273 House Races have candidates – onwards and forwards.

With the 50 State page in a temporary? (please come back 50 State Page hint hint Barry Welsh) hiatus I figured a candidate update was in order. Yes I know it is WAAAAYYYY early in the 2008 cycle but the sooner House candidates get in the field the better.

And the news on the filing front is great, courtesy of the 2008 Race Tracker Wiki.

Below the fold for all the news.
(cross posted at MyDD and Daily Kos)

2 1/2 months ago I diaried about the fact that we had 248 Races Filled.

This of course included 233 districts held by Democratic Congresscritters (yeh yeh I know some will not run but I am assuming we will find candidates in those districts!)

Now some 10 weeks later we have 40 Republican districts filled for a grand total of 273 districts filled.

***Remember that a confirmed candidate has either filed with the FEC, The Sec of State or has an active campaign website, or even if they come and blog and say yep I am running.***

Remember also that I am not commenting on the quality of each or any candidate merely that they are out and about.

So without further ado:
1) GOP held districts with confirmed Democratic challengers are as follows:
AZ-01,
AZ-02,
AR-03,
CA-04,
CA-41, [In the event of a special election but he will run in 2008 methinks!]
CA-48,
FL-01,
FL-09,
FL-13, [Either through the House of Reps investigation or Jennings has committed to another run.]
FL-21,
FL-25,
GA-10 [SPECIAL ELECTION JUNE 19TH],
ID-01,
IL-10,
IL-14,
IN-06,
IA-04,
IA-05,
MI-07,
MN-06,
MO-09,
NE-02,
NV-03,
NJ-11,
NM-02,
NY-25,
NY-29,
NC-08,
NC-09,
OH-07,
OH-15,
OH-16,
PA-03,
PA-15,
TX-04,
TX-08,
TX-13,
VA-06,
WA-08,
WI-01,

2) The following 2 GOP held districts have candidates that are expected to run but are yet to confirm:
NJ-05,
NJ-07,

3) We also have the following 37 GOP held districts have rumoured candidates – please note that some of these “rumours” are extremely tenuous!
AL-01,
AL-04,
AK-AL,
AZ-03,
AZ-06,
CA-03,
CA-42,
CA-45,
CO-04,
CT-04,
DE-AL,
FL-06,
FL-12,
KY-05,
MI-09,
MN-02,
MO-06,
MT-AL,
NE-03,
NJ-02,
NJ-03,
NJ-04,
NM-01,
NY-03,
NY-13,
NY-26,
OH-01,
OH-02,
PA-06,
PA-18,
TN-07,
TX-02,
TX-03,
TX-06,
TX-14,
UT-03,
VA-11,

4) And last but not least the following 123 districts have not a single rumoured candidate:
AL-02,
AL-03,
AL-06,
CA-02,
CA-19,
CA-21,
CA-22,
CA-24,
CA-25,
CA-26,
CA-40,
CA-44,
CA-46,
CA-49,
CA-50,
CA-52,
CO-05,
CO-06,
FL-04,
FL-05,
FL-07,
FL-08,
FL-10,
FL-14,
FL-15,
FL-18,
FL-24,
GA-01,
GA-03,
GA-06,
GA-07,
GA-09,
GA-11,
ID-02,
IL-06,
IL-11,
IL-13,
IL-15,
IL-16,
IL-18,
IL-19,
IN-03,
IN-04,
IN-05,
KS-01,
KS-04,
KY-01,
KY-02,
KY-04,
LA-01,
LA-04,
LA-05,
LA-06,
LA-07,
MD-01,
MD-06,
MI-02,
MI-03,
MI-04,
MI-06,
MI-08,
MI-10,
MI-11,
MI-12,
MN-03,
MS-01,
MS-03,
MO-02,
MO-07,
MO-08,
NE-02,
NV-02,
NY-23,
NC-03,
NC-05,
NC-06,
NC-10,
OH-03,
OH-04,
OH-05,
OH-08,
OH-12,
OH-14,
OK-01,
OK-03,
OK-04,
OK-05,
OR-02,
PA-05,
PA-09,
PA-16,
PA-19,
SC-01,
SC-02,
SC-03,
SC-04,
TN-01,
TN-02,
TN-03,
TX-01,
TX-05,
TX-10,
TX-11,
TX-12,
TX-19,
TX-21,
TX-24,
TX-26,
TX-31,
TX-32,
UT-01,
VA-01,
VA-02,
VA-04,
VA-05,
VA-07,
VA-10,
WA-04,
WA-05,
WV-02,
WI-05,
WI-06,
WY-AL,

Now obviously there is a long way to go and it is very early in the cycle but this is an impressive start!

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