Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 3rd Congressional District of Mississippi held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012. Gregg Harper was re-elected on November 6, 2012.[1]
| Candidate Filing Deadline | Primary Election | General Election |
|---|---|---|
Primary: Mississippi has an open primary system, meaning any registered voter can vote in any party's primary.
Voter registration: Voters had to register to vote in the primary by February 11, 2012. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 6, 2012.[2]
- See also: Mississippi elections, 2012
Incumbent: Heading into the election was incumbent Gregg Harper (R), who has served since 2009.
This was the first election using district maps based on data from the 2010 Census. Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District was located in the eastern portion of the state and included Oktibbeha, Noxubee, Kemper, Neshoba, Lauderdale, Newton, Scott, Rankin, Madison, Simpson, Smith, Lauderdale, Clarke, Jasper, Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Walthall, Pike, Amite, Franklin, Wilkinson, and Adams counties.[3]
Candidates
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General election candidates
- Gregg Harper
John Luke Pannell
- Note: Crystal C. Biggs (D) withdrew from the race in September 2012 after winning the primary, citing an illness. Vicki Slater was set to replace her on the ballot but declined to enter the race.[4]
Democratic Primary
- Crystal C. Biggs:15,291
[5]
- Crystal C. Biggs:15,291
Republican Primary
- Gregg Harper:78,667 Incumbent
- Robert Allen:7,025[5]
- Gregg Harper:78,667 Incumbent
Reform Party candidate
- John Luke Pannell: Reform [6]
- John Luke Pannell: Reform
Election results
General Election
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Gregg Harper Incumbent |
80% | 234,717 | |
| Reform | John Luke Pannell | 20% | 58,605 | |
| Total Votes | 293,322 | |||
| Source: Mississippi Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
Republican Primary
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
|
Gregg Harper Incumbent |
91.8% | 78,667 |
| Robert Allen | 8.2% | 7,025 |
| Total Votes | 85,692 | |
Impact of Redistricting
- See also: Redistricting in Mississippi
The 3rd District was re-drawn after the 2010 Census. The new district was composed of the following percentages of voters of the old congressional districts.[7][8]
- 2 percent from the 2nd Congressional District
- 95 percent from the 3rd Congressional District
- 3 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. Mississippi's 3rd District became less Republican because of redistricting.[9]
- 2012: 35D / 65R
- 2010: 34D / 66R
Cook Political Report's PVI
In 2012, Cook Political Report released its updated figures on the Partisan Voter Index, which measured each congressional district's partisanship relative to the rest of the country. Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District had a PVI of R+15 which was the 50th most Republican district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by John McCain (R), 61-39 percent over Barack Obama (D). In 2004, George W. Bush (R) won the district 66-34 percent over John Kerry (D).[10]
District history
2010
On November 2, 2010, Harper won re-election to the United States House of Representatives. He defeated Joel L. Gill (D), and Tracella Lou O’Hara Hill (Reform) in the general election.[11]
| U.S. House of Representatives, Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District, General Election, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Gregg Harper Incumbent |
68% | 132,393 | |
| Democratic | Joel L. Gill | 31.2% | 60,737 | |
| Reform | Tracella Lou O’Hara Hill | 0.8% | 1,586 | |
| Total Votes | 194,716 | |||
Campaign donors
Gregg Harper
| Gregg Harper (2012) Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[12] | March 31, 2012 | $157,404.45 | $111,190.00 | $(52,989.45) | $215,605.00 | ||||
| July Quarterly[13] | July 15, 2012 | $215,605.00 | $101,744.60 | $(81,561.40) | $235,788.20 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $212,934.6 | $(134,550.85) | ||||||||
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi, 2012
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2012
- United States Senate elections in Mississippi, 2012
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ ABC News, "2012 General Election Results," accessed November 6, 2012
- ↑ Mississippi Secretary of State, "2012 Elections Calendar," accessed July 25, 2012
- ↑ Mississippi Redistricting Map, "Map" accessed August 30, 2012
- ↑ Fox 10 TV "Democrats pick 2 for Congress races," September 6, 2012
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Fields fill up for Mississippi congressional races" January 13, 2012
- ↑ Mississippi Secretary of State "2012 Candidate Qualifying List" accessed January 24, 2012
- ↑ Moonshadow Mobile's CensusViewer, "Mississippi's congressional districts 2001-2011 comparison"
- ↑ Labels & Lists, "VoterMapping software voter counts"
- ↑ , "2011 Redistricting and 2012 Elections in Mississippi," September 2012
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" accessed October 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013 accessed December 3, 2011
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Gregg Harper April Quarterly," accessed July 2, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Gregg Harper July Quarterly," accessed October 1, 2012
