2010 United States elections
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The 2010 United States midterm elections will be held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 36 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested in this election along with 38 state and territorial governorships, many state legislatures, four territorial legislatures and numerous state and local races.
Federal elections
Congressional elections
Senate elections
The 34 seats in the United States Senate Class III are up for election. In addition, the Class II Senate seat in Delaware currently held by Ted Kaufman and the Class I Senate seat in New York currently held by Kirsten Gillibrand, will be contested in special elections resulting from Joe Biden's 2008 election as Vice President of the United States and Hillary Clinton's appointment to the Cabinet as U.S. Secretary of State and their subsequent resignations from the Senate. A special election was also held for the Class I seat in Massachusetts, as a result of the death of Ted Kennedy. The election was held on January 19, 2010, resulting in Republican state senator Scott Brown winning the seat.
House of Representatives elections
All 435 voting seats in the United States House of Representatives will be up for election. Additionally, elections will be held to select the delegates for the District of Columbia and four of the five U.S. territories. The only seat in the house not up for election is that of the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, who serves a four-year term and will next face election in 2012.
State elections
Gubernatorial elections
Thirty-six of the fifty United States governors are up for election. Elections will also be held for the governorships of two U.S. territories.
Other state-wide officer elections
In many states where if the following positions are elective offices, voters will cast votes for candidates for state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, and etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).
State legislative elections
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46 states (except Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia) will hold elections for their state legislatures.[1]
Initiatives and referenda
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Local elections
Mayoral elections
The following major American cities will hold mayoral elections in 2010.
- Columbia, South Carolina
- Lexington, Kentucky
- Long Beach, California
- Louisville, Kentucky (see Louisville mayoral election, 2010 for details)
- Newark, New Jersey
- Newport News, Virginia
- New Orleans, Louisiana (see New Orleans mayoral election, 2010 for details)
- Oakland, California
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Reno, Nevada
- San Jose, California
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Trenton, New Jersey
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Washington, D.C (see Washington, D.C. mayoral election, 2010 for details)
References
- ^ "2010 Primary Dates and Seats Up". September 23, 2009. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
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