Most LDS incumbents in Congress in the Nov. 8 election won their elections. Those who won their races were:
American Samoa
Rep. Eni Faleomavaega, Democrat, American Samoa (non-voting delegate), fourth term.
California
Rep. John Doolittle, Republican, Second District (northern California), fourth term.
Rep. Wally Herger Republican, Fourth District (northern California), fifth term.
Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon Republican, 25th District, (Santa Clarita area), second term.
Rep. Ron Packard, Republican, 48th District (northern San Diego, southern Orange counties), seventh term.
Idaho
Rep. Michael Crapo, Republican, Second District (eastern Idaho), second term.
Oklahoma
Rep. Ernest Istook, Republican, Fifth District, (northern Oklahoma City, northern Oklahoma), second term.
Utah
Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican, fourth term.
Rep. James V. Hansen, Republican, First District (northwestern to southwestern Utah), eighth term.
Rep. Bill Orton, Democrat, Third District (part of Salt Lake County, central and southern Utah), third term.
In addition, two LDS candidates won their first term as representatives to the U.S. House of Representatives. They are:
Enid Greene Waldholtz, Republican, Second District, (Salt Lake County), and Matt Salmon, a Republican from Arizona's First District (includes metropolitan areas in Tempe, Mesa).
Also, LDS candidates who lost high profile races in the Nov. 8 election were:
Larry Echohawk, a Democrat, who lost his bid to be Idaho's governor, and Mitt Romney, a Republican who lost his Massachusetts Senate race to Ted Kennedy.
Dick Swett, an LDS Democrat incumbent from New Hampshire, lost his bid for re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives.
