United States Senate election in Texas, 2006

United States Senate election in Texas, 2006

November 7, 2006

Nominee Kay Bailey Hutchison Barbara Ann Radnofsky Party Republican Democratic Popular vote 2,661,789 1,555,202 Percentage 61.7% 36.0%

County results

U.S. Senator before election Kay Bailey Hutchison Republican Elected U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Republican

The 2006 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison won re-election to a third term.

Major candidates

Democratic

• Barbara Ann Radnofsky, attorney

Republican

• Kay Bailey Hutchison, incumbent U.S. Senator

Campaign

The Democrat nominee who had never run for public office and was expected to face an uphill battle in the general election, especially in a state that has not elected a Democrat statewide since 1994 and against a historically popular Hutchison. Since neither Radnofsky nor her main opponent, Gene Kelly, had received a majority of votes in the Democratic primary, a runoff was held on April 11, 2006, which Radnofsky won. Radnofsky's campaign platform is available on her website. Scott Lanier Jameson won the Libertarian Party nomination at the party's state convention on June 10, 2006, defeating Timothy Wade and Ray Salinas. Arthur W. Loux, a Roman Forest City Councilman and a member of the Minutemen, was running as an independent.

Hutchison co-sponsored legislation supporting the creation of a constitutional amendment that would limit terms for senators, but had been quoted saying that she would only leave after two terms if such a law applied to all senators. After deciding not to challenge Governor Rick Perry this year, as had been widely speculated, Hutchison was running for a third term.

She had no opposition in the 2006 Republican primary, and had approval ratings in the 60 percent range going into the General Election , although they had been slipping rapidly.

Polling

Source	Date	Hutchison (R)	Radnofsky (D)	Jameson (L)
Polimetrix	November 5, 2006	65%	29%
Zogby	October 25, 2006	61%	27%
Rasmussen	October 23, 2006	60%	34%
Rasmussen	August 31, 2006	58%	32%
Rasmussen	August 3, 2006	61%	31%
Rasmussen	July 13, 2006	58%	31%
Rasmussen	May 18, 2006	53%	34%
Rasmussen	January 8, 2006	64%	25%

Results

2006 United States Senate election, Texas

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Republican	Kay Bailey Hutchison (inc.)	2,661,789	61.7	-3.3
	Democratic	Barbara Ann Radnofsky	1,555,202	36.0	+3.6
	Libertarian	Scott Jameson	97,672	2.3	+1.1
Majority			1,106,587	25.7
Turnout			4,314,663
	Republican hold		Swing

External links

• Senator Hutchison's Official Page
• Barbara Radnofsky Campaign
• The Green Papers link on the Texas Midterm Election
• Scott Jameson's Campaign