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How Mormons Fared in Election

2 November 2004

Governors
Huntsman	R-UT	elected
-Matheson	D-UT	defeated
Romney	R-MA	not up
Senate
Bennett	R-UT	reelected
-Van Dam	D-UT	defeated
Crapo	R-ID	ran unopposed
Hatch	R-UT	not up
Reid	D-NV	reelected
Smith	R-OR	not up
House
Bishop	R-UT	reelected
-Thompson	D-UT	defeated
Cannon	R-UT	reelected
-Babka	D-UT	defeated
Doolittle	R-CA	reelected
Faleomavaega	D-AS	reelected
Flake	R-AZ	reelected
Herger	R-CA	reelected
Istook	R-OK	reelected
Kennedy	D-WI	defeated
Matheson	D-UT	reelected
-Swallow	R-UT	defeated
McKeon	R-CA	reelected
Simpson	R-ID	reelected
Udall	D-CO	reelected
Udall	D-NM	reelected
Zupancic	R-OR	defeated

 
Current question on my political mind: Given Daschle’s probable defeat, is Harry Reid now the most powerful Mormon in America?

The two Utah governor candidates were running for the first time. All congressional winners ran as incumbents.

Bryan Kennedy and Jim Zupancic appear to be the only losing LDS candidates that weren’t beaten by other Mormons, but good for them for jumping in and going up against incumbents. (UPDATE: I modified this paragraph after adding Zupancic, per Jason Knapp.)

NB: Going against my indepedent streak, I don’t include any 3rd-party candidates. None of them did well and I don’t want to make an incomplete list. Leaving them all out makes for a complete list, see?

See my similar list from two years ago. Let me know if you know about any race results that I’m missing.

Vote Now! (Comments) [6]

1. Thanks for compiling and posting this info.

   — Jeremy, 3125 days ago

2. Great list

   — David H. Sundwall, 3125 days ago

3. Jim Zupancic R (LDS, BYU grad) ran for US House in Oregon, and lost.

   — Jason Knapp, 3125 days ago

4. Thanks, Jason! I have updated my data accordingly.

   — Kevin Ashworth, 3125 days ago

5. An interesting list. However, the list is not indicative of active members of the Church. I don’t believe that either Paul Van Dam (UT) or Mark Udall (CO) are active. Udall’s political bio indicates that he is “unaffiliated”. I am both an active member of the Church and a Democrat. I am most interested in faithful, Democratic members like Harry Reid (NV), soon to be the most powerful member of the Church in Congress (Senate Minority Leader).

   — Doug, 3122 days ago

6. Doug: You are correct, this list is not indicative of what kind of Mormon these people are. For my purposes, I am not interested in how many meetings they attend and such, just whether they’re on the Church records. If they claim not to be Mormons at all or if they remove themselves from the Church records, then I become interested for the purposes of this list. I suspect, but do not know with certainty, that all of these people are “on the record,” even if non-practicing.

   — Kevin Ashworth, 3121 days ago