Statewide Races
Some 310 last-minute filings for statewide office swell ballot ranks
From our weekly issue dated March 24, 2010
More than 300 candidates for Congress, governor, the Oregon Legislature and a host of state and judicial offices attained the May 18 ballot by meeting the filing deadline Tuesday, March 9.
When the 5 p.m. deadline passed, 310 people had signed up with the Oregon Elections Division to run. For partisan offices, the May election will be a primary to select party candidates for the Nov. 2 ballot.
For non-partisan offices, most candidates can win elections with a majority of the vote in May. Minor parties have until Aug. 24 to place candidates on the ballot.
In a familiar Oregon ritual dating back many decades, more than 100 lawmakers, elections workers and onlookers gathered in the House chamber to watch candidate names attached to four large white boards hanging from the gallery.
It was a low-tech procedure for what has become a high-tech process; candidates have long been able to file for office online, but the shared, non-partisan experience of filing deadline day has kept the tradition alive on the House floor.
The candidate filing period opened on Sept. 10, when the first 29 candidates filed; while on Tuesday, six months later, the last 23 filed.
The Elections Division accepted filings for one U.S. Senate seat, five U.S. House seats, governor, treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, 15 Oregon Senate seats, 60 Oregon House seats, two Supreme Court seats, three seats on the Oregon Court of Appeals, 12 district attorney positions, and numerous county judgeships.
Here is a look at the May 18 election ballot.
- The race for governor showed 13 candidates, four Democrats and nine Republicans.
- A total of 10 candidates filed to run for U.S. Senate, seven Republicans and three Democrats.
- In the race for the remaining two years of the state treasurer“s term, four candidates filed to run, three Democrats and one Republican.
- Partisan primaries will be held in 15 legislative districts, 10 involving Republicans and five involving Democrats.
- In five Oregon Senate districts and two Oregon House districts, candidates had no opposition in either the primary or general election.
Candidates for city council, county commissioner and other local offices filed with their county elections office.
Visit https://secure.sos.state.or.us/eim/cfFilings.do
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