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Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 4th Congressional District of Oklahoma held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012. Tom Cole was re-elected on November 6, 2012.[1]
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Primary: Oklahoma has a closed primary system, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members.
Voter registration: Voters had to register to vote in the primary June 1. For the August 28 runoff, the voter registration deadline was August 3. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 12.[2]
- See also: Oklahoma elections, 2012
Incumbent: Heading into the election the incumbent was Tom Cole, who was first elected in 2002.
This was the first election using district maps based on data from the 2010 Census. Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District is located in the south-central portion of the state and includes Tillman, Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens, Grady, CAnadian, Cleveland, McClan, Garvin, Murray, Carter, Love, Marshall, Pontotoc counties.[3]
Candidates
General election candidates
June 26, 2012 primary results
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Election results
General election
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Democratic | Donna Marie Bebo | 27.6% | 71,846 | |
| Republican |  Tom Cole Incumbent |
67.9% | 176,740 | |
| Independent | RJ Harris | 4.5% | 11,745 | |
| Total Votes | 260,331 | |||
| Source: Oklahoma Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
Democratic Primary
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
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Donna Marie Bebo |
58.3% | 11,935 |
| Bert Smith | 41.7% | 8,532 |
| Total Votes | 20,467 | |
Republican Primary
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
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Tom Cole Incumbent |
87.7% | 22,840 |
| Gary Caissie | 12.3% | 3,195 |
| Total Votes | 26,035 | |
Impact of redistricting
- See also Redistricting in Oklahoma
The 4th District was re-drawn after the 2010 Census. The new district is composed of the following percentages of voters of the old congressional districts.[7][8]
- 99 percent from the 4th Congressional District
- 1 percent from the 5th Congressional District
Registration statistics
As of October 30, 2012, District 4 had the following partisan registration breakdown according to the Oklahoma State Election Board:
| Oklahoma Congressional District 4[9] | |||||||
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| Congressional District | District Total | Democrats | Republicans | Other & Unaffiliated | Advantage | Party Advantage | Change in Advantage from 2010 |
| District 4 | 409,015 | 193,675 | 163,850 | 51,490 | Democratic | 18.20% | N/A |
| "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. Oklahoma's 4th District's partisan advantage did not change because of redistricting.[10]
- 2012: 30D / 70R
- 2010: 30D / 70R
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. Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District has a PVI of R + 18, which is the 30th most Republican district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by John McCain (R), 66-34 percent over Barack Obama (D). In 2004, George W. Bush (R) won the district 67-33 percent over John Kerry (D).[11]
Campaign contributions
Candidates for Congress were required to file up to seven main reports with the Federal Election Commission during the 2012 elections season. Below are candidate reports.
Tom Cole
| Tom Cole (2012) 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 15, 2012 | $848,892.34 | $65,083.66 | $(57,568.61) | $856,407.39 | ||||
| July Quarterly[13] | July 15, 2012 | $921,412.67 | $113,172.49 | $(71,222.59) | $963,362.57 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $178,256.15 | $(128,791.2) | ||||||||
Donna Marie Bebo
| Donna Marie Bebo (2012) Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[14] | April 15, 2012 | $0.00 | $4,933.50 | $(4,043.22) | $890.28 | ||||
| July Quarterly[15] | July 15, 2012 | $204.62 | $2,205.12 | $(2,236.59) | $173.15 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $7,138.62 | $(6,279.81) | ||||||||
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, Tom Cole (R) won re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was unopposed in the general election.[16]
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, 2012
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2012
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ ABC News, "2012 General Election Results," accessed November 6, 2012
- ↑ Oklahoma State Election Board, "Oklahoma Elections 2012," accessed July 26, 2012
- ↑ Oklahoma Redistricting Map, "Map" accessed August 9, 2012
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Oklahoma Secretary of State "Primary Candidate List"
- ↑ Oklahoma Elections Division "Election Results" accessed June 26, 2012
- ↑ Oklahoma State Board of Elections "Election Results" accessed June 26, 2012
- ↑ Moonshadow Mobile's CensusViewer, "Oklahoma's congressional districts 2001-2011 comparison"
- ↑ Labels & Lists, "VoterMapping software voter counts"
- ↑ Oklahoma State Election Board, "Voter Registration Reports, 2012," July 13, 2012
- ↑ "2011 Redistricting and 2012 Elections in Oklahoma," September 2012
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" accessed October 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Tom Cole April Quarterly," accessed August 5, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Tom Cole July Quarterly," accessed August 5, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Donna Marie Bebo April Quarterly," accessed August 5 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Donna Marie Bebo July Quarterly," accessed August 5, 2012
- ↑ Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010
