S., and <a href="/wiki/Religious_freedom" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious freedom">religious freedom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China">Chinese Foreign Ministry</a> spokeswoman Jiang Yu stated that she hoped the United States would play a "constructive role" in maintaining "sound, healthy and stable relations between China and the U.S.".<sup id="cite_ref-International_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-International-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Europe">Europe</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium"><img alt="Belgium" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgian</a> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Defence">Minister of Defence</a> <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Flahaut" title="André Flahaut">André Flahaut</a> expressed his approval of Rumsfeld's resignation. He said Rumsfeld was "obstinate", and he hoped that the elections would bring upon a change in the United States' foreign policy.<sup id="cite_ref-International_82-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-International-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark"><img alt="Denmark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Denmark" title="Prime Minister of Denmark">Danish Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Anders_Fogh_Rasmussen" title="Anders Fogh Rasmussen">Anders Fogh Rasmussen</a> said he hoped that President Bush and the newly elected Congress could find common ground and resolve issues regarding the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)">War in Afghanistan</a> and the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Iraq">War in Iraq</a>. Rasmussen also said Denmark would keep its troops in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> and neither the election nor the resignation of <a href="/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld">Donald Rumsfeld</a> would change government foreign policies.<sup id="cite_ref-International_82-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-International-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> France's <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Defence (France)">Minister of Defence</a> <a href="/wiki/Michele_Alliot-Marie" class="mw-redirect" title="Michele Alliot-Marie">Michele Alliot-Marie</a> said that her American counterpart, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld">Donald Rumsfeld</a>, had "taken the consequences" of an election in which voters punished the government over the war in Iraq.<sup id="cite_ref-International_82-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-International-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The former <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_(France)" title="Socialist Party (France)">Socialist</a> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_France" title="Prime Minister of France">Prime Minister of France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laurent_Fabius" title="Laurent Fabius">Laurent Fabius</a>, was quoted as saying, ""A lot of Americans have realised that Mr. Bush has lied to them."<sup id="cite_ref-Europe_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Europe-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"><img alt="Germany" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> The German <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Office_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign Office (Germany)">Foreign Office</a>'s coordinator for German-American cooperation, Karsten D. Voigt, said that he believed that the Democratic-controlled Congress will be more cooperative with the world, but he expects that Europeans will have to carry more influence on such foreign issues of importance, such as the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan, and the nuclear weapon programs of <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>. Voigt further stated that Europe needed to develop a stronger relationship with the United States, especially with newly elected Congressional politicians. Voigt went on to say that doing so would help "better convey European positions on major international issues and make concerted efforts to find constructive political solutions for the future."<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom"><img alt="United Kingdom" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">Member of Parliament</a> <a href="/wiki/John_McDonnell_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="John McDonnell (politician)">John McDonnell</a>, a critic of United Kingdom <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a>, said, "the message of the American people is clear – there needs to be a major change of direction in Iraq. Just as in Britain, people in the U.S. feel that they have been ill advised, misled and ignored."<sup id="cite_ref-Europe_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Europe-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McDonnell, who became the first Labour Party MP to announce that he would stand for <a href="/wiki/2007_Labour_Party_leadership_election_(UK)" title="2007 Labour Party leadership election (UK)">leadership</a> in 2007, also said, "These election results have not only damaged Bush, they mean that Blair is now totally isolated in the international community."<sup id="cite_ref-Europe_83-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Europe-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Italy" title="Prime Minister of Italy">Prime Minister of Italy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romano_Prodi" title="Romano Prodi">Romano Prodi</a>, believed that it was <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">Bush's</a> Iraq policy that had led to the complete turnover in the elections. He said that Bush would "have to negotiate with the opposition on all issues."<sup id="cite_ref-Europe_83-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Europe-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain"><img alt="Spain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> The ruling <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Socialist_Workers%27_Party" title="Spanish Socialist Workers' Party">Spanish Socialist Workers' Party</a> responded to the elections stating that they hoped the elections "would help to change the course of U.S. foreign policy."