2012 Election Results

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Massachusetts [+] BALLOT [PDF][State Primary September 6]

Registered Voters: 4,342,841
U.S. Senate: In the highly contested U.S. Senate race, consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren (D) defeated Sen. Scott Brown (R) by 1,696,346 votes (53.74%) to 1,458,048 (46.19%) and 2,159 for all others.
U.S. House: Reps. John Olver (D), first elected in June 2001, and Rep. Barney Frank (D), first elected in 1980, retired.  Massachusetts lost one seat due to redistricting, and the delegation went from 10D, 0R to 9D, 0R.  The closest race occurred in the 6th CD, where Rep. John Tierney (D) defeated Richard Tisei (R) by 180,942 votes to 176,612 and 16,739 for Daniel Fishman (L).  In the 4th CD, after competitive primaries in both parties, Joseph P. Kennedy III (D) defeated Sean Bielat (R).
State Legislature: Democrats maintained huge majorities in both chambers.  All 160 House seats and all 40 Senate seats were up.  The House went from 127D, 33R to 131D, 29R and the Senate from 35D, 4R, 1v to 36D, 4R.
Ballot Measures: There were three ballot questions.  Voters approved Question 1 on motor vehicle repairs, narrowly defeated Question 2 , the death with dignity initiative by 51.1% to 48.9% and approved Question 3 on medical marijuana.
...2010 midterms +

Democrats pick up U.S. Senate seat.

Michigan [+] BALLOT [PDF][State Primary August 7]

Registered Voters: 7,454,553.
U.S. Senate: Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D) won a third term, defeating former Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R) by 58.80% to 37.98% and Lib., Grn., UST, NLP and w/in candidates getting the rest.
U.S. House: Michigan, which lost one seat due to reapportionment, had several contests of note. 
- In the new 14th CD (parts of Detroit city, Wayne County and Oakland County), Rep. Gary Peters (D) defeated Rep. Hansen Clarke (D) in the Aug. 7 primary.  Peters then won in the general election by a more than 5 to 1 margin.
- In the 5th CD (Flint) Rep. Dale Kildee (D), first elected in 1976, retired.  His nephew Dan Kildee (D), president of the Center for Community Progress, defeatied businessman Jim Slesak (R) by a more than 2 to 1 margin to succeed him In the new 5th CD.
- In the new 11th CD (parts of Oakland County and Wayne County) the spectacle of Rep. Thad McCotter (R)'s botched re-election campaign created an open seat.  McCotter announced on July 6, 2012 his resignation from Congress after a "nightmarish month and a half."  The petitions that McCotter's campaign submitted for the Aug. 7 primary ballot had numerous irregularities and were well short of the required number of valid signatures; McCotter initially said he would run a write-in campaign but on June 2 announced an end to that effort.  David Curson (D) won the Sept. 5, 2012 special primary election in the old 11th CD for the partial term, and served Nov. 13, 2012 through Jan. 2, 2013.  Running for the full term in the new 11th CD Kerry Bentivolio (R) defeated Dr. Syed Taj (D) by 50.76% to 44.36%. 
-In the 1st CD (Upper Peninsula), freshman Rep. Dan Benishek (R) won his rematch with former state Rep. Gary McDowell (D) by 1,881 votes or 167,060 (48.14%) to 165,179 (47.60%).
The balance goes from 9R, 6D  >  8R, 6D, 1v  >  8R, 7D  >  9R, 5D.
State Legislature: Republicans kept control both Houses of the State Legislature.  All 110 House seats were up; the 38 Senate seats were not.  The House went from 63R, 47D to 59R, 51D (Senate stayed at 26R, 12D).
Ballot Measures: Voters rejected all six state proposals covering topic ranging from collective bargaining to a limit on the enactment of new taxes.
...Redistricting  +    ...2010 midterms +

State loses one U.S. House seat.  Democrats lose one U.S. House seat.

