Florida United States Senate election, 2006
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The 2006 United States Senate election in Florida was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Bill Nelson won re-election to a second term.
The organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which monitors political corruption, complained to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) in October 2006 that the Bacardi beverage company had illegally used corporate resources in support of a fundraising event for Nelson in 2005. CREW had previously filed a similar complaint concerning a Bacardi fundraising event for Republican Senator Mel Martinez, an event that raised as much as $60,000 for Martinez's campaign. The amended complaint alleged that, on both occasions, Bacardi violated the Federal Election Campaign Act and FEC regulations by soliciting contributions from a list of the corporation’s vendors.
In a rare move, all twenty-two of Florida's daily newspapers supported Nelson, while none supported Harris in the general election.
Nelson was easily reelected as expected. Nelson won all but 10 of Florida's 67 counties. Nelson won with 60.3% of the vote winning by 1,064,421 votes or 22.2%. Nelson was projected the winner right when the polls closed at 7 P.M. EST.
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