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Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 5th Congressional District of Oklahoma held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012. James Lankford 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 James Lankford (R), who was first elected in 2010.
This was the first election using district maps based on data from the 2010 Census. Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District is located in the central portion of the state and includes Oklahoma, Pottawatomie, and Seminole 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 | Tom Guild | 37.3% | 97,504 | |
| Republican |  James Lankford Incumbent |
58.7% | 153,603 | |
| Independent | Pat Martin | 2.1% | 5,394 | |
| Libertarian | Robert T. Murphy | 2% | 5,176 | |
| Total Votes | 261,677 | |||
| Source: Oklahoma Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
Impact of redistricting
- See also Redistricting in Oklahoma
The 5th District was re-drawn after the 2010 Census. The new district is composed of the following percentages of voters of the old congressional districts.[6][7]
- 1 percent from the 4th Congressional District
- 99 percent from the 5th Congressional District
Registration statistics
As of October 30, 2012, District 5 had the following partisan registration breakdown according to the Oklahoma State Election Board:
| Oklahoma Congressional District 5[8] | |||||||
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| Congressional District | District Total | Democrats | Republicans | Other & Unaffiliated | Advantage | Party Advantage | Change in Advantage from 2010 |
| District 5 | 403,972 | 172,196 | 176,704 | 55,072 | Republican | 2.62% | 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 5th District's partisan advantage did not change because of redistricting.[9]
- 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. Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District has a PVI of R + 13, which is the 72nd most Republican district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by John McCain (R), 59-41 percent over Barack Obama (D). In 2004, George W. Bush (R) won the district 64-36 percent over John Kerry (D).[10]
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.
James Lankford
| James Lankford (2012) 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 15, 2012 | $388,826.08 | $63,029 | $(28,811.09) | $423,043.99 | ||||
| July Quarterly[12] | July 15, 2012 | $460,132.82 | $88,525 | $(16,762.8) | $531,895.02 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $151,554 | $(45,573.89) | ||||||||
Tom Guild
| Tom Guild (2012) Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[13] | April 15, 2012 | $7,460.64 | $9,781.34 | $(9,875.49) | $7,366.49 | ||||
| July Quarterly[14] | July 15, 2012 | $20,101.10 | $9,688.79 | $(4,927.66) | $24,862.23 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $19,470.13 | $(14,803.15) | ||||||||
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, Lankford won election to the United States House of Representatives. He defeated Billy Coyle, Clark Duffe, and Dave White in the general election.[15]
| U.S. House of Representatives, Oklahoma Congressional District 5 Election, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | James Lankford |
62.5% | 123,236 | |
| Democratic | Billy Coyle | 34.5% | 68,074 | |
| Independent | Clark Duffe | 1.6% | 3,067 | |
| Independent | Dave White | 1.4% | 2,728 | |
| Total Votes | 197,105 | |||
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma, 2012
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2012
External links
- Tom Guild campaign website
- James Lankford campaign website
- Pat Martin campaign website
- Robert Murphy campaign website
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
- ↑ edmondsun.com Guild Ready to run for Congress December 8, 2011
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Oklahoma Secretary of State "Primary Candidate List"
- ↑ 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, "James Lankford April Quarterly," accessed August 6, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "James Lankford July Quarterly," accessed August 6, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Tom Guild April Quarterly," accessed August 6, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Tom Guild July Quarterly," accessed August 6, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
