United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, 2012

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The 2012 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Kansas took place on November 6, 2012. Voters elected four candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's four congressional districts.

Candidate Filing Deadline	Primary Election	General Election
June 11, 2012	August 7, 2012	November 6, 2012

Primary: Kansas has a mostly closed primary system, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members. In Kansas, however, Independent voters may choose to vote in the Democratic primary.

Voter registration: Voters had to register to vote in the primary by July 17. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 16,^[1]

See also: Kansas elections, 2012

The Center for Voting and Democracy (Fairvote) projected that Democrats would win 0 districts while Republicans would win all four seats.^[2]

Primary competitiveness

See also: National contested primary average during the 2012 U.S. congressional elections

Kansas had the 44th most competitive congressional primaries in 2012, with 25% of major party primaries having been contested (2 out of 8). The national average was 54.31%.

Four U.S. House incumbents sought re-election in Kansas in 2012. 0 of those 4 (0%) faced a primary challenger. Nationwide, 200 out of the 386 incumbents seeking re-election faced a primary challenger (51.81%).

Partisan breakdown

Heading into the November 6 election, the Republican Party held all four of the Congressional seats from Kansas.

Members of the U.S. House from Kansas -- Partisan Breakdown
Party		As of November 2012	After the 2012 Election
	Democratic Party	0	0
	Republican Party	4	4
Total		4	4

Incumbents

Heading into the 2012 election, the incumbents for the four congressional districts were:

Name	Party	District
Kevin Yoder	Republican	3
Lynn Jenkins	Republican	2
Mike Pompeo	Republican	4
Tim Huelskamp	Republican	1

Margin of victory for winners

There were a total of 4 seats up for election in 2012 in Kansas. The following table shows the margin of victory for each district winner, which is calculated by examining the percentage difference between the top-two vote getters. If the race was uncontested, the margin of victory is listed as 100%.

District	Winner	Margin of Victory	Total Vote	Top Opponent
Kansas, District 1	Tim Huelskamp	100%	211,337	Unopposed
Kansas, District 2	Lynn Jenkins	18.3%	293,718	Tobias Schlingensiepen
Kansas, District 3	Kevin Yoder	36.9%	293,762	Joel Balam
Kansas, District 4	Mike Pompeo	30.6%	258,922	Robert Leo Tillman

General election candidates

This is a map of the congressional districts of Kansas before and after the 2010 redistricting. The image also includes the partisan breakdown of the districts that are close in registration figures.

District	General Election Candidates	Incumbent	2012 Winner	Partisan Switch?
1st	Tim Huelskamp	Tim Huelskamp	Tim Huelskamp	No
2nd	Tobias Schlingensiepen Lynn Jenkins Dennis Hawver	Lynn Jenkins	Lynn Jenkins	No
3rd	Kevin Yoder Joel Balam	Kevin Yoder	Kevin Yoder	No
4th	Robert Leon Tillman Mike Pompeo Thomas Jefferson	Mike Pompeo	Mike Pompeo	No

Candidates

Note: Election results were added on election night as races were called. Vote totals will be added when official election results are certified. For more information about Ballotpedia's election coverage plan, click here. If you find any errors in this list, please email: Geoff Pallay.