The 2006 United States Senate election in Utah was held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Republican
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatch (March 22, 1934 – April 23, 2022) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah from 1977 to 2019. Hatch's 42-year Senate tenure made him the longest-serving Republican U.S. senat ...
won re-election to a sixth term. Hatch won all but one county with 60% to 70% of the vote. Ashdown won only
Summit County by 342 votes.
Major candidates
The filing deadline for major party candidates was March 17, 2006.
Democratic
* Pete Ashdown, the founder and
CEO
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CEOs find roles in variou ...
of Utah's oldest
Internet service provider
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,
XMission.
Republican
*
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatch (March 22, 1934 – April 23, 2022) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah from 1977 to 2019. Hatch's 42-year Senate tenure made him the longest-serving Republican U.S. senat ...
, incumbent U.S. Senator first elected in 1976
General election
Polling
Predictions
Results
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
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Summit
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(largest municipality:
Park City)
See also
*
2006 United States Senate elections
The 2006 United States Senate elections were held on November 7, 2006, with all 33 Classes of United States senators, Class 1 Senate seats being contested. The term of office for those elected in 2006 ran from January 3, 2007, to January 3, 2013. ...
References
External links
Pete Ashdown for United States SenateScott Bradley for SenateThe Official Orrin Hatch campaign siteJoe Labonte's websiteRoger I. Price's websiteLibertarian Dave Starr Seely's website
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Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
2006 Utah elections