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United States Senate election in North Dakota, 2006

United States Senate election in North Dakota, 2006
North Dakota
← 2000 November 7, 2006 2012 →
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Nominee Kent Conrad Dwight Grotberg
Party Democratic-NPL Republican
Popular vote 150,146 64,417
Percentage 68.8% 29.5%

United States Senate election in North Dakota, 2006 results by county.svg
Results by county

Conrad

  50-59%
  60-69%
  70-79%
  80-89%

U.S. Senator before election

Kent Conrad
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Kent Conrad
Democratic


Conrad

Kent Conrad
Democratic

Kent Conrad
Democratic

The 2006 United States Senate election in North Dakota was held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Dem-NPL U.S. Senator Kent Conrad won re-election to a fourth term.

Popular Republican governor John Hoeven was heavily recruited by prominent national Republicans, including Karl Rove and Dick Cheney to run against Conrad. SurveyUSA polls showed that both Conrad and Hoeven had among the highest approval ratings of any Senators and governors in the nation. A poll conducted by PMR (8/26-9/3 MoE 3.9) for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead had as result for a hypothetical matchup: Hoeven-35%, Conrad-27%, Uncommitted-38%. This poll showed voter conflict between two very popular politicians in a small state where party loyalty is often trumped by personality. In late September 2005, Hoeven formally declined. Hoeven ran for the Senate in 2010 and was elected.

Conrad won at least 53% of the vote in every county in the state.



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