<sup id="cite_ref-Europe_83-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Europe-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Middle_East">Middle East</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Middle East"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran"><img alt="Iran" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Iran" title="Supreme Leader of Iran">Iran's Supreme Leader</a> Ayatollah <a href="/wiki/Ali_Khamenei" title="Ali Khamenei">Ali Khamenei</a> on Friday called U.S. President George W. Bush's defeat in congressional elections a victory for Iran. "This issue (the elections) is not a purely domestic issue for America, but it is the defeat of Bush's hawkish policies in the world", Khamenei said in remarks reported by <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>'s student news agency ISNA on Friday. "Since Washington's hostile and hawkish policies have always been against the Iranian nation, this defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation." "The result of this election indicates that the majority of American people are dissatisfied and are fed up with the policies of the American administration", the IRNA state news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li>In a letter to the American people released on Wednesday, November 29, 2006, via Iran's Permanent Mission to the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> in New York City, <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad" title="Mahmoud Ahmadinejad">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</a> wrote:</li></ul></li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I'd also like to say a word to the winners of the recent elections in the U.S. : </p><p>The United States has had many administrations; some who have left a positive legacy, and others that are neither remembered fondly by the American people nor by other nations. </p><p>Now that you control an important branch of the U.S. Government, you will also be held to account by the people and by history. </p><p> If the U.S. Government meets the current domestic and external challenges with an approach based on truth and Justice, it can remedy some of the past afflictions and alleviate some of the global resentment and hatred of America . But if the approach remains the same, it would not be unexpected that the American people would similarly reject the new electoral winners, although the recent elections, rather than reflecting a victory, in reality point to the failure of the current administration's policies. These issues had been extensively dealt with in my <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad%27s_letter_to_George_W._Bush" title="Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to George W. Bush">letter to President Bush earlier this year</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ID-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ID_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ID_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ID_19-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ID_19-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ID_19-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ID_19-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> The Independents caucused with Democrats.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In <a href="#Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Lieberman" title="Joe Lieberman">Joe Lieberman</a> lost renomination for another term, <a href="/wiki/Ned_Lamont" title="Ned Lamont">Ned Lamont</a> became the party's new nominee. Therefore, Lieberman ran as an <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_for_Lieberman" title="Connecticut for Lieberman">Independent</a> candidate.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWolf2006" class="citation news cs1">Wolf, Richard (December 7, 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081012212019/http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-12-07-gop-1994-2006_x.htm">"Republicans of '94 revolution reflect on '06"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/USA_Today" title="USA Today">USA Today</a></i>. 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Bush and the American People: The 2006 Election and Beyond</i> (Longman Publishing Group, 2008)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 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<li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Texas" title="2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas">Texas</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Texas%27s_22nd_congressional_district_elections" title="2006 Texas's 22nd congressional district elections">22nd and 22nd sp</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Utah" title="2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah">Utah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_election_in_Vermont" title="2006 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont">Vermont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Virginia" title="2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia">Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Washington" title="2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_West_Virginia" title="2006 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia">West Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Wisconsin" title="2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_election_in_Wyoming" title="2006 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming">Wyoming</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_gubernatorial_elections" title="2006 United States gubernatorial elections">Governors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Alabama_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Alabama gubernatorial election">Alabama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Alaska_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Alaska gubernatorial election">Alaska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Arizona_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Arizona gubernatorial election">Arizona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Arkansas_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Arkansas gubernatorial election">Arkansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_California_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 California gubernatorial election">California</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_California_lieutenant_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 California lieutenant gubernatorial election">Lt. Gov</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Colorado_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Colorado gubernatorial election">Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Connecticut gubernatorial election">Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Washington,_D.C.,_mayoral_election" title="2006 Washington, D.C., mayoral election">District of Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Florida_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Florida