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Indiana's 3rd Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 3rd Congressional District of Indiana held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012.
Incumbent Marlin Stutzman (R) won re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012.[1]
| Candidate Filing Deadline | Primary Election | General Election |
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Primary: Indiana has an open primary system, in which any registered voter can choose which party's primary to vote in, without having to be a member of that party.
Voter registration: Voters had to register to vote in the primary by April 9. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 9.[2]
- See also: Indiana elections, 2012
Incumbent: Heading into the election the incumbent was Marlin Stutzman (R), who was first elected in 2010. He was re-elected on November 6, 2012.
This was the first election using district maps based on data from the 2010 Census. Indiana's 3rd Congressional District was based in Fort Wayne and took in the northeastern part of the state, including Goshen. LaGrange, Steuben, DeKalb, Noble, Kosclusko, Whitley, Allen, Adams, Wells, Huntington, Jay, Blackford counties, and part of Randolph county were included in this district.[3]
Candidates
General election candidates
May 8, 2012, primary results
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- Note: David Kolbe withdrew from the primary on February 11, 2012[6]
Election results
General Election
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Republican |  Marlin Stutzman Incumbent |
67% | 187,872 | |
| Democratic | Kevin Boyd | 33% | 92,363 | |
| Total Votes | 280,235 | |||
| Source: Indiana Secretary of State "House of Representatives Election Results" | ||||
Democratic Primary
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
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Kevin Boyd |
47.8% | 5,985 |
| Tommy Schrader | 13.5% | 1,694 |
| Stephen Hope | 11.5% | 1,441 |
| Justin Kuhnle | 10.1% | 1,265 |
| David Sowards | 9.4% | 1,172 |
| John Forrest Roberson | 7.7% | 966 |
| Total Votes | 12,523 | |
Race background
Republican incumbent Marlin Stutzman was endorsed by the National Right to Life Political Action Committee.[7]
Impact of redistricting
- See also: Redistricting in Indiana
The newly-drawn map was designed to produce seven districts that were favorable to the Republican Party and two that were favorable to the Democratic Party.
The new 3rd District was composed of the following percentages of voters of the old congressional districts.[8][9]
- 82 percent from the 3rd Congressional District
- 5 percent from the 5th Congressional District
- 13 percent from the 6th 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. Indiana's 3rd District did not change because of redistricting.[10]
- 2012: 40D / 60R
- 2010: 40D / 60R
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. Indiana's 3rd Congressional District had a PVI of R+13, which was the 68th most Republican district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by John McCain (R), 57-43 percent over Barack Obama (D). In 2004, George W. Bush (R) won the district 68-32 percent over John Kerry (D).[11]
Campaign donors
2012
| Marlin Stutzman (2012)[12] Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[13] | April 15, 2012 | $178,548.63 | $106,371.00 | $(83,570.86) | $201,348.77 | ||||
| Pre-Primary[14] | April 26, 2012 | $201,348.77 | $25,455.00 | $(13,710.86) | $213,092.91 | ||||
| July Quarterly[15] | July 15, 2012 | $213,092.91 | $129,442.31 | $(68,250.57) | $274,284.65 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $261,268.31 | $(165,532.29) | ||||||||
| Kevin Boyd (2012) Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[16] | April 15, 2012 | $0.00 | $9,173.48 | $(3,743.89) | $5,429.59 | ||||
| Pre-primary[17] | May 8, 2012 | $5,429.59 | $2,305.00 | $(0.00) | $7,734.59 | ||||
| July Quarterly[18] | July 15, 2012 | $7,734.59 | $11,257.35 | $(11,375.62) | $7,616.32 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $22,735.83 | $(15,119.51) | ||||||||
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, Marlin Stutzman won election to the United States House of Representatives. He defeated Thomas Hayhurst (D), Scott Wise (L), Tom Metzger (I) and Wes Stephens (I) in the general election.[19]
Stutzman was elected in a November 2, 2010, special election to fill the rest of resigning Representative Mark Souder's term. He was simultaneously elected to a full two year term to expire in 2013.
| U.S. House, Indiana District 3 General Election, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Marlin A. Stutzman |
62.8% | 116,140 | |
| Democratic | Thomas Hayhurst | 33.1% | 61,267 | |
| Libertarian | Scott Wise | 4.1% | 7,631 | |
| Independent | Tom Metzger | 0% | 10 | |
| Independent | Wes Stephens | 0% | 1 | |
| Total Votes | 185,049 | |||
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2012
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2012
- United States Senate elections in Indiana, 2012
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Politico, "2012 Election Map, Indiana"
- ↑ Indiana Elections Division, "2012 Calendar Brochure," accessed July 24, 2012
- ↑ Indiana Redistricting Map, "Map" accessed July 24, 2012
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Indiana Secretary of State "Primary Candidate List" accessed January 26, 2012
- ↑ Saturday Gazette-Mail "New Ind. congressional districts clear Legislature" accessed December 15, 2011
- ↑ Journal Gazette, "Stutzman lacks GOP contest: Most potent Democratic challenger also calls it quits" accessed March 3, 2012
- ↑ Marlin Stutzman, "National Right to Life Announces Endorsement of Stutzman" accessed May 1, 2012
- ↑ Moonshadow Mobile's CensusViewer, "Arizona's congressional districts 2001-2011 comparison"
- ↑ Labels & Lists, "VoterMapping software voter counts"
- ↑ "2011 Redistricting and 2012 Elections in Indiana," September 2012
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" accessed October 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "Marlin Stutzman Summary Reports" accessed July 14, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "Stutzman April Quarterly" accessed July 14, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "Stutzman Pre-Primary" accessed July 14, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "Stutzman July Quarterly" accessed October 8, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Kevin Boyd April Quarterly" accessed October 8
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Kevin Boyd Pre-primary" accessed October 8
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Kevin Boyd July Quarterly" accessed October 8
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
