The 2020 Oregon Attorney General election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the

Attorney General of Oregon The Oregon Attorney General is a statutory office within the executive branch of the state of Oregon, and serves as the chief legal officer of the state, heading its Department of Justice with its six operating divisions. The attorney general is ch ...

. Incumbent Democratic Attorney General

Ellen Rosenblum Ellen F. Rosenblum (born January 6, 1951) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the Oregon Attorney General since 2012. She is the first female state attorney general in Oregon's history, and previously was a judge on the Oregon ...

was originally appointed to the role by former

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John Kitzhaber John Albert Kitzhaber (born March 5, 1947) is an American former politician who served as the 35th governor of Oregon from 1995 to 2003, and as the 37th governor of Oregon from 2011 until his resignation in 2015. A member of the Democratic Party ...

on June 29, 2012 to finish the term of her predecessor

John Kroger John Richard Kroger (born 1966) is an American lawyer who served as the president of Reed College. He served as Oregon Attorney General, Attorney General for the U.S. state of Oregon from 2009 to 2012. Prior to being elected in 2008, he had earl ...

, who resigned from office. She was elected to a full term in 2012 and re-elected in 2016. This office is not subject to term limits, and Rosenblum won a third full term, defeating

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activist Michael Cross who led an unsuccessful 2019 attempt to recall Governor

Kate Brown Katherine Brown (born June 21, 1960) is an American politician and attorney serving as the 38th governor of Oregon since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she served three terms as the state representative from the 13th district of the O ...

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

, incumbent Attorney General

Results

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

* Michael Cross, software designer and leader of an unsuccessful attempt to

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in 2019

Withdrawn

* Daniel Zene Crowe, lawyer and Republican nominee for Attorney General in 2016 ''(withdrew candidacy effective March 13, 2020)''

Results

General election

Predictions

Results

By congressional district

Rosenblum won 4 of 5 congressional districts.

References

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Oregon Attorney General elections