Legislative election of the United States of America of 2006

The legislative election of semi-mandate of 2006 of the United States was held the November 7th. All the seats of the Room of the representatives and a third of the Senate of the United States of America were subjected to the vote. 36 posts of governors were also subjected to the vote at the same time, like nearly 205 local referendums and several municipal elections.

General assessment

The Democratic party gained the majority of the posts of governors and the seats of the Room of Representatives for the first time since 1994. With the Senate, the democrats lay out for the next session of 51 seats against 49 with the Républicains. It is the victory by 7000 votes of Jim Webb against the outgoing senator George Allen which made rock the senatorial majority.

The democrats also took again the control of the room of the representatives with 234 seats against 201 seats with the republicans. In 19 districts, the democratic candidate was elected with less than 5000 votes of majority (91 votes for Joe Courtney in Connecticut) on the outgoing republican candidate. These elections were also marked by the progression of the number of democrats preserving, supported or gathered in particular in the coalition of the Blue Dogs (like Heath Shuler in North Carolina), which had been selected successfully to reconquer preserving districts. Nevertheless, of the blogs progressists recall that some of the new elected officials are also since of long time of the activists progressists (in particular ms. Sea To carry to the New Hampshire and Mr. McNerney to California).

With the Senate also, this opposition between new preserving elected officials and progressists feel. Bob Casey Jr in Pennsylvania and Jim Webb in Virginia leans clearly for preserving positions (Casey is anti-abortion, Webb was minister under Reagan) reinforcing the quota of the center and preserving democrats including in particular the senators Joseph Lieberman, Robert Byrd, Kent Conrad, Tim Johnson, Mary Landrieu or Ben Nelson. However, of the democrats like Sherrod Brown in Ohio or Bernie Sanders with the Vermont (Member of the room of the representatives, elected official independent senator) were elected on populist programs with a strong component progressist.

Republican side, the unexpected defeat of the centrist senator Lincoln Chafee in the Rhode Island also reinforces the preserving current of the party, in spite of the defeat of Rick Santorum, favorite of the evangelists, beaten nevertheless by a democratic conservative Bob Casey Jr.

National plan of the democratic winners

The official program of the democratic party was summarized in six principal points: the raising of the Minimum wage, widening with the underprivileged classes of the access to the medical care (with in particular the direct negotiation of the prices of the drugs with the drug company), the fall of the rate of credit granted to the students, the lightening of the tax expenditure of the Middle-class and the reduction of the administrative costs of the small and medium-size companies.

In addition to this program, the democrats also promised to seek an approach different from the war in Iraq, to implement the recommendations of the commission of 11-September, to return on the tax reductions granted to the oil companies and gas just like the tax cuts for easiest American, to develop research on the cell-stocks (voted by the old majority but blocked by president Bush). They envisage to legislate on all these points in the first 100 hours of the beginning of their mandates in January 2007.

The election would allow that Nancy Pelosi becomes the first president of the Room of the representatives and that Harry Reid is the first chief of the majority to the Senate of Mormon confession.

With the Minnesota, Keith Ellison is the first Musulman to be elected with the Congrès of the United States.

Machines to be voted

Some engineering problems on the machines of e-votings and the intimidations in Virginia, delayed the end results. About half of the voters used systems with optical character reading and 38 percent of the touchscreen machines, which were criticized like likely to be pirated. According to the experts, the two types of machine can induce problems. These machines to be voted were in particular installation by the company Votehere, shown to be too close to president Bush and the republicans.

Results of the federal elections

The democrats gained six seats by beating the outgoing republicans of the States of Pennsylvania, of the Ohio, Rhode Island, the Missouri, the Montana, and Virginia.

In the Connecticut, the independent candidate and outgoing Democratic senator, Joseph Lieberman, beat the official candidate of the democratic party, Ned Lamont, supported by the left wing of the party.

Room of the representatives

New composition of the Room of the representatives

Senate

33 out of 100 seats of the Sénat of the United States were concerned for the election.

New composition of the senate

* senator sortant

1. Joseph Lieberman having lost the primary educations of the democratic party, it decides to be presented in the form of independent. Lieberman promised to support its original party in Sénat.

States

Governors

On 50 post of governors of the United States, 36 were subjected to renewal.

The majority of the governors have a four years mandate, while the Vermont and the New Hampshire elect their governors for a two years mandate.

Since 1994, the republican governors were most numerous. They were 28 at the time of the session 2005-2006 against 22 democratic governors.

For the next session 2006-2007, the figures will be reversed. There will be now 28 democratic governors (profit of New York, of the Arkansas, the Massachusetts, the Maryland, the Ohio, the Colorado) and 22 republican governors of which Arnold Schwarzenegger in California, re-elected easily against the democratic candidate Phil Angelides.

Referendums of popular initiative

Of the level of the Referendum S, 55% of the voters of the Wisconsin required the re-establishment of the Capital punishment (referendum which does not bind the legislator).

Seven states (Virginia, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Tennessee, South Dakota, Colorado and Idaho) voted constitutional amendments prohibiting the Homosexual marriage or of the similar civil forms of union (changing to 24 the number of States prohibiting the Homosexual marriage). With 51% of the votes, the voters of the Arizona are the first to reject such an amendment which contained a provision depriving of services one (E) boyfriend (E).

With the South Dakota, the voters rejected by 55% of the votes the quasi-total prohibition of the Avortement (except setting in danger of the life of the mother).

In Missouri, a proposal for a financing of research on the original cells was adopted of accuracy, parallel to the election with the Senate of its principal instigator, the democrat Claire McCaskill.

In 6 States, the voters adopted proposals for a raising of the Minimum wage.

In California, 55% of the voters disallowed a proposal for a tax on oil supposed to finance alternative energies.

Lastly, the Nevada and the Colorado disallowed proposals aiming at legalizing the possession of one ounce Marijuana.

Legislatures of states

References

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