Electoral history of Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...

, 67th United States Secretary of State

United States Secretary of State

The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence...

 (2009-), United States Senator from New York

New York

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 (2001-2009), First Lady of the United States

First Lady of the United States

First Lady of the United States is the title of the hostess of the White House. Because this position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, the title is most often applied to the wife of a sitting president. The current first lady is Michelle Obama.-Current:The...

 (1993-2001) and a candidate for 2008 Democratic Party Presidential nomination

New York United States Senate elections, 2000 and 2006

Democratic primary for United States Senate from New York, 2000:

• Hillary Rodham Clinton - 565,353 (81.98%)
• Mark P. McMahon - 124,315 (18.03%)

New York United States Senate election, 2000

New York United States Senate election, 2000

The United States Senate election in New York in 2000 was held on November 7, 2000. First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first First Lady to run for political office, defeated Congressman Rick Lazio. The general election coincided with the 2000 U.S...

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) - 3,747,310 (55.27%)
• Rick Lazio
  Rick Lazio
  Enrico Anthony "Rick" Lazio is a former U.S. Representative from the state of New York. Lazio became well known nationally when he ran against Hillary Rodham Clinton for the U.S. Senate in New York's 2000 Senate election...
  
   (R
  Republican Party (United States)
  The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
  
  ) - 2,915,730 (43.01%)
• Jeffrey E. Graham (Independence) - 43,181 (0.64%)
• Mark Dunau (Green) - 40,991 (0.61%)
• John O. Adefope (Right to Life
  Right to life
  Right to life is a phrase that describes the belief that a human being has an essential right to live, particularly that a human being has the right not to be killed by another human being...
  
  ) - 21,439 (0.32%)
• John Clifton (LBT) - 4,734 (0.07%)
• Louis P. Wein (CST) - 3,414 (0.05%)
• Jacob J. Perasso (Socialist Workers) - 3,040 (0.05%)

Clinton also ran on the Working Families and Liberal

Liberal Party of New York

The Liberal Party of New York is a minor American political party that has been active only in the state of New York. Its platform supports a standard set of social liberal policies: it supports right to abortion, increased spending on education, and universal health care.As of 2007, the Liberal...

 lines, while Lazio on Conservative

Working Families Party

Working Families Party

The Working Families Party is a minor political party in the United States founded in New York in 1998. There are "sister" parties to the New York WFP in Connecticut, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Oregon, but there is as yet no national WFP...

 United States Senate convention, 2006:

• Hillary Rodham Clinton (inc.) - 9,364 (93.64%)
• Jonathan Tasini
  Jonathan Tasini
  Jonathan Yoav Tasini is a strategist, organizer, activist, commentator and writer, primarily focusing his energies on the topics of work, labor and the economy. On June 11, 2009, he announced that he would challenge New York U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the Democratic primary for the 2010...
  
   - 636 (6.36%)

Democratic primary for United States Senate from New York, 2006:

• Hillary Rodham Clinton (inc.) - 640,955 (83.68%)
• Jonathan Tasini - 124,999 (16.32%)

New York United States Senate election, 2006

New York United States Senate election, 2006

The 2006 United States Senate election in New York was held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton ran for and would win a second term representing New York in the United States Senate...

:

• Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) (inc.) - 3,008,428 (67.00%)
• John Spencer
  John Spencer (politician)
  John Spencer is the former Mayor of Yonkers, New York . He was the 2006 Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from New York and lost to incumbent Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.-Early life, military service and education:...
  
   (R) - 1,392,189 (31.01%)
• Howie Hawkins
  Howie Hawkins
  Howie Hawkins is an American politician and activist with the Green Party of the United States and Socialist Party USA. He co-founded the anti-nuclear Clamshell Alliance in 1976 and the Green Party in the United States in 1984. He was New York's Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in the...
  
   (Green) - 55,469 (1.24%)
• Jeff Russell
  Jeff Russell
  Jeffrey Lee Russell is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played 14 years from 1983 to 1996. Russell played for the Cincinnati Reds of the National League and the Texas Rangers, Oakland A's, Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians, all of the American League...
  
