United States Congress elections, 2012

A total of 468 seats in the U.S. Congress will be up for election on November 6, 2012.

Heading into the election, Democrats control the U.S. Senate while Republicans are the majority in the U.S. House. During this presidential election season, partisan dominance of both chambers of the U.S. Congress will be at stake.

U.S. Senate

See also: United States Senate elections, 2012

The 33 Class 1 U.S. Senate seats will be up for election. Of those 33 seats, 23 are currently held by Democrats and 10 by Republican senators. Democrats need to win 21 seats to retain their majority while the GOP needs to win 14 seats to win back the chamber.

U.S. Senate Partisan Breakdown
Party		As of November 2012	After the 2012 Election
	Democratic Party	51	53
	Republican Party	47	45
	Independent	2	2
Total		100	100

Defeated incumbents

Name:	Party:	Current office:
Richard Lugar	Republican	Indiana
Scott Brown	Republican	Massachusetts

U.S. House

See also: United States House of Representatives elections, 2012

All 435 seats of the U.S. House will be up for election.

U.S. House Partisan Breakdown
Party		As of November 2012	After the 2012 Election
	Democratic Party	193	201
	Republican Party	242	234
Total		435	435

Defeated incumbents

Name:	Party:	Current office:
Allen B. West	Republican	Florida, District 22
Ann Marie Buerkle	Republican	New York, District 25
Ben Chandler	Democratic	Kentucky, District 6
Benjamin Quayle	Republican	Arizona, District 3
Betty Sutton	Democratic	Ohio, District 13
Robert T. Schilling	Republican	Illinois, District 17
Brian Bilbray	Republican	California, District 50
Charles Bass	Republican	New Hampshire, District 2
Chip Cravaack	Republican	Minnesota, District 8
Cliff Stearns	Republican	Florida, District 6
Dan Lungren	Republican	California, District 3
David Rivera	Republican	Florida, District 25
Dennis J. Kucinich	Democratic	Ohio, District 10
Donald A. Manzullo	Republican	Illinois, District 16
Francisco Canseco	Republican	Texas, District 23
Frank Guinta	Republican	New Hampshire, District 1
Hansen Clarke	Democratic	Michigan, District 13
Howard Berman	Democratic	California, District 28
Jason Altmire	Democratic	Pennsylvania, District 4
Jean Schmidt	Republican	Ohio, District 2
Jeff Landry	Republican	Louisiana, District 3
Joe Baca	Democratic	California, District 43
Joe Walsh	Republican	Illinois, District 8
John Sullivan	Republican	Oklahoma, District 1
Judy Biggert	Republican	Illinois, District 13
Kathy Hochul	Democratic	New York, District 26
Larry Kissell	Democratic	North Carolina, District 8
Laura Richardson	Democratic	California, District 37
Leonard Boswell	Democratic	Iowa, District 3
Mark Critz	Democratic	Pennsylvania, District 12
Mary Bono Mack	Republican	California, District 45
Nan Hayworth	Republican	New York, District 19
Pete Stark	Democratic	California, District 13
Robert J. Dold	Republican	Illinois, District 10
Roscoe Bartlett	Republican	Maryland, District 6
Russ Carnahan	Democratic	Missouri, District 3
Sandy Adams	Republican	Florida, District 24
Silvestre Reyes	Democratic	Texas, District 16
Steve Rothman	Democratic	New Jersey, District 9
Tim Holden	Democratic	Pennsylvania, District 17

Congressional members retiring

U.S. Senate

As of Sunday, May 26, 2013, Ballotpedia staff have counted 10 total current U.S. Senate incumbents who are not running for re-election in the 2012 elections.

• 5 Democrats
• 4 Republicans
• 1 Independent

Name:	Party:	Current office:
Ben Nelson	Democratic	Nebraska
Daniel Akaka	Democratic	Hawaii
Herb Kohl	Democratic	Wisconsin
Jeff Bingaman	Democratic	New Mexico
Jim Webb	Democratic	Virginia
Joe Lieberman	Non-partisan	Connecticut
Jon Kyl	Republican	Arizona
Kay Bailey Hutchison	Republican	Texas
Kent Conrad	Democratic	North Dakota
Olympia Snowe	Republican	Maine

U.S. House

As of Sunday, May 26, 2013, Ballotpedia staff have counted 42 total current U.S. House incumbents who are not running for re-election in the 2012 elections.

• 23 Democrats
• 19 Republicans

Name:	Party:	Current office:
Barney Frank	Democratic	Massachusetts, District 4
Bob Filner	Democratic	Mayor of San Diego
Bob Turner	Republican	New York, District 9
Brad Miller	Democratic	North Carolina, District 13
Charles A. "Charlie" Gonzalez	Democratic	Texas, District 20
Christopher S. Murphy	Democratic	Connecticut
Connie Mack	Republican	Florida, District 14
Dale E. Kildee	Democratic	Michigan, District 5
Dan Boren	Democratic	Oklahoma, District 2
Dan Burton	Republican	Indiana, District 5
David Dreier	Republican	California, District 26
Dennis Cardoza	Democratic	California, District 18
Denny Rehberg	Republican	U.S. House, Montana, At-large
Ed Towns	Democratic	New York, District 10
Elton Gallegly	Republican	California, District 24
Gary Ackerman	Democratic	New York, District 5
Geoff Davis	Republican	Kentucky, District 4
Heath Shuler	Democratic	North Carolina, District 11
Jay Inslee	Democratic	Governor of Washington
Jeff Flake	Republican	Arizona
Jerry F. Costello	Democratic	Illinois, District 12
Jerry Lewis	Republican	California, District 41
Joe Donnelly	Democratic	Indiana
John Olver	Democratic	Massachusetts, District 1
Lynn Woolsey	Democratic	California, District 6
Martin Heinrich	Democratic	New Mexico
Maurice Hinchey	Democratic	New York, District 22
Mazie K. Hirono	Democratic	Hawaii
Mike Pence	Republican	Governor of Indiana
Mike Ross	Democratic	Arkansas, District 4
Norm Dicks	Democratic	Washington, District 6
Rick Berg	Republican	North Dakota, At-Large, District
Ron Paul	Republican	Texas, District 14
Shelley Berkley	Democratic	Nevada, District 1
Steve Austria	Republican	Ohio, District 7
Steven C. LaTourette	Republican	Ohio, District 14
Sue Wilkins Myrick	Republican	North Carolina, District 9
Tammy Baldwin	Democratic	Wisconsin
Timothy V. Johnson	Republican	Illinois, District 15
W. Todd Akin	Republican	Missouri, District 2
Todd Russell Platts	Republican	U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 19
Wally Herger	Republican	California, District 2

See also

• U.S. House elections, 2012
• U.S. Senate elections, 2012