Oregon gubernatorial:
1922: Ben Olcott- Republican (Democrats are controlled by KKK)
1926: H.H. Stallard- Independent
1930: Albert Streiff- Socialist1934: Harry Correll- Independent (protest vote)
1938: Henry Hess- Democrat1942: Lew Wallace- Democrat1946: Carl Donaugh- Democrat1948: Lew Wallace- Democrat1950: Austin Flegel- Democrat1954: Paul Patterson- Republican (Dem is anti-New Deal, Patterson is the reason Oregon doesn't have a sales tax)
1956: Robert Holmes- Democrat1958: Robert Holmes- Democrat1962: Robert Thornton- Democrat1966: Robert Straub- Democrat
1970: Robert Straub- Democrat
1974: Robert Straub- Democrat1978: Robert Straub- Democrat
1982: Ted Kulongoski- Democrat1986: Neil Goldschmidt- Democrat (would've written in a random candidate with hindsight)
1990: Barbara Roberts- Democrat1994: John Kitzhaber- Democrat1998: Trey Smith- Socialist (literally the first socialist candidate since 1930)
2002: Ted Kulongoski- Democrat2006: Ted Kulongoski- Democrat2010: John Kitzhaber- Democrat2014: Jason Levin- Pacific Green2016: Kate Brown- Democrat, most likely
Oregon Senate:
I'm proud of Oregon being the first state with direct senate elections.
1912: Benjamin Ramp- Socialist1914: Benjamin Ramp- Socialist1918: Albert Slaughter- Socialist1918 (S): Martha Bean- Socialist1920: Robert Stanfield- Republican1924: F.E. Coulter- Progressive1926: Bert Haney- Democrat1930: Elton Watkins- Democrat1932: Walter Gleason- Democrat1936: Willis Mahoney- Democrat1938: Willis Mahoney- Democrat1938(S): Alexander Barry- Republican (uncontested)
1942: Walter Whitbeck- Democrat1944: Willis Mahoney- Democrat1948: Manley Wilson- Democrat1950: Wayne Morse- Republican1954: Richard Neuberger- Democrat1956: Wayne Morse- Democrat1960: Maurine Neuberger- Democrat1962: Wayne Morse- Democrat1966: Mark Hatfield- Republican Democrat is pro-Vietnam war
1968: Wayne Morse- Democrat1972: Wayne Morse- Democrat1974: Betty Roberts- Democrat1978: Mark Hatfield- Republican I have respect for Hatfield and the Dem is a nobody.
1980:Ted Kulongoski- Democrat although I really would've liked Charles Porter to win the primary, given that he was for nationalization of energy
1984: Mark Hatfield- Republican see 1978
1986: Rick Bauman- Democrat1990: Harry Lonsdale- Democrat1992: Les AuCoin- Democrat1996(S): Vickie Valdez- Socialist1996: Christopher Phelps- Socialist1998: Dean Braa- Socialist2002: Bill Bradbury- Democrat2004: Teresa Keane- Pacific Green2008: Jeff Merkley- Democrat2010: Rick Staggenborg- Progressive2014: Jeff Merkley- Democrat2016: Probably third party, I'm not big on Wyden's neoliberalism
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