gubernatorial election">Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Georgia_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Georgia gubernatorial election">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Hawaii_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Hawaii gubernatorial election">Hawaii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Idaho_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Idaho gubernatorial election">Idaho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Illinois_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Illinois gubernatorial election">Illinois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Iowa_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Iowa gubernatorial election">Iowa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Kansas_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Kansas gubernatorial election">Kansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Maine_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Maine gubernatorial election">Maine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Maryland_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Maryland gubernatorial election">Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial election">Massachusetts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Michigan_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Michigan gubernatorial election">Michigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Minnesota_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Minnesota gubernatorial election">Minnesota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Nebraska_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Nebraska gubernatorial election">Nebraska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Nevada_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Nevada gubernatorial election">Nevada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_New_Hampshire_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 New Hampshire gubernatorial election">New Hampshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_New_Mexico_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 New Mexico gubernatorial election">New Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_New_York_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 New York gubernatorial election">New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Ohio_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Ohio gubernatorial election">Ohio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Oklahoma_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Oklahoma gubernatorial election">Oklahoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Oregon_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Oregon gubernatorial election">Oregon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Pennsylvania_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election">Pennsylvania</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Pennsylvania_lieutenant_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Pennsylvania lieutenant gubernatorial election">Lt. Gov</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Rhode_Island_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Rhode Island gubernatorial election">Rhode Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_South_Carolina_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 South Carolina gubernatorial election">South Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_South_Dakota_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 South Dakota gubernatorial election">South Dakota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Tennessee_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Tennessee gubernatorial election">Tennessee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Texas gubernatorial election">Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Vermont_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Vermont gubernatorial election">Vermont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Wisconsin_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Wisconsin gubernatorial election">Wisconsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Wyoming_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Wyoming gubernatorial election">Wyoming</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:2006_United_States_Attorney_General_elections" title="Category:2006 United States Attorney General elections">State Attorneys General</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_California_Attorney_General_election" title="2006 California Attorney General election">California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Florida_Attorney_General_election" title="2006 Florida Attorney General election">Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Maryland_Attorney_General_election" title="2006 Maryland Attorney General election">Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Michigan_Attorney_General_election" title="2006 Michigan Attorney General election">Michigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Minnesota_Attorney_General_election" title="2006 Minnesota Attorney General election">Minnesota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_New_York_Attorney_General_election" title="2006 New York Attorney General election">New York</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">State officials</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>California <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_California_Insurance_Commissioner_election" title="2006 California Insurance Commissioner election">Insurance Commissioner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_California_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2006 California Secretary of State election">Secretary of State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_California_State_Controller_election" title="2006 California State Controller election">Controller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_California_State_Treasurer_election" title="2006 California State Treasurer election">Treasurer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_California_Superintendent_of_Public_Instruction_election" title="2006 California Superintendent of Public Instruction election">Superintendent of Public Instruction</a></li></ul></li> <li>Florida <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Florida_Chief_Financial_Officer_election" title="2006 Florida Chief Financial Officer election">Chief Financial Officer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Florida_Commissioner_of_Agriculture_election" title="2006 Florida Commissioner of Agriculture election">Commissioner of