United States House of Representatives elections in Wyoming, 2012

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	; ; Wyoming's At-Large Congressional District
	General Election Date ; November 6, 2012
	Primary Date ; August 21, 2012
	District history • Candidates
	November 6 Election Winner: ; Cynthia Lummis
	Incumbent prior to election: ; Cynthia Lummis
	Wyoming U.S. House Elections At-Large District
	2012 U.S. Senate Elections

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The 2012 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Wyoming took place on November 6, 2012. Voters elected one candidate to serve in the U.S. House from the state's At-Large Congressional District.

Incumbent Cynthia Lummis (R) won re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012.^[1]

Candidate Filing Deadline	Primary Election	General Election
June 1, 2012	August 21, 2012	November 6, 2012

Primary: Wyoming has a closed primary system, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members.

Voter registration: Voters were required to register to vote in the primary by August 6, 2012. For the general election, the registration deadline was October 22, 2012.^[2]

See also: Wyoming elections, 2012

Incumbent: The incumbent heading into the election was Cynthia Lummis (R), who was first elected in 2008. She was re-elected on November 6, 2012.

Wyoming has a single At-Large Congressional District, which is made up of the entire state.

The state of Wyoming's at-large Congressional district.

Heading into the November 6 election, the Republican Party held the one Congressional seat from Wyoming.

Members of the U.S. House from Wyoming -- Partisan Breakdown
Party		As of November 2012	After the 2012 Election
	Democratic Party	0	0
	Republican Party	1	1
Total		1	1

The Center for Voting and Democracy (Fairvote) projected that Republicans would remain in control of the one congressional seat.^[3]

Primary competitiveness

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

Wyoming tied with Vermont for having the least competitive congressional primaries in 2012, with 0% of major party primaries having been contested (0 out of 2). The national average was 54.31%.

Wyoming's one U.S. House incumbent sought re-election in 2012. He did not face a challenger in the primary. Nationwide, 200 out of the 386 incumbents seeking re-election faced a primary challenger (51.81%).

Margin of victory for winners

There was a total of 1 seat up for election in 2012 in Wyoming. 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
Wyoming, At-Large, District	Cynthia Lummis	45.1%	241,205	Chris Henrichsen

General election candidates

District	General Election Candidates	Incumbent	2012 Winner	Partisan Switch?
At-large	Chris Henrichsen Cynthia Lummis Richard Brubaker Daniel Clyde Cummings Don Willis	Cynthia Lummis	Cynthia Lummis	No

Candidates

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General election candidates

Chris Henrichsen

Cynthia Lummis