United States Senate election in Utah, 2006

United States Senate election in Utah, 2006

2000 ← November 7, 2006 → 2012

Nominee Orrin Hatch Pete Ashdown Party Republican Democratic Popular vote 356,238 177,459 Percentage 62.5% 31.1%

County results

U.S. Senator before election Orrin Hatch Republican Elected U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch Republican

The 2006 United States Senate election in Utah was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch won re-election to a sixth term.

Major candidates

The filing deadline for major party candidates was March 17, 2006.

Democratic

• Pete Ashdown, the founder and CEO of Utah's oldest Internet service provider, XMission.

Republican

• Orrin Hatch, incumbent U.S. Senator first elected in 1976

Polling

Source	Date	Hatch (R)	Ashdown (D)	Bradley (C)	Hatch (DG)	Price (PC)	Seely (L)
Deseret Morning News/KSL-TV	September 30, 2006	62%	25%	1%	<1%	0%	1%
Mason-Dixon/Salt Lake Tribune	August 28, 2006	61%	27%	—	—	—	—
Deseret Morning News/KSL-TV	July 26, 2006	63%	21%	3%	<1%	<1%	1%
Mason-Dixon/Salt Lake Tribune	July 3, 2006	67%	23%	—	—	—	—

Results

General election results
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Orrin Hatch (inc.)	356,238	62.36%	-3.22%
	Democratic	Pete Ashdown	177,459	31.06%	-0.45%
	Constitution	Scott Bradley	21,526	3.77%
	Personal Choice	Roger Price	9,089	1.59%
	Libertarian	Dave Seely	4,428	0.78%	-1.35%
	Green	Julian Hatch	2,512	0.44%
Majority			178,779	31.30%	-2.77%
Turnout			571,252
	Republican hold		Swing

Hatch won all but one county with 60% to 70% of the vote. Ashdown won the remaining one county by 342 votes.

External links

• Pete Ashdown for United States Senate
• Scott Bradley for Senate
• The Official Orrin Hatch campaign site
• Joe Labonte's website
• Roger I. Price's website
• Libertarian Dave Starr Seely's website