United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, 2012

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	2012 U.S. Senate Elections

The 2012 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Maine took place on November 6, 2012. Voters elected two candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's two congressional districts.

Candidate Filing Deadline	Primary Election	General Election
March 15, 2012	June 12, 2012	November 6, 2012

Primary: Maine has a closed primary system, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election was limited to registered party members.

Voter registration: There was no deadline for in-person voter registration, but the cut-off for registration by mail was October 16.^[1]

See also: Maine elections, 2012

The Center for Voting and Democracy (Fairvote) projected that Democrats would win both districts.^[2]

Primary competitiveness

See also: National contested primary average during the 2012 U.S. congressional elections

Maine tied with Kentucky, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, and West Virginia for having the 22nd most competitive congressional primaries in 2012, with 50% of major party primaries having been contested (2 out of 4). The national average was 54.31%.

Two U.S. House incumbents sought re-election in Maine in 2012. 0 of those 2 (0%) faced a primary challenger. Nationwide, 200 out of the 386 incumbents seeking re-election faced a primary challenger (51.81%).

Partisan breakdown

Heading into the November 6 election, the Democratic Party held each of the two Congressional seats from Maine.

Members of the U.S. House from Maine -- Partisan Breakdown
Party		As of November 2012	After the 2012 Election
	Democratic Party	2	2
	Republican Party	0	0
Total		2	2

Incumbents

Heading into the 2012 election, the incumbents for the two congressional districts were:

Name	Party	District
Chellie Pingree	Democratic	1
Mike Michaud	Democratic	2

Margin of victory for winners

There were a total of 2 seats up for election in 2012 in Maine. The following table shows the margin of victory for each district winner, which is calculated by examining the percentage difference between the top-two vote getters. If the race was uncontested, the margin of victory is listed as 100%.

District	Winner	Margin of Victory	Total Vote	Top Opponent
Maine, District 1	Chellie Pingree	28.3%	380,715	Jonathan Courtney
Maine, District 2	Mike Michaud	15.7%	343,908	Kevin Raye

General election candidates

District	General Election Candidates	Incumbent	2012 Winner	Partisan Switch?
1st	Chellie Pingree Jonathan Courtney	Chellie Pingree	Chellie Pingree	No
2nd	Mike Michaud Kevin Raye	Mike Michaud	Mike Michaud	No

Candidates

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