Illinois' 14th Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 14th Congressional District of Illinois heldd an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012.
Incumbent Randy Hultgren won the election.[1]
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Primary: Illinois has a mixed-hybrid primary system. Voters can change parties each year but must declare a party affiliation at the polls. Depending on which party is chosen, the voter will then be counted as registered for that party. Voters may change party affiliation at polls or caucus.
Voter registration: Voters had to register to vote in the primary by February 21. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 9. A "grace period" was also available, allowing voter registration until three days before an election.[2][3]
- See also: Illinois elections, 2012
Incumbent: Heading into the election the incumbent was Randy Hultgren (R), who was first elected in 2010.
This was the first election using district maps based on data from the 2010 Census. Illinois' 14th Congressional District covers a part of northeastern Illinois, including Lake, McHenry, Kane, DeKalb, Kendall and Dupage counties.[4]
Candidates
General election candidates
Dennis Anderson- Randy Hultgren
- Mark Masrogiovanni (Write-in)
March 20, 2012, primary results
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- Note: Frank McClatchey filed to run in the 14th District, but withdrew from the race when Joe Walsh announced he would not run in the 14th District and instead ran for re-election in the 8th Congressional District.[8]
Election results
General Election
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Randy Hultgren Incumbent |
58.8% | 177,603 | |
| Democratic | Dennis Anderson | 41.2% | 124,351 | |
| Total Votes | 301,954 | |||
| Source: Illinois Board of Elections "2012 General Election Official Vote Totals" | ||||
Democratic Primary
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
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Dennis Anderson |
74.1% | 9,344 |
| Jonathon Farnick | 25.9% | 3,258 |
| Total Votes | 12,602 | |
Impact of redistricting
- See also: Redistricting in Illinois
With the 2011 redistricting, Illinois lost 1 of its current 19 House seats because the state's population failed to grow as fast as in other states.[9] Illinois has had 11 Republican congressmen and 8 Democrats since the November 2010 election.[9] The new map, designed by the dominant Democrats, could flip that advantage to as many as 12 Democrats and only six Republicans.[9]
The new 14th District was composed of the following percentages of voters of the old congressional districts.[10][11]
- 31 percent from the 8th Congressional District
- 2 percent from the 11th Congressional District
- 11 percent from the 13th Congressional District
- 41 percent from the 14th Congressional District
- 15 percent from the 16th Congressional District
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. Illinois' 14th District became more Republican because of redistricting.[12]
- 2012: 48D / 52R
- 2010: 52D / 48R
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. Illinois' 14th Congressional District has a PVI of R+6, which is the 162nd most Republican district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by Barack Obama (D), 51-49 percent over John McCain (R). In 2004, George W. Bush (R) won the district 61-39 percent over John Kerry (D).[13]
Campaign donors
2012
| Dennis Anderson (2012)[14] Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| Pre-Primary[15] | March 8, 2012 | $25,180.00 | $6,200.00 | $(22,075.66) | $9,304.34 | ||||
| April Quarterly[16] | April 15, 2012 | $9,304.34 | $17,311.00 | $(16,477.38) | $10,137.96 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $23,511 | $(38,553.04) | ||||||||
| Randy Hultgren (2012)[17] Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| Pre-Primary[18] | March 8, 2012 | $333,768.07 | $27,510.00 | $(198,251.35) | $163,026.72 | ||||
| April Quarterly[19] | April 13, 2012 | $175,755.72 | $103,808.00 | $(38,569.19) | $240,944.52 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $131,318 | $(236,820.54) | ||||||||
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, Randy Hultgren won election to the United States House of Representatives. He defeated Bill Foster (D), Daniel J. Kairis (G) and Doug Marks (I) in the general election.[20]
| U.S. House, Illinois District 14 General Election, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Randall M. "Randy" Hultgren |
51.3% | 112,369 | |
| Democratic | Bill Foster | 45% | 98,645 | |
| Green | Daniel J. Kairis | 3.6% | 7,949 | |
| Independent | Doug Marks | 0% | 50 | |
| Total Votes | 219,013 | |||
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2012
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2012
External links
- Campaign finance at OpenSecrets.org
Footnotes
- ↑ Politico, "2012 Election Map, Illinois"
- ↑ Illinois Board of Elections, "2012 Election Calendar," accessed July 21, 2012
- ↑ Illinois Board of Elections, "Registering to Vote in Illinois," accessed July 21, 2012
- ↑ June 2011 Illinois Redistricting, "Map" accessed July 23, 2012
- ↑ ABC News 7 "Election Results Primary 2012" accessed March 20, 2012
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Illinois State Board of Elections "Candidate List" accessed December 27, 2011
- ↑ Northwest Herald "Hultgren will seek re-election in 14th" accessed December 6, 2011
- ↑ McHenry County Blog, "Frank McClatchey Says Walsh’s Switch to 8th District Reason for Not Running for Congress" accessed March 15, 2012
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Chicago Tribune, "Odd geography in new Illinois congressional map:Millions of constituents will find their representative has changed" accessed February 22, 2012
- ↑ Moonshadow Mobile's CensusViewer, "Illinois' congressional districts 2001-2011 comparison"
- ↑ Labels & Lists, "VoterMapping software voter counts"
- ↑ "2011 Redistricting and 2012 Elections in Illinois," September 2012
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" accessed October 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "Dennis Anderson Summary Reports" accessed July 13, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "Pre-Primary" accessed July 13, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "April Quarterly" accessed July 13, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "Randy Hultgren Summary Reports" accessed July 13, 20112
- ↑ FEC Reports, "Pre-Primary" accessed July 13, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "April Quarterly" accessed July 13, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