   (LBT) - 20,996 (0.47%)
• Róger Calero
  Róger Calero
  Róger Calero is a Nicaraguan American journalist and one of the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party. He was SWP candidate for President of the United States in 2004 and 2008, and for the United States Senate in New York in 2006....
  
   (Socialist Workers) - 6,967 (0.16%)
• Bill Van Auken
  Bill Van Auken
  Bill Van Auken is a politician and activist for the Socialist Equality Party and was a presidential candidate in the U.S. election of 2004, announcing his candidacy on January 27, 2004. His running mate was Jim Lawrence. He came in 15th for the popular vote, receiving 1,857 votes. In November...
  
   (Socialist Equality) - 6,004 (0.13%)

Clinton also ran on Independence and Working Families line, while Spencer on Conservative

United States presidential election, 2008

United States presidential election, 2008

The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama, then the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. Obama received 365...

2008 Democratic presidential primaries

Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries

The results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries are the detailed outcomes of a series of contests by which members of the United States Democratic Party choose their candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. The contests are held in each of the fifty U.S. states, as well as...

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Excluding penalized contests, only primary and caucuses votes:

• Barack Obama - 16,706,853
• Hillary Rodham Clinton - 16,239,821
• John Edwards* - 742,010
• Bill Richardson* - 89,054
• Uncommitted - 82,660
• Dennis Kucinich
  Dennis Kucinich
  Dennis John Kucinich is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He was furthermore a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections....
  
  * - 68,482
• Joe Biden
  Joe Biden
  Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...
  
  * - 64,041
• Mike Gravel
  Mike Gravel
  Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election....
  
  * - 27,662
• Christopher Dodd
  Christopher Dodd
  Christopher John "Chris" Dodd is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period ending with the 111th United States Congress....
  
  * - 25,300
• Others - 22,556

Including penalized contests:

• Hillary Rodham Clinton - 18,225,175 (48.03%)
• Barack Obama - 17,988,182 (47.41%)
• John Edwards* - 1,006,275 (2.65%)
• Uncommitted - 299,610 (0.79%)
• Bill Richardson* - 106,073 (0.28%)
• Dennis Kucinich* - 103,994 (0.27%)
• Joe Biden
  Joe Biden
  Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...
  
  * - 81,641 (0.22%)
• Scattering - 44,348 (0.12%)
• Mike Gravel* - 40,251 (0.11%)
• Christopher Dodd* - 35,281 (0.09%)

(* - dropped out from race before end of caucuses and primaries)

2008 Democratic delegate counts (just before dropping out):

(2,118 delegates needed to secure nomination)

Pledged delegates:

• Barack Obama - 1,765
• Hillary Rodham Clinton - 1,637
• John Edwards - 4

Including superdelegate

Superdelegate

"Superdelegate" is an informal term commonly used for some of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention, the presidential nominating convention of the United States Democratic Party....

s:

• Barack Obama - 2,156 (52.79%)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton - 1,922 (47.06%)
• John Edwards - 6 (0.15%)

2008 Democratic National Convention

2008 Democratic National Convention

The United States 2008 Democratic National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party where it adopted its national platform and officially nominated its candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. The convention was held in Denver,...

 (Presidential tally):

Unfinished roll call vote:

• Barack Obama
  Barack Obama
  Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
  
  - 1549 (35.07%)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton - 341.5 (7.73%)
• Abstaining - 1 (0%)

Legal Services Corporation nominations, 1978 and 1980

Confirmation in the United States Senate:

1978

• Confirmed for a two-year term, expiring in 1980.

1980

• Confirmed for a three year term, expiring in 1983.

Secretary of State nomination, 2009

Confirmation in the United States Senate:

• Yea - 94
• Nay - 2
• Non-voting - 2 (Sen. Ted Kennedy unable because of health and Sen. Clinton herself not being able to vote)