Minnesota [+] BALLOT [PDF][State Primary August 14]

Registered Voters: 3,084,025.
U.S. Senate: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (DFL) won a second term, defeating State Rep. Kurt Bills (R), a high school economics teacher, by 65.23% to 30.53%; also running were Stephen Williams (Indep.), a farmer from Austin, Tim Davis (Grass.) and Michael Cavlan (MOP).
U.S. House: All eight incumbents faced challengers.  In the 8th CD former Rep. Richard Nolan (DFL) defeated freshman Rep. Chip Cravaack (R) by 54.28% to 45.39%.  In the 6th CD Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) narrowly fended off a challenge from businessman Jim Graves (DFL) by 179,240 (50.47%) to 174,944 (49.26%).
State Legislature: Heading into Election Day, Republicans controlled both chambers (House 72R, 62D and Senate 37R, 29D, 1v).  All 134 House seats and all 67 Senate seats were up.  Democrats flipped both chambers (House 73D, 61R and Senate 39D, 28R).
Ballot Measures: On November 6 voters rejected two controversial legislatively referred constitutional amendments (MNSOS).  Amendment 1, which would have recognized marriage as solely between one man and one woman, failed by 47.44% to 52.56%: Minnesota for Marriage  |  Minnesotans United for All Families. 
Amendment 2 which would have required photo id to vote, failed by 46.16% to 53.84%:
Voter ID for Minnesota and ProtectMyVote.com  |  Our Vote Our Future. 
...Redistricting +    ...2010 midterms +

Democrats pick up one U.S. House seat and two legislative chambers.

Mississippi [+] BALLOT [PDF][State and Presidential Primary March 13]

Registered Voters: 2,984,926.
U.S. Senate: Sen. Roger Wicker (R) won a full six-year term, defeating octogenarian, veteran, and Oktibbeha County Democratic Party Chairman Albert N. Gore Jr. (D) by 57.16% to 40.55% and a bit more than 1-percent each to Thomas Cramer (Const.) and Shawn O'Hara (Ref.).
U.S. House: The four incumbents were all re-elected with more than 60-percent of the vote.
...Redistricting +    ...2010 midterms +

Missouri [+] BALLOT [PDF][State Primary August 7]

Registered Voters: 4,180,659.
Governor: Gov. Jay Nixon (D), seeking a second term, defeated businessman Dave Spence (R) and Jim Higgins (L) by 54.8% to 42.5% and 2.7%.
U.S. Senate: Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) had been seen as one of the most vulnerable incumbent Senators.  Rep. Todd Akin (R) defeated businessman John Brunner and former Treasurer Sarah Steelman in the Aug. 7 Republican primary.  Akin's remarks about rape in an Aug. 19 inteview led to intense pressure for him to withdraw, but he refused.  McCaskill won by a 54.8% to 39.1% margin, with 6.1% to Jonathan Dine (L). 
U.S. House: Reapportionment cost Missouri one seat.  In the Aug. 7 primary Rep. Lacy Clay (D) defeated Rep. Russ Carnahan (D) in the new 1st CD (City of St. Louis).  Rep. Todd Akin's run for U.S. Senate  opened up the 2nd CD (St. Louis County); Ann Wagner (R), former ambassador and RNC vice chair, defeated Glenn Koenen (D), a former non-profit executive, by 60.1% to 37.1% with the remainder going to Bill Slantz (L) and Anatol Zorikova (Const.).  The balance of the delegation goes from 6R, 3D to 6R, 2D.
State Legislature: All 163 House seats and 17 of 34 Senate seats were up.  Republicans kept huge majorities in both chambers; the House went from 106R, 56D and 1I to 110R, 53D and Senate from 26R, 8D to 24R, 10D. 
Ballot Measures: Missouri voters decided four statewide ballot measures.  They approved a constitutional amendment on selection of judges; Prop. A concerning administration of the St. Louis police department; and Prop. E requiring a vote of the legislature or the people to establish a state-based health insurance exchange.  Prop. B (+), which would have increased cigarette and tobacco taxes (the current 17 cents per pack is lowest in the nation) lost by 50.8% to 49.2%.
...Redistricting +    ...2010 midterms +

State loses one U.S. House seat.  Democrats lose one U.S. House seat.

