Clean Elections Winners: Election ResultsArizona: Clean Elections has been an option for Arizona state candidates since 2000 and two-thirds of candidates chose to run in 2008 using the program. Currently 52 percent of the legislature is made up of officials that used the Clean Elections program, up from 42 percent in 2006.
As of January 2009, 47 officials that used the voluntary system will hold 62 percent of Arizona House seats and 33 percent of Senate seats. This means that officials using the Clean Elections program will hold 37 of 60 Arizona House seats and 10 of 30 Senate Seats.
All three of the Corporation Commissioners elected ran and won under the Clean Elections program which makes 8 out of 10 statewide elected officials in Arizona ran and won using Clean Elections.
Maine: Clean Elections have become a vital part of the election process in Maine since first being instituted in 2000. In 2009, 85 percent of the legislature is represented by people who won using their Clean Elections program. Officials who ran under the Clean Elections program will hold 80 percent of the Senate, or 28 seats, and 86 percent, or 130 seats, in the Maine House of Representatives.
In addition, Clean Election candidates won two of the Council of State Offices. June Atkinson, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Wayne Goodwin, Commissioner of Insurance, are both serving free from the influence of big special interest money. In fact, the percentage of campaign contributions to the Commissioner of Insurance by those industries directly regulated by that office dropped from 66% in 2004 to 4% in 2008.
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