• Source: 2010 Oregon gubernatorial election

      • The 2010 Oregon gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 to elect the Governor of Oregon to a four-year term beginning on January 10, 2011. The incumbent governor, Democrat Ted Kulongoski, was ineligible to run due to term limits barring him from being elected to more than two consecutive terms.
      The Democratic candidate John Kitzhaber, who had previously served two terms as governor from 1995 to 2003, was elected to a third term, earning a narrow victory over Republican candidate Chris Dudley and two minor party candidates. Kitzhaber's election marked the first time in Oregon's history that a person has been elected to a third term as governor.
      Oregon first used its new cross-nomination system, a form of fusion voting, in the 2010 general elections. In this system, a candidate for partisan public office can be nominated by up to three political parties.
      Kitzhaber was nominated by the Independent Party of Oregon in addition to the Democratic Party.
      Almost every opinion poll throughout the election season showed a statistical tie between the two, state Republicans saw this election as the best chance to win the governorship since the last Republican governor, Victor Atiyeh, was re-elected in 1982. Once polls closed on election day, Dudley had led in early vote counts, but Kitzhaber narrowly won due to wide margins in Multnomah and Lane counties. However, this remains the closest Republicans have come to winning the governorship since that election.


      Democratic primary




      = Candidates

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      John Kitzhaber, former Governor of Oregon
      Bill Bradbury, former Oregon Secretary of State
      Roger Obrist


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      Republican primary




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      Chris Dudley, former professional basketball player
      Allen Alley, businessman and deputy chief of staff to Governor Ted Kulongoski
      Clark Colvin, business executive
      William Ames Curtright
      Bob Forthan
      Darren Karr, small business owner
      John Lim, former Oregon State Senator and unsuccessful nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1998
      Bill Sizemore, 1998 Republican nominee for Governor of Oregon
      Rex O. Watkins, real estate agent


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      Independent Party primary


      Oregon first used its new cross nomination system, a form of fusion voting, in the 2010 general elections. In this system, a candidate for partisan public office can be nominated by up to three political parties.
      As a result, the Independent Party of Oregon did not file a candidate and instead chose to hold a month-long online primary in July. In doing so, it became the first political party in the United States to conduct a binding statewide primary election entirely over the Internet,
      and it was the largest nominating process ever held by an Oregon minor political party.
      Republican Chris Dudley did not apply for the Independent Party nomination by the required date, so he was not on the ballot, but he could be written in.


      = Candidates

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      John Kitzhaber, former Governor of Oregon
      Jerry Wilson, businessman
      Richard Esterman, photographer


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      General election




      = Candidates

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      Chris Dudley (Republican), former professional basketball player
      John Kitzhaber (Democratic, Independent Party of Oregon), former Governor of Oregon
      Greg Kord (Constitution), industrial piping designer
      Wes Wagner (Libertarian), systems administrator


      = Campaign

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      Following the primaries, the two leading candidates, Dudley and Kitzhaber, campaigned separately throughout the state for the summer. Despite attempts by both campaigns to arrange a debate, the candidates could only agree on a single debate on September 30. Through the end of September, the Dudley campaign had raised $5.6 million, more than twice as much as the Kitzhaber campaign.
      Throughout the last few months of the campaign, opinion polls showed a tight race with the lead apparently changing frequently. Due to the closeness of the race, President Barack Obama, for whom Oregon voted by a 16-percent margin in 2008, stumped for Kitzhaber; then headlined a rally at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland on October 20, 2010.


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      Statewide results




      County results


      Dudley won 29 of Oregon's 36 counties. Kitzhaber won seven, including Multnomah County by a 43% margin of victory.


      Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican


      Clackamas (largest city: Lake Oswego)
      Columbia (largest city: St. Helens)
      Marion (largest city: Salem)
      Tillamook (largest city: Tillamook)
      Wasco (largest city: The Dalles)


      See also


      2010 Oregon state elections
      2010 United States gubernatorial elections
      Governor of Oregon
      List of governors of Oregon


      References




      External links


      Oregon Governor Candidates at Project Vote Smart
      Campaign contributions for 2010 Oregon Governor from Follow the Money
      Oregon Governor 2010 from OurCampaigns.com
      Election 2010: Oregon Governor from Rasmussen Reports
      2010 Oregon Governor Race from Real Clear Politics
      2010 Oregon Governor's Race from CQ Politics
      Race Profile in The New York Times
      Official campaign websites (Archived)

      John Kitzhaber for Governor (D)
      Chris Dudley for Governor (R)

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