Post-election: On Dec. 3, 2012 Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R) announced she would resign in Feb. 2013 to become CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA); she resigned Jan. 22, 2013.  The special election was set for June 4.

Montana [+] BALLOT [PDF][State Primary June 5]

Registered Voters: 681,608.
Governor: In the race to succeed term-limited Gov. Schweitzer, Attorney General Steve Bullock (D)/Adjutant General, General John Walsh (ret.) defeated former U.S. Rep. Rick Hill (R)/state Sen. Jon Sonju, and Ron Vandevender (L)/Marc Mulcahy by 236,450 votes to 228,879 and 18,160.
U.S. Senate: Sen. Jon Tester (D) surprised many observers in fending off a challenge from Rep. Denny Rehberg (R) and Dan Cox (L) by 236,123 votes (48.58%) to 218,051 (44.86%) and 31,892 (6.56%).  More votes were tallied in this race (486,066) than in the presidential race (483,932).
U.S. House: In the race to succeed Rep. Rehberg, Steve Daines (R), an executive at RightNow Technologies and the 2008 Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, defeated Senate Minority Whip Kim Gillan (D), and Dave Kaiser (L) by 255,468 votes (53.25%) to 204,939 (42.72%) and 19,333 (4.03%).
State Legislature: All 100 House seats and 25 of 50 Senate seats were up.  Republicans kept control of both chambers of the state legislature; the House went from 68R, 32D to 63R, 37D and the Senate from 28R, 22D to 27R, 23D.
Ballot Measures: Montanans voted on a number of hot button issues.  They approved by wide margins LR 120 (parental notification prior to an abortion for a minor), LR 121 (denying certain state-funded services to illegal aliens), and LR 122 (prohibiting the state or federal government from mandating the purchase of health insurance); and also approved IR 124 an initiative referendum enacting a new medical marijuana program, and I 166 (corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights).  MTSOS.
...2010 midterms +

Nebraska [+] BALLOT [PDF][State Primary May 15]

Registered Voters: 1,163,871.
U.S. Senate: In the campaign for the open seat held by Sen. Ben Nelson (D), state Sen. Deb Fischer (R), the surprise GOP nominee, defeated former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey (D) by 455,593 votes (57.77%) to 332,979 (42.23%).
U.S. House: All three members were re-elected; the 2nd CD race was close as Rep. Lee Terry (R) defeated Douglas County Treasurer John W. Ewing Jr. (D) by 133,964 votes (50.80%) to 129,767 (49.20%).
State Legislature: 26 seats in the unicameral legislature were up.
Ballot Measures: Amendments 1 (impeachment of a civil officer) and 2 (right to hunt, fish and to harvest wildlife) pass; Amendments 3 (change term limits from two to three consecutive terms) and 4 (increase salaries of Members of the Legislature) failed.
...Redistricting +    ...2010 midterms +

Republicans pick up U.S. Senate seat.

Nevada [+] BALLOT [PDF][State Primary June 12]

Registered Voters: 1,257,621.
U.S. Senate: In a close race, appointed Sen. Dean Heller (R) defeated Rep. Shelley Berkley (D) by 457,656 votes (45.87%) to 446,080 (44.71%), with 48,792 (4.89%) to David Lory Vanderbeek (IAP) and 45,277 (4.54%) to None of These Candidates.
U.S. House: In the open 1st CD (Las Vegas), former Rep. Dina Titus (D), who was defeated in her 2010 re-election bid, defeated Chris Edwards (R), who served 25 years in the Navy by 63.57% to 31.53%; also on the ballot were Bill Pujonis (L) and Stan Vaughan (IAP).  In the new 4th CD (the mid-section of the state), the state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford (D) defeated Danny Tarkanian (R), who runs a real estate investment firm, by 50.11 to 42.11%; also on the ballot were Floyd Fitzgibbons (IAP) and Joe Silvestri (L).  Reps. Amodei and Heck were re-elected.  The balance of the delegation goes from 2R, 1D to 2R, 2D.
State Legislature: Democrats kept control of both chambers.  All 42 House seats and 12 Senate seats were up.  The Assembly went from 26D, 16R to 27D, 15R; and the Senate from 10D, 9R, 2v to 11D, 10R.
Ballot Measures: By a margin of 53.97% to 46.03% voters approved Question No. 1 to amend the Constitution to provide for the Legislature to convene special sessions. 

