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Kentucky's 1st Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 1st Congressional District of Kentucky held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012.
Ed Whitfield was re-elected on November 6, 2012.[1]
| Candidate Filing Deadline | Primary Election | General Election |
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Primary: Kentucky has a closed primary system, meaning the selection of a party's candidates in a primary election is limited to registered members of that party.
Voter registration: Voters had to register to vote in the primary by April 23. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 9.[2]
- See also: Kentucky elections, 2012
Incumbent: Heading into the election the incumbent was Ed Whitfield (R), who was first elected in 1994.
This was the first election using district maps based on data from the 2010 Census. At the time of the election, Kentucky's 1st Congressional District was located in western Kentucky and stretched across the southern portion of the state. It included Fulton, Hickman, Carlisle, Ballard, McCracken, Graves, Calloway, Marshall, Lyon, Livington, Trigg, Caldwell, Crittenden, Christian, Todd, Logan, Simpson, Allen, Monroe, Metcalfe, Adair, Taylor, Marion, Casey, Russell, Clinton, Ohio, Muhlenberg, Hopkins, McLean, Webster, Henderson, Webster and Union counties.[3]
Candidates
General election candidates
May 22, 2012, primary results
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Election results
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Republican |  Ed Whitfield Incumbent |
69.6% | 199,956 | |
| Democratic | Charles Kendall Hatchett | 30.4% | 87,199 | |
| Total Votes | 287,155 | |||
| Source: Kentucky Board of Elections "2012 General Election Official Vote Totals" | ||||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
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Charles Kendall Hatchett |
59.1% | 19,127 |
| James Buckmaster | 40.9% | 13,239 |
| Total Votes | 32,366 | |
Impact of redistricting
- See also: Redistricting in Kentucky
The Rose Institute of State and Local Government said the new congressional map favored incumbents, which included four Republicans and two Democrats. The 1st District was extended to include Republican-leaning counties from the 2nd District.[6]
The addition of northern Ohio County and Marion County added more registered Democrats. A Republican-leaning county, Taylor County, was added to the 1st District, and another, Butler County, moved to the 2nd District.[7] The 1st District also acquired 462 voters in Washington County.[7]
Registration statistics
As of October 24, 2012, District 1 had the following partisan registration breakdown according to the Kentucky State Board of Elections:
| Kentucky Congressional District 1[8] | |||||||
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| Congressional District | District Total | Democrats | Republicans | Other & Unaffiliated | Advantage | Party Advantage | Change in Advantage from 2010 |
| District 1 | 495,944 | 302,993 | 166,171 | 26,780 | Democratic | 82.34% | -4.09% |
| "Party advantage" is the percentage gap between the two major parties in registered voters. "Change in advantage" is the spread in difference of party advantage between 2010 and 2012 based on the congressional district number only. | |||||||
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. Kentucky's 1st District saw no change in partisanship due to redistricting.[9]
- 2012: 34D / 66R
- 2010: 34D / 66R
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. Kentucky's 1st Congressional District had a PVI of R+14, which was the 57th most Republican district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by John McCain (R), 63-37 percent over Barack Obama (D). In 2004, George W. Bush (R) won the district 64-36 percent over John Kerry (D).[10]
Campaign donors
Candidates for Congress were required to file up to seven main reports with the Federal Election Commission during the 2012 elections season. Below are Ed Whitfield's reports.
| Ed Whitfield (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] | April 14, 2012 | $1,484,038.58 | $509,251.26 | $(85,357.13) | $1,907,932.71 | ||||
| July Quarterly[13] | July 12, 2012 | $1,895,483.16 | $204,920.78 | $(99,664.22) | $2,000,739.72 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $714,172.04 | $(185,021.35) | ||||||||
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, Ed Whitfield won re-election to the United States House of Representatives. He defeated Charles Kendall Hatchett (D) in the general election.[14]
| U.S. House, Kentucky District 1 General Election, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Ed Whitfield Incumbent |
71.2% | 153,840 | |
| Democratic | Charles Kendall Hatchett | 28.8% | 62,090 | |
| Total Votes | 215,930 | |||
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, 2012
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2012
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ ABC News, "2012 General Election Results," accessed November 6, 2012
- ↑ Kentucky State Board of Elections, "Voter Information Guide," accessed June 29, 2012
- ↑ Kentucky Redistricting Map, "Map" accessed July 24, 2012
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kentucky Secretary of State "Candidate Filings" accessed January 31, 2012
- ↑ WLKY "Election Results" accessed May 22, 2012
- ↑ The Rose Institute of State and Local Government, "Kentucky Passes Congressional Maps," accessed August 20, 2024
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedredistrict - ↑ Kentucky State Board of Elections, "Congressional Voter Registration Statistics," June 11, 2012
- ↑ , "2011 Redistricting and 2012 Elections in Kentucky," September 2012
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" accessed October 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Ed Whitfield 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
