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The 2006 United States Senate election in Utah was held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Republican
Orrin Hatch Orrin Grant Hatch (March 22, 1934 – April 23, 2022) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah from 1977 to 2019. Hatch's 42-year Senate tenure made him the longest-serving Republican U.S. senato ...
won re-election to a sixth term. Hatch won all but one county with 60% to 70% of the vote. Ashdown won only Summit County by 342 votes.


Major candidates

The filing deadline for major party candidates was March 17, 2006.


Democratic

* Pete Ashdown, the founder and CEO of Utah's oldest
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, XMission.


Republican

*
Orrin Hatch Orrin Grant Hatch (March 22, 1934 – April 23, 2022) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah from 1977 to 2019. Hatch's 42-year Senate tenure made him the longest-serving Republican U.S. senato ...
, incumbent U.S. Senator first elected in 1976


General election


Polling


Predictions


Results


Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

* Summit (largest municipality:
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)


See also

* 2006 United States Senate elections


References


External links


Pete Ashdown for United States Senate

Scott Bradley for Senate

The Official Orrin Hatch campaign site

Joe Labonte's website

Roger I. Price's website

Libertarian Dave Starr Seely's website
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