Indiana's 4th Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 4th Congressional District of Indiana held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012.
Incumbent Todd Rokita (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 Todd Rokita (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 4th Congressional District was based primarily in western Indiana, and included Newton, Jasper, White, Cass, Carroll, Howard, Clinton, Boone, Hendricks, Putnam, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Fountain, Warren, Benton counties, and part of Morgan county.[3]
Candidates
General election candidates
May 8, 2012, primary results
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Election results
General Election
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Republican |  Todd Rokita Incumbent |
62% | 168,688 | |
| Democratic | Tara Nelson | 34.2% | 93,015 | |
| Libertarian | Benjamin J. Gehlhausen | 3.9% | 10,565 | |
| Total Votes | 272,268 | |||
| Source: Indiana Secretary of State "House of Representatives Election Results" | ||||
Democratic Primary
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
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Tara Nelson |
58.3% | 7,018 |
| Lester Terry Moore | 41.7% | 5,010 |
| Total Votes | 12,028 | |
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 4th District was composed of the following percentages of voters of the old congressional districts.[6][7]
- 9 percent from the 1st Congressional District
- 14 percent from the 2nd Congressional District
- 61 percent from the 4th Congressional District
- 7 percent from the 5th Congressional District
- 9 percent from the 8th 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 4th District became more Democratic because of redistricting.[8]
- 2012: 42D / 58R
- 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 4th Congressional District had a PVI of R+13, which was the 73rd most Republican district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by John McCain (R), 55-45 percent over Barack Obama (D). In 2004, George W. Bush (R) won the district 68-32 percent over John Kerry (D).[9]
Campaign donors
2012
| Tara Nelson (2012)[10] Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[11] | April 13, 2012 | $0.00 | $6,183.47 | $(6,146.23) | $37.24 | ||||
| Pre-Primary[12] | May 4, 2012 | $37.24 | $102.00 | $(137.13) | $2.11 | ||||
| July Quarterly[13] | July 15, 2012 | $2.11 | $6,713.68 | $(6,331.94) | $383.85 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $12,999.15 | $(12,615.3) | ||||||||
| Todd Rokita (2012)[14] 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 14, 2012 | $612,128.62 | $179,163.11 | $(71,604.60) | $719,687.13 | ||||
| Pre-Primary[16] | April 25, 2012 | $719,687.13 | $33,462.50 | $(9,214.35) | $743,935.28 | ||||
| July Quarterly[17] | July 13, 2012 | $743,935.28 | $142,223.37 | $(120,091.15) | $766,067.50 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $354,848.98 | $(200,910.1) | ||||||||
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, Todd Rokita won election to the United States House of Representatives. He defeated David Sanders (D) and John Duncan (L) in the general election.[18]
| U.S. House, Indiana District 4 General Election, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Todd Rokita |
68.6% | 138,732 | |
| Democratic | David Sanders | 26.3% | 53,167 | |
| Libertarian | John Duncan | 5.2% | 10,423 | |
| Total Votes | 202,322 | |||
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 Indiana Secretary of State "Primary Candidate List" accessed January 26, 2012
- ↑ The Hill.com "Rokita finds election law expertise useful as he adjusts to life on Hill" accessed December 15, 2011
- ↑ 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, "Tara Nelson Summary Reports" accessed July 17, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "April Quarterly" accessed July 17, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "Pre-Primary" accessed July 17, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "July Quarterly" accessed July 17, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "Todd Rokita Summary Reports" accessed July 17, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "April Quarterly" accessed July 17, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "Pre-Primary" accessed July 17, 2012
- ↑ FEC Reports, "July Quarterly" accessed July 17, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
