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+Terry Branstad/Kim Reynolds (R)
592,494
 		52.81%
Chet Culver/Patty Judge (D) i
 		484,798
 		43.21%
Jonathan Narcisse/Richard Marlar (IP)
 		20,859
 		1.86%
Eric Cooper/Nick Weltha (L)
 		14,398
 		1.28%
Gregory James Hughes/Robin Prior-Calef (I) 3,884
 		0.35%
David Rosenfeld/Helen Meyers (SW)
 		2,757
 		0.25%
write-ins
 		2,823
 		0.25%

1,122,013
Registration: 2,124,116.  Total votes: 1,133,430 (628 over votes and 10,789 under votes).
Plurality: 107,696 votes (9.60 percentage points).
 Iowa Secretary of State


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Notes:  Gov. Chet Culver (D), seeking a second term, lost to former Gov. Terry Branstad (R); additionally four other candidates were on the November ballot.
Culver was unopposed in the June 8 primary.  Prior to being elected governor in 2006, he served two terms as Secretary of State.

In the Republican primary Branstad faced Bob Vander Plaats and state Rep. Rod Roberts.  Branstad had been serving as president of Des Moines University; previously he served four terms as governor from 1983-1999, one term as lieutenant governor, and three terms in the Iowa House, first elected in 1972.  Vander Plaats, President of MVP Leadership, Inc., a Sioux City consulting business, ran for governor in 2002 and 2006 and was the nominee for lieutenant governor in 2006; he also chaired Mike Huckabee's 2008 Iowa caucus campaign.  Branstad won by 114,450 votes (50.33%) to 93,058 (40.92%) for Vander Plaats and 19,896 (8.75%) for Roberts out of 227,404 total votes tallied.  Branstad announced state Sen. Kim Reynolds as his running mate on June 24.
Culver and Branstad engaged in three debates:

Sept. 14 - KCAU-TV at the Orpheum Theatre in Sioux City (>);

Oct. 7 - at Coe College in Cedar Rapids;

Oct. 21 - Des Moines Register from Iowa Public Television studios in Johnston (>).

Branstad campaign manager Jeff Boeyink notes that the campaign "raised a record $8.5 million during the campaign cycle, and was the first campaign in nearly 50 years to defeat an incumbent Iowa governor."
 

Campaign Managers
Terry Branstad:  Jeffrey R. Boeyink
(Oct. 2009)  Previously executive director of the Republican Party of Iowa.  President of Iowans for Tax Relief.  M.P.A. in public administration from Iowa State University, 1987; B.A. in political science and government from Central College, 1985.

Chet Culver: Donn Stanley
(May 1, 2010)  Leave of absence from position as Special Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, started in 2007.  Assistant Attorney General, Oct. 2000-June 2007.  J.D. from Drake University Law School; B.A. in English from Simpson College.

- Abby Curran (Jan.-mid April 2010)  Tennessee state director for The Alliance For Climate Protection, May-Dec. 2009.  Campaign manager on Linda Stender for Congress (NJ), Mar.-Dec. 2008.  Deputy state field director on John Edwards for President Iowa and Nevada campaigns, June 2007-Jan. 2008.  Deputy campaign manager on Bruce Lunsford for Governor (KY), Feb.-May 2007.  Campaign manager on Baron Hill for Congress, May-Dec. 2006.  Northern Virgina regional director on the Virginia Coordinated Campaign, Feb.-Nov. 2005.  Field organizer on the Alaska Democratic Coordinated Campaign, 2004.  Field organizer in Dubuque on Dick Gephardt for President, 2003-04.
- Jesse Harris (interim)
- Andrew Roos (Sept.-late Nov. 2009)  Campaign manager on Jack Markell for governor of Delaware, 2008.


See also:
Tyler Kingkade.  "Culver bids farewell to time as Governor."  Iowa State Daily, Nov. 2, 2010.

Shira Toepliitz and Jonathan Martin.  "Branstad makes cautious pick."  Politico, June 24, 2010.

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