Agriculture</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Maryland_Comptroller_election" title="2006 Maryland Comptroller election">Maryland Comptroller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Michigan_Secretary_of_State_election" title="2006 Michigan Secretary of State election">Michigan Secretary of State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Minnesota_State_Auditor_election" title="2006 Minnesota State Auditor election">Minnesota Auditor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_New_York_State_Comptroller_election" title="2006 New York State Comptroller election">New York Comptroller</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_state_legislative_elections" title="2006 United States state legislative elections">State <br />legislatures</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Arizona_State_Legislature_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Arizona State Legislature election">Arizona</a></li> <li>California <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_California_State_Assembly_election" title="2006 California State Assembly election">Assembly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_California_State_Senate_election" title="2006 California State Senate election">Senate</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Connecticut_State_Senate_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Connecticut State Senate election">Connecticut Senate</a></li> <li>Delaware <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Delaware_House_of_Representatives_election" title="2006 Delaware House of Representatives election">House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Delaware_Senate_election" title="2006 Delaware Senate election">Senate</a></li></ul></li> <li>Iowa <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Iowa_House_of_Representatives_election" title="2006 Iowa House of Representatives election">House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Iowa_Senate_election" title="2006 Iowa Senate election">Senate</a></li></ul></li> <li>Maryland <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Maryland_House_of_Delegates_election" title="2006 Maryland House of Delegates election">House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Maryland_Senate_election" title="2006 Maryland Senate election">Senate</a></li></ul></li> <li>Massachusetts <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Massachusetts_House_of_Representatives_election" title="2006 Massachusetts House of Representatives election">House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Massachusetts_Senate_election" title="2006 Massachusetts Senate election">Senate</a></li></ul></li> <li>Michigan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Michigan_House_of_Representatives_election" title="2006 Michigan House of Representatives election">House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Michigan_Senate_election" title="2006 Michigan Senate election">Senate</a></li></ul></li> <li>Minnesota <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Minnesota_House_of_Representatives_election" title="2006 Minnesota House of Representatives election">House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Minnesota_Senate_election" title="2006 Minnesota Senate election">Senate</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Montana_House_of_Representatives_election" title="2006 Montana House of Representatives election">Montana House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_New_Mexico_House_of_Representatives_election" title="2006 New Mexico House of Representatives election">New Mexico House</a></li> <li>North Carolina <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_North_Carolina_House_of_Representatives_election" title="2006 North Carolina House of Representatives election">House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_North_Carolina_Senate_election" title="2006 North Carolina Senate election">Senate</a></li></ul></li> <li>Pennsylvania <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Pennsylvania_House_of_Representatives_election" title="2006 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election">House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Pennsylvania_Senate_election" title="2006 Pennsylvania Senate election">Senate</a></li></ul></li> <li>Texas <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Texas_House_of_Representatives_election" title="2006 Texas House of Representatives election">House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Texas_Senate_election" title="2006 Texas Senate election">Senate</a></li></ul></li> <li>Wyoming <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Wyoming_Senate_election" title="2006 Wyoming Senate election">Senate</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:2006_United_States_mayoral_elections" title="Category:2006 United States mayoral elections">Mayors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Anaheim_mayoral_election" title="2006 Anaheim mayoral election">Anaheim, <abbr title="California">CA</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Anchorage_mayoral_election" title="2006 Anchorage mayoral election">Anchorage, <abbr title="Alaska">AK</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Austin_mayoral_election" title="2006 Austin mayoral election">Austin, <abbr title="Texas">TX</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Fort_Lauderdale_mayoral_election" title="2006 Fort Lauderdale mayoral election">Fort Lauderdale, <abbr title="Florida">FL</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Irvine_mayoral_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Irvine mayoral election">Irvine, <abbr title="California">CA</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Long_Beach,_California_mayoral_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Long Beach, California mayoral election">Long Beach, <abbr title="California">CA</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Newark_mayoral_election" title="2006 Newark mayoral election">Newark, <abbr title="New Jersey">NJ</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_New_Orleans_mayoral_election" title="2006 New Orleans mayoral election">New Orleans, <abbr title="Louisiana">LA</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Richmond,_California_municipal_elections" title="2006 Richmond, California municipal elections">Richmond, <abbr title="California">CA</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_San_Bernardino_mayoral_election" title="2005–06 San Bernardino mayoral election">San Bernardino, <abbr title="California">CA</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_San_Jose_mayoral_election" title="2006 San Jose mayoral election">San Jose, <abbr