The 2006 United States Senate election in Wyoming was held on November 7, 2006. The primaries were on August 22, 2006, in which both candidates were unopposed. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Craig Thomas won re-election to a third term.

Results

Results

Candidates

• Dale Groutage
  Dale Groutage
  Dale Groutage is an engineer who unsuccessfully ran in 2006 as the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Wyoming against incumbent Senator Craig Thomas...
  
   (D), engineer
• Craig Thomas (R), incumbent U.S. Senator

Campaign

Thomas was a very popular two term incumbent, having a 68% approval rating. Despite doing very well in the polls, Thomas agreed to a debate. An October debate was sponsored by the Casper Star-Tribune

Casper Star-Tribune

The Casper Star-Tribune is a newspaper published in Casper, Wyoming.It is Wyoming's largest newspaper with a daily circulation of 30,745 and a Sunday circulation of 33,264 . The Star-Tribune is the only Wyoming newspaper to be distributed statewide, with delivery available even in some of the most...

 and KCWY

KCWY

KCWY-DT, channel 13 , is the NBC affiliate television station for Casper, Wyoming. The station also airs its programing on six low-powered satellites: KSWY-LP channel 29 in Sheridan, KCHY-LP channel 13 in Cheyenne, K14LK channel 14 in Laramie and K28HL-D channel 28 in Riverton...

 in Casper. Thomas said the nation has made progress in its energy policy, while Groutage said the nation's energy policy has failed because Congress has done more for special interests than the people.

Polling

Source	Date	Thomas (R)	Groutage (D)
Aspen Media & Market Research	October 18, 2006	70%	22%
Mason-Dixon	October 16, 2006	67%	26%
Rasmussen	July 20, 2006	59%	32%
Rasmussen	May 8, 2006	64%	25%

Results

Thomas won at least 59% of the vote in every county in Wyoming.