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Election 2006 A-7 Green Bay Press-Gaette Wednesday, November 8, 2006 Maim bm? mm Uni ICO TQPQO The House of Representative's Republican I i i Democrat Other party Too close to call No data 523 Lessthan30 i peroentof 435 seats are closely watched for majority rule. Winner, Winner Leading seat gained race, not yet Runoff Not yet called preends reportrig NOTE Due lo redisricting Georgia arid 38.9 of precincts reporting Seattle by party Chicago osonnnnoycna Cleveland Texas. Orsinct rxxjndanes arid votirj populations try Hojse Representatives rjistivis rnay have ctiar'QKj the c'iA cxKxressiofial Wash. Detroit Pittsburgh N.D. Mont I Mass.

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Districts too small to be shown on the map are represented by squares tabled with the district's number. Wyo. Connecticut 11 S3 ST. -New York nnrsnn 1 l-. 7 Iowa Neb.

la Calif. San Francisco Bay area Utah W5. Nev. I 4 Colo. I 1 Pennsylvania tut.

Maryland i. i -i Northern Virginia Ariz. 51 IlrV. N.M. Atlanta Los Angeles ES IT I'i -J il Ml Miami Alaska Hawaii Houston DallasFort Worth Breakdown of House seats Current race for 110th Congress Democrats Uncontested: 30 MAJORITY SEAT Other Called: 0 Called: 106 Uncontested: 4 Called: 117 Republicans: 218 Democrats 201 Other 1 Vacant 4 Breakdown of 109th Congress Republicans 229 Senate races Republican Democrat Winner 'ItTTTi Leading race, not yet called No data Voters return Kohl to Senate for fourth term Other parties Too close to call Not yet called No race Runoff NH.

Vt. Mains Mas. R.I. U.S. Senator Herb Kohl (i) 709,413 Robert Lorge 302,804 Ben Glatzel 12,344 Rae Vogeler 23,022 1,546 of 3,597 precincts reporting Kohl said he didn't think his money was a determining factor, and that he ran the same kind of campaign, regardless of is Conn.

N.J. Del. Md. Kohl I 1pm. 1 I Utah Democrat tops Lorge, 2 others The Associated Press Sen.

Herb Kohl, won re-election to a fourth term Tuesday over Republican Robert Lorge of Bear Creek and two other rivals. Kohl faced only token GOP opposition from Lorge, a farmer and lawyer. Also running for the Senate seat were Green Party candidate Rae Vogeler and inde- Calif. 1 Ariz. opponent.

Norm Ornstein, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, said that money was a factor. But he said that wasn't enough to keep Republicans from challenging Kohl if they thought he was vulnerable. pendent Ben Glatzel. Kohl, a multimillionaire who owns the Milwaukee Bucks, put about $4.6 million of his own money into the race. He refuses to accept political action committee donations, and calls himself "nobody's senator but yours." Alaska N.M.

Hawaii Texas 37.1 of precincts reporting NOTE Map will si low no data it less than 30 percent of precincts leporimg 37 states put gay marriage, abortion, other issues to vote Other Called: 2 Republicans Called: 7 Breakdown of Senate seats Democrats Called: 16 Democrats 44 Breakdown of 109th Senate mill iimiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimmiii Other 1 Republicans 55 Ballot issues also include tobacco taxes, marijuana Dakota and Tennessee. Similar amendments have passed previously in all 20 states to consider them. Colorado voters had an extra option a measure that would grant domestic-partnership rights to same-sex couples. Conservatives hoped the same-sex marriage bans might increase turnout for Republicans. Democrats looked for a boost from low-income voters turning out on behalf of measures to raise the state minimum wage in six states.

The wage hike passed in Montana and Ohio; results were pending in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana and Nevada. In Missouri, a proposed amendment allowing stem cell research was a factor in the crucial Senate race there; incumbent Republican Jim Talent opposed the measure, while Democratic challenger Claire McCaskill supported it. Missouri along with Arizona, South Dakota and California had a sharp increase in tobacco taxes on its ballot. In California alone, big tobacco companies spent more than $56 million fighting a tax increase that would boost the average price of a pack of cigarettes to $6.55. Even more money a state record of $133 million was raised in the fight over California's Proposition 87, which would tax companies drilling for oil in the state.

The proposal sought to raise $4 billion to promote alternative fuels and energy-efficient vehicles. Nevada and Colorado both offered measures, trailing badly in the polls, that would legalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana by anyone 21 and older. A measure in Rhode Island would restore voting rights to felons on probation and parole. Michigan voters decided whether to bar the state government from using race and gender to determine who gets into college, who gets hired and who receives contracts. Elsewhere, land use was a hot issue, part of a backlash against a 2005 Supreme Court ruling allowing the city of New London, to buy up homes to make way for a private commercial development.

