User talk:John Broughton/Wikiproject Notable races for the House 2006/Scope of this project

House races included in this project
All races where the winning candidate got 55% or less of the vote are considered competitive and are included in this list. Races where the winner got between more than 55% but less than 60% of the vote were evaluated on a case-by-case basis for inclusion in this list.

These 91 races are for slightly less than 20 percent of the 435 districts in the House.

A-C

 * Arizona 1st congressional district election, 2006 - being used as test
 * Arizona 5th congressional district election, 2006
 * Arizona 8th congressional district election, 2006 - being used as test
 * California 4th congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * California 11th congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * California 50th congressional district election, 2006
 * Colorado 4th congressional district election, 2006
 * Colorado 5th congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * Colorado 7th congressional district election, 2006
 * Connecticut 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * Connecticut 4th congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * Connecticut 5th congressional district election, 2006

F-I

 * Florida 8th congressional district election, 2006 -
 * Florida 9th congressional district election, 2006
 * Florida 13th congressional district election, 2006
 * Florida 16th congressional district election, 2006
 * Florida 22nd congressional district election, 2006
 * Georgia 8th congressional district election, 2006
 * Georgia 12th congressional district election, 2006
 * Idaho 1st congressional district election, 2006
 * Illinois 6th congressional district election, 2006
 * Illinois 8th congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * Illinois 10th congressional district election, 2006
 * Illinois 11th congressional district election, 2006
 * Illinois 17th congressional district election, 2006
 * Indiana 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * Indiana 7th congressional district election, 2006
 * Indiana 8th congressional district election, 2006
 * Indiana 9th congressional district election, 2006
 * Iowa 1st congressional district election, 2006
 * Iowa 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * Iowa 3rd congressional district election, 2006

K-M

 * Kansas 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * Kentucky 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * Kentucky 3rd congressional district election, 2006
 * Kentucky 4th congressional district election, 2006
 * Louisiana 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * Louisiana 3rd congressional district election, 2006
 * Michigan 7th congressional district election, 2006
 * Michigan 8th congressional district election, 2006
 * Michigan 9th congressional district election, 2006
 * Minnesota 1st congressional district election, 2006
 * Minnesota 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * Minnesota 5th congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * Minnesota 6th congressional district election, 2006

N-O

 * Nebraska 3rd congressional district election, 2006
 * Nevada 2nd congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * Nevada 3rd congressional district election, 2006
 * New Hampshire 1st congressional district election, 2006
 * New Hampshire 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * New Jersey 5th congressional district election, 2006
 * New Jersey 7th congressional district election, 2006
 * New Mexico 1st congressional district election, 2006
 * New York 3rd congressional district election, 2006
 * New York 13th congressional district election, 2006
 * New York 19th congressional district election, 2006
 * New York 20th congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * New York 24th congressional district election, 2006
 * New York 25th congressional district election, 2006
 * New York 26th congressional district election, 2006
 * New York 29th congressional district election, 2006
 * North Carolina 5th congressional district election, 2006
 * North Carolina 8th congressional district election, 2006
 * North Carolina 11th congressional district election, 2006
 * Ohio 1st congressional district election, 2006
 * Ohio 2nd congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * Ohio 4th congressional district election, 2006
 * Ohio 6th congressional district election, 2006
 * Ohio 12th congressional district election, 2006
 * Ohio 13th congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * Ohio 15th congressional district election, 2006
 * Ohio 18th congressional district election, 2006
 * Oklahoma 5th congressional district election, 2006

P-W

 * Pennsylvania 4th congressional district election, 2006
 * Pennsylvania 6th congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * Pennsylvania 7th congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * Pennsylvania 8th congressional district election, 2006
 * Pennsylvania 10th congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * South Carolina 5th congressional district election, 2006
 * Texas 17th congressional district election, 2006
 * Texas 22nd congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * Texas 23rd congressional district election, 2006
 * Utah 3rd congressional district election, 2006
 * Vermont AL congressional district election, 2006
 * Virginia 2nd congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * Virginia 10th congressional district election, 2006
 * Washington 5th congressional district election, 2006
 * Washington 8th congressional district election, 2006
 * West Virginia 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * Wisconsin 8th congressional district election, 2006 - already existed; good start; add template when project is official
 * Wyoming AL congressional district election, 2006

House races listed at United States House elections, 2006 but not included in this project
In general, races where the winning candidate got 60% or more of the vote are considered non-competitive and are NOT included in this project. The following 25 races fall into that category.

''Note: comments about why these races should NOT be excluded are always welcome; please insert them directly below the race in question, and sign your name. Also, of course, anyone is welcome to create and/or improve these articles even though they are not officially in the project.''


 * Arkasas 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * California 22nd congressional district election, 2006
 * California 41st congressional district election, 2006
 * Colorado 3rd congressional district election, 2006
 * Hawaii 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * Illinois 14th congressional district election, 2006
 * Illinois 19th congressional district election, 2006
 * Louisiana 7th congressional district election, 2006
 * Maryland 3rd congressional district election, 2006
 * Montana AL congressional district election, 2006
 * Nebraska 1st congressional district election, 2006
 * New Jersey 3rd congressional district election, 2006
 * New York 11th congressional district election, 2006
 * North Dakota AL congressional district election, 2006
 * Pennsylvania 12th Congressional District election, 2006
 * Tennessee 1st congressional district election, 2006
 * Tennessee 9th congressional district election, 2006
 * Texas 15th congressional district election, 2006
 * Texas 21st congressional district election, 2006
 * Texas 25th congressional district election, 2006
 * Texas 28th congressional district election, 2006
 * Utah 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * Washington 2nd congressional district election, 2006
 * West Virginia 1st congressional district election, 2006

Other House races where articles exist but races are NOT included in this project
The following articles also exist, and are not in either of the two lists above. They are noted here for completeness and to reduce confusion.
 * Georgia 4th congressional district election, 2006 - the incumbent, Cynthia McKinney, was defeated in the primary in this heavily Democratic district.
 * Minnesota 8th congressional district election, 2006 - incumbent Democrat Jim Oberstar won with 64% of the vote.
 * New Jersey 13th congressional district election, 2006 - open seat, heavily Democratic district, won by Albio Sires, who also won the special election (as on November 7) to fill the remainder of the term.

Categorization
The source for the above was all articles in the category "United States House of Representatives elections by state", for the 2006 general election. The articles in that category can be found [here].