2,661,789 1,555,202 Start date November 7, 2006 | 61.7% 36.0% | |
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Winner Kay Bailey Hutchison | ||
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.
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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. [1] 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 [2], although they had been slipping rapidly.