2005 United States gubernatorial elections

none January 2025 related races 2005 United States elections 2005 United States gubernatorial elections United States legislative no 2004 United States gubernatorial elections 2004 2006 United States gubernatorial elections 2006 2001 United States gubernatorial elections 2001 2009 United States gubernatorial elections 2009 3 governorships2 states; 1 territory November 8, 2005 Seats up Seats won Republican Party (United States) 28 28 1,897,598 44.4% 0 0 Democratic Party (United States) 22 22 2,250,493 52.66% 2 2 320px Map of the results#93C5DE Democratic hold #00C000 Covenant gain#D0D0D0 No election United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 8, 2005, in the states of New Jersey and Virginia as well as in the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Shortly before election day, U.S. president George W. Bush returned from a trip to Latin America to provide last-minute campaigning for Virginian gubernatorial candidate Jerry W. Kilgore. After the defeat of Kilgore and Doug Forrester in New Jersey, Democrats ascribed these victories to the President's decreasing popularity. Republicans then tried to downplay these Democratic triumphs as victories exclusive to those states and their candidates. Some speculate that these two elections were harbingers of the positive momentum around the Democratic Party, and it could be said that they had some positive effect on the landmark victories in the 2006 midterm elections and the 2008 presidential election for the party. Republicans, however, maintain that the Democrats' advantage in 2005 was due simply to the fact that they were the incumbent party. This was the first election since 1987 that no seats switched parties in a gubernatorial election and the first time this occurred in this cycle of governorships since 1985. Election predictions Several sites and individuals publish predictions of competitive seats. These predictions look at factors such as the strength of the incumbent (if the incumbent is running for re-election), the strength of the candidates, and the partisan leanings of the state (reflected in part by the state's Cook Partisan Voting Index rating). The predictions assign ratings to each state, with the rating indicating the predicted advantage that a party has in winning that seat. Most election predictors use: "tossup": no advantage "tilt" (used by some predictors): advantage that is not quite as strong as "lean" "lean": slight advantage "likely": significant, but surmountable, advantage "safe" or "solid": near-certain chance of victory +State IncumbentParentheses around an incumbent's name indicates that the incumbent is retiring, possibly due to term limits.LastraceSabato's Crystal BallOct 25,2005The 2005 Off-Off-Year Elections: Hardfast Harbinger or Harmless Happenstance? Sabato's Crystal Ball https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/ljs2005102501/ Result New Jersey Richard Codey (retired) 56.43% D |Likely D Corzine53.47% D Virginia Mark Warner (term-limited) 52.16% D |Tossup Kaine 51.72% D Race summary States State Incumbent Party Firstelected Result Candidates New Jersey Richard Codey Democratic 2004Codey took office after his predecessor (Jim McGreevey) resigned. Incumbent retired.New governor elected.Democratic hold. Democratic Party (US) Jon Corzine (Democratic) 53.5% Republican Party (US)Doug Forrester (Republican) 43.0% Independent (US)Hector Castillo (Independent) 1.3% Virginia Mark Warner Democratic 2001 Incumbent term-limited.New governor elected.Democratic hold. Democratic Party (US) Tim Kaine (Democratic) 51.7% Republican Party (US)Jerry Kilgore (Republican) 46.0% Independent (US)Russ Potts (Independent) 2.2% Territory Territory Incumbent Party Firstelected Result Candidates Northern Mariana Islands Juan Babauta Republican 2001 Incumbent lost re-election.New governor elected.Covenant gain. Covenant Party (Northern Mariana Islands) Benigno Fitial (Covenant) 28.0% Independent (US)Heinz Hofschneider (Independent) 27.3% Republican Party (US)Juan Babauta (Republican) 26.6% Democratic Party (US)Froilan Tenorio (Democratic) 18.1% Closest races States where the margin of victory was under 1%: Northern Mariana Islands, 0.6% States where the margin of victory was under 10%: Virginia, 5.7% Virginia 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election Virginia presidential no 2001 Virginia gubernatorial election 2001 2009 Virginia gubernatorial election 2009 November 8, 2005 45.0% 1.4 http://elections.virginia.gov/resultsreports/registration-statistics/registrationturnout-statistics/ Registration/Turnout Statistics The Commonwealth of Virginia Virginia Department of Elections 2016 July 25, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160816110827/http://elections.virginia.gov/resultsreports/registration-statistics/registrationturnout-statistics/ August 16, 2016 dead x145px Tim Kaine Democratic Party (United States) 1,025,942 51.7% x145px Jerry Kilgore Republican Party (United States) 912,327 46.0% 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 300px County and independent city resultsKaine: #a5b0ff 40–50% #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90%Kilgore: #ffb2b2 40–50% #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% Governor Mark Warner Democratic Party (United States) Tim Kaine Democratic Party (United States) The 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2005, to elect the governor of Virginia. The Democratic nominee, Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine, the son-in-law to Linwood Holton, won the election. Virginia is the only state in the United States to prohibit governors from serving successive terms, meaning that the popular incumbent, Mark Warner, could not run for reelection. While the previous Democratic governor, Mark Warner, was