[Note: On April 21, 2011 Sen. John Ensign (R) announced (+) he would resign effective May 3.  On April 27, 2011 Gov. Sandoval announced his intention to appoint then Rep. Dean Heller to fill the Senate seat and Heller was sworn in on May 9, 2011.  In the special election for the House seat on September 13, Mark Amodei (R) won.]

...Redistricting +    ...2010 midterms +

State gains one U.S. House seat.  Democrats pick up one U.S. House seat.

New Hampshire [+] BALLOT [PDF][State Primary September 11]

Registered Voters: 905,957 (includes 99,299 Election Day registrations)
Governor: Gov. John Lynch (D) announced on Sept. 15, 2011 that he would not seek re-election.  Former State Sen. Majority Leader Maggie Hassan (D) defeated attorney Ovide Lamontagne (R), who has run in several statewide races, and frequent candidate John Babiarz (L) by 54.61% to 42.52% and 2.77%.
U.S. House: In both districts there were rematches of the 2010 races, and in both districts the Democrat prevailed.  In the 1st CD, former Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D) defeated Rep. Frank Guinta (R) by 171,650 votes (49.75%) to 158,659 (45.99%) and 14,521 (4.21%) for Brendan Kelly (L).  In the 2nd CD, Ann McLane Kuster (D), who had lost by 3,551 votes in 2010, defeated Rep. Charlie Bass (R) by 169,275 to 152,977 and 14,936 for Hardy Macia (L). The balance goes from 2R, 0D to 2D, 0R.  Including the two U.S. Senators, New Hampshire becomes the first state with an all female congressional delegation.
State Legislature: Republicans controlled both chambers of the General Court (House 288R 102D, 10v acc. NCSL or 293R, 103D, 2I, 2v according to Ballotpedia and Senate 19R, 5D).  All seats were up.  Democrats achieved dramatic gains, taking control of the House 221D, 179R and narrowing the margin in the Senate to 13R, 11D.
Ballot Measures: The New Hampshire Income Tax Amendment, a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment which would have placed a ban on personal income taxes in the state constitution, failed to achieve the two-thirds support required; the vote was  57.1% to 42.9%.
...2010 midterms +

Democrats pick up two U.S. House seats and one legislative chamber.

New Jersey [+] BALLOT [PDF][State and Presidential Primary June 5]

Registered Voters: 5,497,322.
U.S. Senate: Sen. Bob Menendez (D) defeated state Sen. Joe Kyrillos (R), by more than half a million votes (1,987,680 to 1,329,534); a total of 11 candidates were on the ballot including Kenneth Kaplan (L) and Ken Wolski (G).
U.S. House: In the 10th CD, Rep. Donald Payne Sr. died in March; a special primary election was held on June 5, and the general election for the remainder was held on Nov. 6.  Newark City Council President Donald Payne Jr. (D) won the partial term and the full term.  New Jersey lost one seat due to re-apportionment.  In the new 9th CD there was a member on member primary; Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D) defeated Rep. Steve Rothman (D).  The balance went from 7D, 6R to 6D, 6R.
Ballot Measures: Voters approved Question 1, the "Building Our Future Bond Act."  The other measure was a narrow technical question.
...Redistricting +     ...2010 midterms +

 State loses one U.S. House seat.  Democrats lose one U.S. House seat.

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