Wyoming Secretary of State election, 2010
In the Wyoming Secretary of State election of 2010, held on November 2, 2010, Republican incumbent Max Maxfield defeated two challengers: Democrat Andrew Simons and Libertarian Candice De Laat. Maxfield won a commanding 76.13% of the vote, with Simons and De Laat capturing 19.49% and 4.37% of the vote, respectively. In the primary election on August 17, both Maxfield and Simons ran unopposed.
Incumbent Maxfield first won election as the state's secretary of state in 2006. He was challenged in the state's Republican primary by Mary Ann Collins and defeated her 53.8 percent to 46.2 percent. In the general election contest, Maxfield faced Libertarian challenger Dennis Brossman, winning by 148,210 (81.7%) votes to 32,551 (18.0%) votes.[1]
General Election campaign
Results
| 2010 Race for Secretary of State - General Election[2] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote Percentage | |
| Republican Party |  Max Maxfield
|
76.1% | |
| Democratic Party | Andrew Simons | 19.5% | |
| Libertarian Party | Candice De Laat | 4.4% | |
| Total Votes | 184,156 | ||
Endorsements
Finances
According to Follow the Money, the breakdown of campaign finances for each of the candidates is as follows:
| Wyoming Secretary of State Campaign Finance | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Total Contributions | |||||||||||||
| Max Maxfield[3] | $58,261 | |||||||||||||
| Andrew Simons[4] | $5,210 | |||||||||||||
| Candice De Laat[5] | $0 | |||||||||||||
Primary elections
Democratic primary
Andrew Simons[6] ran unopposed in the Democratic primary election, held August 17, 2010.
| 2010 Race for Secretary of State - Democratic Primary Election[7] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote Percentage | |
| Democratic Party | Andrew Simons
|
99.4% | |
| Democratic Party | Write in | 0.6% | |
| Total Votes | 19,997 | ||
Republican primary
Incumbent Max Maxfield[8] ran unopposed in the Republican primary election, held August 17, 2010.
| 2010 Race for Secretary of State - Republican Primary Election[9] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote Percentage | |
| Republican Party | Max Maxfield
|
99.6% | |
| Republican Party | Write in | 0.4% | |
| Total Votes | 91,883 | ||
External links
- List of candidates qualified for Wyoming's August 17 Secretary of State primary
- Green Paper's list of candidates for Wyoming Secretary of State, 2010
Republican candidates
Democratic candidates
Footnotes
- ↑ Our Campaigns - WY Sec. of State Election Returns
- ↑ Wyoming Secretary of State - 2010 General Election Results
- ↑ Follow the Money.org, "Max Maxfield candidate summary," May 6, 2011
- ↑ Follow the Money.org, "Andrew Simons candidate summary," May 6, 2011
- ↑ Follow the Money.org, "Candice De Laat candidate summary," May 6, 2011
- ↑ Star Tribune, "Dem enters secretary of state race" 21 May, 2010
- ↑ Wyoming Secretary of State, "2010 official primary election results (page 4)," August 17, 2010
- ↑ Red State, "My Take on the 2010 WY Races" 2 Feb. 2010
- ↑ Wyoming Secretary of State, "2010 official primary election results (page 4)," August 17, 2010
