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Kansas' 4th Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 4th Congressional District of Kansas held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012.
Incumbent Mike Pompeo (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: Kansas has a mostly closed primary system, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members. In Kansas, however, Independent voters may choose to vote in the Democratic primary.
Voter registration: Voters had to register to vote in the primary by July 17. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 16.[2]
- See also: Kansas elections, 2012
Incumbent: Heading into the election the incumbent was Mike Pompeo (R), who was first elected in 2010. He won re-election on November 6, 2012.
This was the first election using district maps based on data from the 2010 Census. Kansas' 3rd Congressional District was located in eastern Kansas and encompassed Wyandotte and Johnson counties, which included the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, and portions of Douglas County, which includes part of Lawrence. The district included Kansas City and the surrounding suburbs of Overland Park, Lenexa, Shawnee, and Olathe.[3]
Candidates
General election candidates
August 7, 2012, primary results
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Note: Libertarian candidate Thomas Jefferson legally changed his name from Jack Talbert to Thomas Jefferson on July 23, 2012. |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Republican |  Mike Pompeo Incumbent |
62.2% | 161,094 | |
| Democratic | Robert Leo Tillman | 31.6% | 81,770 | |
| Libertarian | Thomas Jefferson | 6.2% | 16,058 | |
| Total Votes | 258,922 | |||
| Source: Kansas Secretary of State "2012 General Election Official Vote Totals" | ||||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
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Robert Tillman |
70.8% | 11,224 |
| Esau Freeman | 29.2% | 4,618 |
| Total Votes | 15,842 | |
Impact of redistricting
- See also: Redistricting in Kansas
The 4th District was re-drawn after the 2010 Census. The new district was composed of the following percentages of voters of the old congressional districts.[8][9]
- 5 percent from the 1st Congressional District
- 95 percent from the 4th 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. Kansas' 4th District did not have any partisan change because of redistricting.[10]
- 2012: 37D / 63R
- 2010: 37D / 63R
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. Kansas' 4th Congressional District had a PVI of R+14, which was the 64th most Republican district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by John McCain (R), 60-40 percent over Barack Obama (D). In 2004, George W. Bush (R) won the district 65-35 percent over John Kerry (D).[11]
Campaign donors
2012
Candidates for Congress were required to file up to seven main reports with the Federal Election Commission during the 2012 elections season. Below are Robert Leon Tillman and Mike Pompeo's reports.
| Robert Leon Tillman (2012)[12] Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| Pre-Primary Report[13] | August 1, 2012 | $34,060.99 | $0.00 | $(0.00) | $34,060.99 | ||||
| July Quarterly[14] | July 11, 2012 | $6,340.29 | $29,852.00 | $(2,131.30) | $34,060.99 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $29,852 | $(2,131.3) | ||||||||
Note: The Federal Elections Commission had no record of Robert Tillman's April Quarterly Report.[15]
| Mike Pompeo (2012)[16] Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[17] | April 13, 2012 | $741,567.41 | $201,448.04 | $(58,962.77) | $884,052.68 | ||||
| July Quarterly[18] | July 12, 2012 | $884,052.68 | $263,633.35 | $(67,379.34) | $1,080,306.69 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $465,081.39 | $(126,342.11) | ||||||||
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, Mike Pompeo won election to the United States House of Representatives. He defeated Raj Goyle (D), Shawn Smith (L) and Susan G. Ducey (Reform) in the general election.[19]
| U.S. House, Kansas District 4 General Election, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Mike Pompeo |
58.8% | 119,575 | |
| Democratic | Raj Goyle | 36.5% | 74,143 | |
| Libertarian | Shawn Smith | 2.3% | 4,624 | |
| Reform | Susan G. Ducey | 2.5% | 5,041 | |
| Total Votes | 203,383 | |||
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, 2012
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2012
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Politico, "2012 Election Map, Kansas"
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2012 Election Calendar," accessed July 25, 2012
- ↑ Kansas Redistricting Map, "Map" accessed August 30, 2012
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kansas Secretary of State Elections Division "Candidate List" accessed June 21, 2012
- ↑ AP Election Results "Kansas - Summary Vote Results," accessed August 15, 2012
- ↑ Huffington Post "Jack Talbert, Kansas Congressional Candidate, Changes Name To Thomas Jefferson" accessed July 24, 2012
- ↑ Topeka Capital Journal "House hopeful changes name to Thomas Jefferson" accessed July 24, 2012
- ↑ Moonshadow Mobile's CensusViewer, "Kansas' congressional districts 2001-2011 comparison"
- ↑ Labels & Lists, "VoterMapping software voter counts"
- ↑ "2011 Redistricting and 2012 Elections in Kansas," September 2012
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" accessed October 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Robert Leon Tillman's Summary Report," accessed October 1, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Pre-Primary Report" accessed October 1, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "July Quarterly" accessed October 1, 2012
- ↑ Federal Elections Commission, "Financial Reports," accessed October 1, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Mike Pompeo Summary Report," accessed October 1, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "April Quarterly" accessed October 1, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "July Quarterly" accessed October 1, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013 accessed November 12, 2011