Eleven states considered eminent-domain measures barring the government from taking private property for a private use; Florida, Georgia and South Carolina approved them overwhelmingly. In four states Arizona, California, Idaho and Washington voters could require state and local authorities to compensate property owners if land-use regulations lowered the value of their property. Precincts Party of Winning of of Other State reporting open seat party Candidate vote Party Candidate vote senator Ariz. 10.5 GOP GOP J. Kyi Dem J.

Pederson GOP Calif. 0 Dem Dem D. Feinstein GOP D. Mountjoy Dem Conn. 29.8 Dem CTL J.

Lieberman Dem N. Lamont Dem Del. 99.1 Dem Dem T. Carper 70.3 GOP J. Ting 28.6 I Dem Fla.

84 I Dem Dem B. Nelson 60.8 GOP K. Harris 37.6 GOP Hawaii 0 Dem Dem D. Akaka GOP C. Thielen Dem Ind.

77.1 GOP GOP R. Lugar 87.7 Lib S.Osborn 12.3 Dem Maine 22.8 GOP GOP O. Snowe Dem J. Hay Bright GOP Md. 33 Dem i Dem B.

Cardin 50.1 i GOP M. Steele 48.3 Dem Mass. 76 Dem Dem E. Kennedy 69.5 GOP K. Chase 30 5 Dem Mich.

20.4 Dem I Dem D. Stabenow i GOP M. Bouchard Dem Minn. 17.9 i Dem Dem A. Klobuchar GOP M.Kennedy GOP Miss.

63 GOP GOP T. Lott 63.9 Dem E. Fleming 34.6 GOP Mo. 27.5 GOP i GOP J. Talent Dem C.

McCaskill I GOP Mont. 0.8 I GOP GOP C. Bums i Dem J. Tester Dem Neb. 9.9 Dem Dem B.

Nelson I GOP Ricketts fiOP Nev. 6.5 GOP GOP J. Ensign Dem J. Carter Dem N.J. 71.5 Dem Dem B.

Menendez 53.8 GOP T. Kean, Jr. 44.1 I Dem N.M. 15.8 Dem Dem J. Blngaman GOP A.

McCulloch GOP Y. 60.5 Dem Dem H. Clinton 68.9 i GOP J. Spencer 29 i Dem N.D. 60.1 Dem Dem K.

Conrad 67.1 GOP D. Grotberg 30 Dem Ohio 47.2 GOP Dem S. Brown 55.3 I GOP M. DeWine 44.7 GOP Pa. 52.8 GOP Dem B.Casey 59.6 GOP R.

Santorum 40.4: GOP R.I. 84 1j GOP Dem S. Whitehouse 53.3 GOP L. Chafee 46.7! Dem Tenn. 68.7 GOP GOP B.

Corker 51.4 Dem H.Ford 47.4 GOP Texas 26 GOP GOP K. Hutchison Dem B. Radnofsky I GOP Utah 0 GOP GOP O. Hatch Dem P. Ashdown GOP Vt.

47.3 I Ind Ind B. Sanders 65 GOP R. Tarrant 32 9 i Dem Va. 94.1 GOP GOP G. Allen 50.1 Dem J.

Webb 48.8 GOP Wash. 0 i Dem Dem Cantwell GOP McGavick i Dem W.Va. 74.7 Dem Dem R. Byrd 65 GOP J. Raese 33.1 Dem Wis.

20.7 Dem Dem H. Kohl GOP R. Lorge Dem Wyo. 34.8 GOP GOP C.Thomas 68.7 Dem D. Groutage 31.3 I GOP BY DAVID CRARY The Associated Press Amendments to ban gay marriage won approval Tuesday in three states including Wisconsin, where gay-rights activists had nursed hopes of engineering the first defeat of such a ban.

Nationwide, a total of 205 measures were on the ballots in 37 states ranging from routine bond issues to a riveting contest in South Dakota, where voters chose whether to upnoia or reject a tougnest-in-the-nation law that would ban virtually all abortions. Activists on both sides of the abortion debate were on edge over the campaign, and early returns showed a close contest. If the ban is upheld, abortion-rights supporters are likely to launch a legal challenge that could lead all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Eight states had ban-gay-marriage amendments on their ballots; South Carolina and Virginia joined Wisconsin in approving them, while results were pending in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, South Incumbent.