Arizona: 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.

North Carolina: The Clean Elections program North Carolina implemented for top judicial seats and three statewide Council of State offices has been overwhelmingly adopted by candidates. The year 2008 marked the third time candidates had the option of participating in a public financing program. Clean Elections candidates won all five of the North Carolina Court of Appeals races. Additionally, both candidates in the Supreme Court ran under the Clean Elections program. The winners include two African-Americans and two women.

In sum, 68 percent of North Carolina’s top judicial seats are now held by judges that ran under the Clean Elections program. That number includes five of the seven Supreme Court Justices, and 10 of 15 Court of Appeals judges. 

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.

Connecticut: November 2008 saw Connecticut’s first general election under its new Citizens’ Elections Program and the results were outstanding.  Participating candidates made up 75 percent of those seeking office in Connecticut’s General Assembly. A total of 151 out of 187 seats, or 82 percent, will be filled by officials who used Clean Elections. In the state Senate, 32 of 36 seats, or 89 percent, are now held by Clean Elections officials.  In the House, officials who ran under the Clean Elections system will hold 119 of 151 seats.

New Jersey: In 2007, all nine of New Jersey's winning legislature candidates in the three districts where the state’s pilot Fair and Clean Elections system was available ran with public financing. The winners include Democrats and Republicans, representatives and senators, from all three districts where the program was available. Eighty percent of the candidates used the system and 100 percent of the winners did.

Portland, Ore. And New Mexico: Longtime civic activist Amanda Fritz won the first Portland City Council race run entirely under a Clean Elections program.  In doing so, Fritz will become one of the city’s four commissioners, elected citywide to a non-partisan position serving Portland’s 570,000 citizens.

In New Mexico, the two candidates running under the Clean Elections programs won their races for seats on the Public Regulation Commission.