credited with doing especially well for a Democrat in rural areas of the commonwealth, Kaine's win featured surprising triumphs in traditionally Republican areas such as Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and the Northern Virginia suburbs of Prince William County and Loudoun County, as well as impressive showings in Democratic strongholds such as Richmond and Norfolk.Shear, Michael D. (October 18, 2005). "Kaine Sounds Slow-Growth Note in Exurbs". Washington Post. This is the most recent election in which a Virginia governor and lieutenant governor of opposite parties were elected. New Jersey 2005 New Jersey gubernatorial election 2005 New Jersey gubernatorial election New Jersey Presidential no 2001 New Jersey gubernatorial election 2001 2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election 2009 November 8, 2005 x150px Jon Corzine Democratic Party (United States) 1,224,551 53.5% x110px Doug Forrester Republican Party (United States) 985,271 43.0% 2005 New Jersey gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 280px County resultsCorzine: #a5b0ff 40–50% #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80%Forrester: #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% Governor Richard Codey Democratic Party (United States) Jon Corzine Democratic Party (United States) The 2005 New Jersey gubernatorial election was a race to determine the governor of New Jersey. It was held on November 8, 2005. Democratic governor Richard Codey, who replaced Governor Jim McGreevey in 2004 after his resignation, did not run for election for a full term of office. The primary election was held on June 7, 2005. U.S. senator Jon Corzine won the Democratic nomination without serious opposition. Former West Windsor Mayor Doug Forrester received the Republican nomination with a plurality of 36%. Corzine defeated Forrester in the general election. New Jersey is reliably Democratic at the federal level, but this was the first time since 1977 in which Democrats won more than one consecutive gubernatorial election in the state. This was the first time since 1965 that a Democrat won a gubernatorial race without Ocean County, and the first since 1961 that they did so without Monmouth County. The 2005 general election also saw a public referendum question on the ballot for the voters to decide whether to create a position of lieutenant governor, alter the state's order of succession, and whether the state's first lieutenant governor would be chosen in the subsequent gubernatorial election held in 2009.Mansnerus, Laura. "On Politics: The Advantage of Having A Lieutenant Governor" in The New York Times (March 27, 2005). Retrieved August 30, 2013.New Jersey State Legislature. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 2 (SCR2): "A Concurrent Resolution proposing to amend Articles II, IV, V, and XI of the Constitution of the State of New Jersey" https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054955/http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2004/Bills/SCR/2_R1.PDF 2013-09-21 (2004) and Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 100 (ACR100): "A Concurrent Resolution proposing to amend Articles II, IV, V and XI of the Constitution of the State of New Jersey" https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055139/http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2004/Bills/ACR/100_I1.PDF 2013-09-21 (2005). Retrieved 30 August 2013. Note that The New Jersey State Legislature doesn't provide distinct web addresses for its transactions on specific bills, however, at http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bills/BillView.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20130913080931/http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bills/BillView.asp 2013-09-13 click on "Bills 2004–2005" and search for ACR100 and SCR2 for these bills, vote tallies and historical information regarding their passage. The question passed by a tally of 836,134 votes (56.1%) to 655,333 (43.9%).New Jersey Division of Elections (New Jersey Department of State). "Official List Ballot Questions Tally For November 2005 General Election" https://web.archive.org/web/20131112093252/http://www.njelections.org/election-results/2005_Official_public_questions_tallies.pdf 2013-11-12 (certified 16 December 2005). Retrieved 30 August 2013. As of 2022, this is the most recent time that Salem County voted for the Democratic candidate in a gubernatorial race. Territories Northern Marina Islands Northern Mariana Islands 5 November 2005 Gubernatorial election yes presidential no 2001 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election 2001 2009 Northern Mariana Islands general election 2009 Benigno Fitial 2009.jpg Benigno Fitial Timothy Villagomez Covenant Party (Northern Mariana Islands) 3,766 27.95% 3x4.svg Heinz Hofschneider Diego Benavente Independent politician 3,682 27.33% FEMA - 7324 - Photograph by Andrea Booher taken on 12-20-2002 in Northern Mariana Islands (cropped).jpg Juan Babauta David M. Apatang Republican Party (Northern Mariana Islands) 3,584 26.60% 3x4.svg Froilan Tenorio Antonio Santos Democratic Party (Northern Mariana Islands) 2,440 18.11% Governor Juan Babauta Republican Party (Northern Mariana Islands) Benigno Fitial Covenant Party (Northern Mariana Islands) House election yes 2003 2007 All 18 seats in the House of Representatives 9 yes yes yes Covenant Party (Northern Mariana Islands) 7 Republican Party (Northern Mariana Islands) 7 Democratic Party (Northern Mariana Islands) 2 Independents 2 Senate election yes 2003 2007 All 9 seats in the Senate 5 yes yes yes Covenant Party (Northern Mariana Islands) 3 Republican Party (Northern Mariana Islands) 3 Democratic Party (Northern Mariana Islands) 2 Independents 1 Notes References External links Official NJ general election results See also