United States Senate election in Oregon, 2014

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See also: Oregon state elections, 2014
United States Senate election in Oregon, 2014
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  Merkley official photo.jpg Dr. Monica Wehby.jpg
Nominee Jeff Merkley Monica Wehby
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 814,537 538,847
Percentage 55.7% 36.9%
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County results
U.S. senator before election

Jeff Merkley
Democratic

 Elected U.S. Senator

Jeff Merkley
Democratic

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The 2014 United States Senate election in Oregon took place on November 4, 2014 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Oregon, concurrently with the election of the Governor of Oregon, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

Incumbent Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley ran for re-election to a second term.[1] Primary elections were held on May 20, 2014. Merkley easily won the Democratic nomination, while the Republicans nominated pediatric neurosurgeon Monica Wehby.

Background

Democrat Jeff Merkley, the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, defeated two-term Republican incumbent Gordon H. Smith with 49% of the vote in 2008.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Results

Democratic primary results[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jeff Merkley 277,120 92.04
Democratic William Bryk 11,330 3.76
Democratic Pavel Goberman 8,436 2.8
write-ins 4,194 1.39
Total votes 301,080 100

Republican primary

Results by county:
  Monica Wehby
  Jason Conger

Candidates

Declared

Withdrew

  • Sam Carpenter, businessman[9]

Declined

Endorsements

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size		 Margin of
error		 Mark
Callahan		 Jason
Conger		 Tim
Crawley		 Jo Rae
Perkins		 Monica
Wehby		 Undecided
Public Opinion Strategies May 12–13, 2014 500 ± 4.38% 2% 24% 2% 2% 41% 26%
Wenzel Strategies May 1–4, 2014 607 ± ? 4% 22.3% 2.7% 2.5% 42.9% 25.5%
Benenson Strategy Group April 14–17, 2014 410 ± ? — 24% — — 22% 55%

Results

Republican primary results[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Monica Wehby 134,627 49.96
Republican Jason Conger 101,401 37.63
Republican Mark Callahan 18,220 6.76
Republican Jo Rae Perkins 7,602 2.82
Republican Tim Crawley 6,566 2.44
write-ins 1,027 0.38
Total votes 266,438 100

Independents

The filing deadline for independent candidates is August 26, 2014. In order to qualify, a candidate must submit 17,893 signatures of registered voters or obtain signatures from at least 1,000 electors at a valid assembly of electors.[21]

Candidates

Declared

  • Karl King, massage therapist[22]

General election

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size		 Margin of
error		 Jeff
Merkley (D)		 Monica
Wehby (R)		 Other Undecided
Elway Research October 26–27, 2014 403 ± 5% 49% 30% 3%[23] 18%
SurveyUSA October 23–27, 2014 552 ± 4.3% 53% 32% 8% 6%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov October 16–23, 2014 1,421 ± 4% 51% 39% 1% 9%
SurveyUSA October 16–19, 2014 561 ± 4.2% 53% 32% 7% 8%
DHM Research October 2014  ? ± 4.3% 47% 26% 6% 19%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov September 20–October 1, 2014 1,508 ± 3% 52% 39% 1% 8%
SurveyUSA September 22–24, 2014 568 ± 4.2% 52% 32% 8% 8%
Polling Company/WomanTrend September 9–11, 2014 600 ± 4% 42% 34% 7%[24] 14%
Rasmussen Reports September 2–3, 2014 750 ± 4% 48% 35% 5% 12%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov August 18–September 2, 2014 1,541 ± 4% 51% 39% 1% 9%
Moore Information^ August 5–9, 2014 500 ± 4% 47% 38% — 16%
SurveyUSA August 1–5, 2014 564 ± 4.2% 52% 33% 7% 9%
CBS News/NYT/YouGov July 5–24, 2014 2,088 ± 2.6% 53% 39% 1% 7%
SurveyUSA June 5–9, 2014 560 ± 4.2% 50% 32% 9% 9%
The Tarrance Group* June 1–3, 2014 615 ± 4.1% 41% 39% 9%[25] 11%
Public Policy Polling May 22–27, 2014 956 ± 3.2% 50% 36% — 15%
Rasmussen Reports May 21–22, 2014 750 ± 4% 47% 37% 5% 11%
Vox Populi Polling April 28–30, 2014 618 ± 3.9% 41% 45% — 14%
Benenson Strategy Group April 14–17, 2014 600 ± 4% 52% 32% — 16%
Harper Polling April 1–2, 2014 670 ± 3.91% 46% 34% — 20%

Results

United States Senate election in Oregon, 2014, results[26]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jeff Merkley 814,537 55.72
Republican Monica Wehby 538,847 36.87
Libertarian Mike Monchalin 44,916 3.07
Pacific Green Christina Jean Lugo 32,434 2.22
Constitution (Oregon) James E. Leuenberger 24,212 1.66
write-ins 6,672 0.46
Total votes 1,461,618 100
Democratic hold Swing

See also

References

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  23. ↑ Christina Lugo (G) 1%, Mike Montchalin (L) 2%
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  25. ↑ Karl King (I) 5%, Mike Montchalin (L) 4%
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External links

Official campaign websites
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