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Illinois' 5th Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 5th Congressional District of Illinois held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012.
Incumbent Mike Quigley 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 Mike Quigley (D), who was first elected in 2009.
This was the first election using district maps based on data from the 2010 Census. Illinois' 5th Congressional District spans much of the North Side of the City of Chicago from Lake Michigan into the western suburbs. It includes Schiller Park, Franklin Park, River Grove, Elmwood Park, Northlake and Melrose Park. Wrigley Field and Chicago's Boystown are both located in this district, along with the Chicago neighborhoods of Lakeview, Uptown and Lincoln Park.
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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| Democratic |  Mike Quigley Incumbent |
65.7% | 177,729 | |
| Republican | Dan Schmitt | 28.6% | 77,289 | |
| Green | Nancy Wade | 5.7% | 15,359 | |
| Total Votes | 270,377 | |||
| 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.[5] Illinois has had 11 Republican congressmen and 8 Democrats since the November 2010 election.[5] The new map, designed by the dominant Democrats, could have flipped that advantage to as many as 12 Democrats and only six Republicans.[5]
The new 5th District was composed of the following percentages of voters of the old congressional districts.[6][7]
- 2 percent from the 3rd Congressional District
- 8 percent from the 4th Congressional District
- 70 percent from the 5th Congressional District
- 9 percent from the 6th Congressional District
- 4 percent from the 7th Congressional District
- 5 percent from the 9th Congressional District
- 2 percent from the 13th 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' 5th District became less Democratic because of redistricting.[8]
- 2012: 67D / 33R
- 2010: 70D / 30R
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' 5th Congressional District has a PVI of D+16, which is the 62nd most Democratic district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by Barack Obama (D), 71-29 percent over John McCain (R). In 2004, John Kerry (D) won the district 64-36 percent over George W. Bush (R).[9]
Campaign donors
2012
| Mike Quigley (2012)[10] Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| Pre-Primary[11] | March 8, 2012 | $509,684.82 | $67,854.82 | $(33,118.80) | $544,420.84 | ||||
| April Quarterly[12] | April 15, 2012 | $54,420.84 | $47,560.00 | $(70,728.47) | $521,252.37 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $115,414.82 | $(103,847.27) | ||||||||
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, Mike Quigley won re-election to the United States House of Representatives. He defeated David Ratowitz (R) and Matthew Reichel (G) in the general election.[13]
| U.S. House, Illinois District 5 General Election, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Mike Quigley Incumbent |
70.6% | 108,360 | |
| Republican | David Ratowitz | 25.4% | 38,935 | |
| Green | Matthew Reichel | 4% | 6,140 | |
| Total Votes | 153,435 | |||
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
- ↑ Illinois State Board of Elections "Candidate List" accessed December 27, 2011
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 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, "Mike Quigley Summary Reports" accessed July 7, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "Pre-Primary Reports" accessed July 7, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "April Quarterly" accessed July 7, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
