2010 Navajo Nation presidential election

Navajo Nation presidential election, 2010
← 2006 August 3, 2010 (Primary)
November 2, 2010 (Run off)		 2014–15 →
 
Nominee Ben Shelly Lynda Lovejoy
Primary election 7,715
16.02% 		17,399
36.13%
General election 33,734
52.50% 		30,520
47.50%
President before election

Joe Shirley, Jr.

 Elected President

Ben Shelly

Navajo Nation Elections
Background
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The Navajo Nation presidential election of 2010 was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Ben Shelly won the election.[1]

The general election was held between New Mexico State Senator Lynda Lovejoy and outgoing Navajo Nation Vice President Ben Shelly.

The primary election was held on August 3, 2010. Lynda Lovejoy won a plurality of the vote, becoming the first woman to do so. Ben Shelly came in second place. The primary election included nine other candidates. This was the first Navajo Nation presidential election in which both candidates, Lovejoy and Shelly, were residents of the Eastern part of the Navajo Nation.[2]

Ben Shelly became the first Vice President of the Navajo Nation to be elected president.[3] Had she been elected, Lynda Lovejoy would have become the first female president of the Navajo Nation.[4]

Previously, during the 2006 presidential election Joe Shirley Jr. had been re-elected to a second term over challenger Lynda Lovejoy. On July 9, 2010, the Navajo Nation Supreme Court ruled that Shirley could not seek a third consecutive term as president.[5]

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