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Illinois' 15th Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 15th Congressional District of Illinois held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012.
Republican John Shimkus 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 Tim Johnson (R), who was first elected in 2000. Johnson announced he would run in the 13th District, before he eventually decided to retire in 2012.
This was the first election using district maps based on data from the 2010 Census. Illinois' 15th Congressional District is located in eastern Illinois. It includes Johnson, Pope, Hardin, Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, White, Wayne, Edwards, Wabash, Marion, Washington, Clinton, Madison, Bond, Gayette, Clay, Effingham, Shelby, Jasper, Cumberland, Crawford, Lawrence, Richland, Clark, Coles, Edgar, Douglas, Moultrie, Vermillion, Champaign and Ford counties.[4]
Candidates
General election candidates
March 20, 2012, primary results
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Election results
General Election
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Republican |  John Shimkus Incumbent |
68.6% | 205,775 | |
| Democratic | Angela Michael | 31.4% | 94,162 | |
| Total Votes | 299,937 | |||
| Source: Illinois Board of Elections "2012 General Election Official Vote Totals" | ||||
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.[6] Illinois has had 11 Republican congressmen and 8 Democrats since the November 2010 election.[6] The new map, designed by the dominant Democrats, could have flipped that advantage to as many as 12 Democrats and only six Republicans.[6]
The new 15th District was composed of the following percentages of voters of the old congressional districts.[7][8]
- 43 percent from the 15th Congressional District
- 1 percent from the 17th Congressional District
- 56 percent from the 19th 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' 15th District became more Republican because of redistricting.[9]
- 2012: 40D / 60R
- 2010: 41D / 59R
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' 15th Congressional District has a PVI of R+11, which is the 101st most Republican district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by John McCain (R), 56-44 percent over Barack Obama (D). In 2004, George W. Bush won the district 63-37 percent over John Kerry (D).[10]
Campaign donors
2012
| Angela Michael (2012)[11] Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[12] | March 5, 2012 | $0.00 | $7,394.00 | $(6,826.42) | $467.58 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $7,394 | $(6,826.42) | ||||||||
| John Shimkus (2012)[13] Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| Pre-Primary[14] | March 8, 2012 | $1,374,248.34 | $90,949.68 | $(167,515.04) | $130,682.98 | ||||
| April Quarterly[15] | April 13, 2012 | $1,300,682.98 | $188,495.94 | $(161,329.21) | $1,327,849.71 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $279,445.62 | $(328,844.25) | ||||||||
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, Tim Johnson won re-election to the United States House of Representatives. He defeated David Gill (D) in the general election.[16]
| U.S. House, Illinois District 15 General Election, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Timothy V. Johnson Incumbent |
64.3% | 136,915 | |
| Democratic | David Gill | 35.7% | 75,948 | |
| Total Votes | 212,863 | |||
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
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Illinois State Board of Elections "Candidate List" accessed December 27, 2011
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 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, "Angela Michael Summary Report" accessed July 13, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "April Quarterly" accessed July 13, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "John Shimkus Summary Reports" accessed July 13, 2012
- ↑ 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
