Missouri 2010 Election Results

Ballot Measures, August 3, 2010

Missouri voters decided 1 statewide ballot measure on August 3, 2010.

Ballot measures

General Election, November 2, 2010

Missouri held its general election on November 2, 2010, deciding 180 legislative seats and the office of Auditor. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Republicans widened their majorities in both chambers, but Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon kept Missouri's government divided heading into redistricting after the census. The House majority stopped short of two-thirds, and that mattered in May 2011. To override Nixon's veto of a congressional map that eliminated U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan's St. Louis district, the House under Speaker Steve Tilley needed Democratic help, and it got exactly the votes required, including four Democrats.
• Republicans grew their House majority from 89-74 to 106-57. In the Senate, they padded their veto-proof majority from 23-11 to 26-8, unseating Sens. Frank Barnitz (D) in Senate District 16 and Wes Shoemyer (D) in Senate District 18. The closest Senate race was in Senate District 24, left open by term-limited Sen. Joan Bray (D). John Lamping (R) beat Barbara Fraser (D) there by about 130 votes, close enough that Fraser said she would seek a recount; the official returns kept Lamping ahead.
• In the one statewide race, Tom Schweich (R), a former State Department official who had never sought elected office, unseated Auditor Susan Montee (D) by about 5 points, making her just the third state auditor to lose re-election in 40 years.
• Republicans flipped 20 legislative seats and lost none. All 13 incumbents who lost were Democrats, a count that includes Montee. Rep. Sara Lampe (D) barely survived, holding House District 138 by 100 votes over John Sellars (R). Among the House members ousted:
  • Paul Wieland (R) beat Rep. Jeff Roorda (D) in House District 102.
  • Paul Curtman (R) beat Rep. Michael Frame (D) in House District 105.
  • Ron Schieber (R) edged Rep. Jason Grill (D) by about 170 votes in House District 32.
• Voters approved all 5 measures on the November ballot. Proposition B, which capped commercial breeders at 50 breeding dogs, passed by a narrow margin. Proposition A, bankrolled by retired investment adviser Rex Sinquefield, banned new local earnings taxes and required St. Louis and Kansas City voters to renew theirs every five years. Amendment 3 barred new taxes on the sale or transfer of real estate.

Legislature

• House (163 seats): 74 D, 88 R, 1 other or vacant before the election, 57 D, 106 R after; control stayed with Republicans.
• Senate (34 seats): 11 D, 23 R before the election, 8 D, 26 R after; control stayed with Republicans.

Statewide races

Legislative races

Ballot measures