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Arizona's 5th Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 5th Congressional District of Arizona held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012.
Republican Matt Salmon was elected on November 6, 2012.[1]
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Primary: Arizona's primary system is considered semi-closed. Unaffiliated voters may choose which party's primary they will vote in, but voters registered with a party can only vote in that party's primary.[2]
Voter registration: Voters were required to register to vote in the primary by July 30. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 9.[3]
- See also: Arizona elections, 2012
Incumbent: Heading into the election the incumbent was David Schweikert (R), who was first elected in 2010. Due to redistricting, Schweikert ran for, and won, re-election in the 6th District in 2012.
This was the first election using district maps based on data from the 2010 Census. The 5th District is one of five primarily urban districts centered around Phoenix, Arizona.[4]
Candidates
General election candidates
August 28, 2012, primary results
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Election results
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Republican |  Matt Salmon |
67.2% | 183,470 | |
| Democratic | Spencer Morgan | 32.8% | 89,589 | |
| Total Votes | 273,059 | |||
| Source: Arizona Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
Impact of redistricting
- See also: Redistricting in Arizona
The 5th District was re-drawn after the 2010 Census. The new district is composed of the following percentages of voters of the old congressional districts.[7][8]
- 100 percent from the 6th Congressional District
Registration statistics
As of October 22, 2012, District 5 had the following partisan registration breakdown according to the Arizona Secretary of State:
| Arizona Congressional District 5[9] | |||||||
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| Congressional District | District Total | Democrats | Republicans | Other & Unaffiliated | Advantage | Party Advantage | Change in Advantage from 2010 |
| District 5 | 407,255 | 88,377 | 181,194 | 137,684 | Republican | 105.02% | 67.30% |
| "Party advantage" is the percentage gap between the two major parties in registered voters. "Change in advantage" is the spread in difference of party advantage between 2010 and 2012 based on the congressional district number only. | |||||||
District partisanship
FairVote's Monopoly Politics 2012 study
- See also: FairVote's Monopoly Politics 2012
In 2012, FairVote did a study on partisanship in the congressional districts, giving each a percentage ranking (D/R) based on the new 2012 maps and comparing that to the old 2010 maps. Partisanship figures from 2010 relating to the incumbent were unavailable for this district due to the seat being open.[10]
- 2012: 33D / 67R
- 2010: Unavailable
Cook Political Report's PVI
In 2012, Cook Political Report released its updated figures on the Partisan Voter Index, which measures each congressional district's partisanship relative to the rest of the country. Arizona's 5th Congressional District has a PVI of R+16, which is the 41st most Republican district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by John McCain (R), 63-37 percent over Barack Obama (D). In 2004, George W. Bush (R) won the district 66-34 percent over John Kerry (D).[11]
Campaign contributions
Candidates for Congress were required to file up to seven main reports with the Federal Election Commission during the 2012 elections season. Below are candidate reports.
Kirk Adams
| Kirk Adams (2012) Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[12] | April 15, 2012 | $267,252.70 | $133,313.34 | $(105,039.78) | $295,526.26 | ||||
| July Quarterly[13] | July 15, 2012 | $295,526.26 | $61,636 | $(194,863.82) | $162,298.44 | ||||
| Pre-Primary[14] | August 16, 2012 | $162,298.44 | $107,591 | $(163,804.36) | $106,085.08 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $302,540.34 | $(463,707.96) | ||||||||
Matt Salmon
| Matt Salmon (2012) Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[15] | April 13, 2012 | $304,875.47 | $238,216.33 | $(74,450.65) | $468,641.15 | ||||
| July Quarterly[16] | July 13, 2012 | $468,641.15 | $110,076.67 | $(242,734.13) | $335,983.69 | ||||
| Pre-Primary[17] | August 16, 2012 | $335,983.69 | $72,238.80 | $(285,185.73) | $123,036.76 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $420,531.8 | $(602,370.51) | ||||||||
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, David Schweikert won election to the United States House. He defeated Harry E. Mitchell and Nick Coons in the general election.[18]
| U.S. House, Arizona District 5 General Election, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | David Schweikert |
52% | 110,374 | |
| Democratic | Harry E. Mitchell Incumbent | 43.2% | 91,749 | |
| Libertarian | Nick Coons | 4.8% | 10,127 | |
| Total Votes | 212,250 | |||
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2012
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2012
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ ABC News, "2012 General Election Results," accessed November 6, 2012
- ↑ Fair Vote, "Congressional and Presidential Primaries: Open, Closed, Semi-Closed, and 'Top Two,'" accessed January 2, 2014
- ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "Important Dates," accessed June 29, 2012
- ↑ Arizona Redistricting, "Map" accessed July 7, 2012
- ↑ "Kyl Endorses Kirk Adams in Arizona Race to Succeed Flake," RollCall.com, April 28, 2011
- ↑ "Matt Salmon seeks to replace Jeff Flake in U.S. House," Azcentral.com, April 19, 2011
- ↑ Moonshadow Mobile's CensusViewer, "Arizona's congressional districts 2001-2011 comparison"
- ↑ Labels & Lists, "VoterMapping software voter counts"
- ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "State of Arizona Registration Report," April 23, 2012
- ↑ "2011 Redistricting and 2012 Elections in Arizona," September 2012
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" accessed October 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Kirk Adams April Quarterly," accessed August 23, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Kirk Adams July Quarterly," accessed August 23, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Kirk Adams Pre-Primary," accessed August 23, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Matt Salmon April Quarterly," accessed August 23, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Matt Salmon July Quarterly," accessed August 23, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Matt Salmon Pre-Primary," accessed August 23, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