title="California">CA</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Norfolk_mayoral_election" title="2006 Norfolk mayoral election">Norfolk, <abbr title="Virginia">VA</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Oakland_mayoral_election" title="2006 Oakland mayoral election">Oakland, <abbr title="California">CA</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Providence,_Rhode_Island_mayoral_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Providence, Rhode Island mayoral election">Providence, <abbr title="Rhode Island">RI</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayoral_elections_in_Santa_Ana,_California#2006" title="Mayoral elections in Santa Ana, California">Santa Ana, CA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Tallahassee_mayoral_election" title="2006 Tallahassee mayoral election">Tallahassee, <abbr title="Florida">FL</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Tulsa_mayoral_election" title="2006 Tulsa mayoral election">Tulsa, <abbr title="Oklahoma">OK</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Washington,_D.C.,_mayoral_election" title="2006 Washington, D.C., mayoral election">Washington, DC</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">States</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Alabama</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Alaska_state_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Alaska state elections">Alaska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Arizona_elections" title="2006 Arizona elections">Arizona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Arkansas_state_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Arkansas state elections">Arkansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_California_elections" title="2006 California elections">California</a></li> <li>Colorado</li> <li>Connecticut</li> <li>Delaware</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Florida_state_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Florida state elections">Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Georgia_state_elections" title="2006 Georgia state elections">Georgia</a></li> <li>Hawaii</li> <li>Idaho</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Illinois_elections" title="2006 Illinois elections">Illinois</a></li> <li>Indiana</li> <li>Iowa</li> <li>Kansas</li> <li>Kentucky</li> <li>Louisiana</li> <li>Maine</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Maryland_state_elections" title="2006 Maryland state elections">Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Massachusetts_elections" title="2006 Massachusetts elections">Massachusetts</a></li> <li>Michigan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Minnesota_elections" title="2006 Minnesota elections">Minnesota</a></li> <li>Mississippi</li> <li>Missouri</li> <li>Montana</li> <li>Nebraska</li> <li>Nevada</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_New_Hampshire" title="Political party strength in New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></li> <li>New Mexico</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_New_York_state_elections" title="2006 New York state elections">New York</a></li> <li>North Carolina</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_North_Dakota_state_elections" title="2006 North Dakota state elections">North Dakota</a></li> <li>Ohio</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Oklahoma_state_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Oklahoma state elections">Oklahoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Oregon_state_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Oregon state elections">Oregon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Pennsylvania_state_elections" title="2006 Pennsylvania state elections">Pennsylvania</a></li> <li>Rhode Island</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_South_Carolina_state_elections" title="2006 South Carolina state elections">South Carolina</a></li> <li>South Dakota</li> <li>Tennessee</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Texas_general_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Texas general election">Texas</a></li> <li>Utah</li> <li>Vermont</li> <li>Virginia</li> <li>Washington</li> <li>West Virginia</li> <li>Wisconsin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Wyoming_elections" title="2006 Wyoming 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title="Category:1825 elections in the United States">1825</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1826_United_States_elections" title="1826 United States elections">1826</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:1827_elections_in_the_United_States" title="Category:1827 elections in the United States">1827</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1828_United_States_elections" title="1828 United States elections">1828</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1829_United_States_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="1829 United States elections">1829</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1830_United_States_elections" title="1830 United States elections">1830</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:1831_elections_in_the_United_States" title="Category:1831 elections in the United States">1831</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1832_United_States_elections" title="1832 United States elections">1832</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:1833_elections_in_the_United_States" title="Category:1833 elections in the United States">1833</a></li> <li><a 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title="2017 United States elections">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_United_States_elections" title="2018 United States elections">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_United_States_elections" title="2019 United States elections">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_elections" title="2020 United States elections">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_United_States_elections" title="2021 United States elections">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_United_States_elections" title="2022 United States elections">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_United_States_elections" title="2023 United States elections">2023</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2024_United_States_elections" title="2024 United States elections">2024</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2025_United_States_elections" title="2025 United States elections">2025</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2026_United_States_elections" title="2026 United States elections">2026</a></i></li> <li><i><a 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