Virginia's 5th Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 5th Congressional District of Virginia held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012.
Robert Hurt was re-elected on November 6, 2012.[1]
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Primary: Virginia has an open primary system, in which any registered voter may choose which party's primary to vote in.
Voter registration: Voters had to register to vote in the primary by May 21, 2012. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 15, 2012.[2]
- See also: Virginia elections, 2012
Incumbent: Heading into the election the incumbent was Robert Hurt (R), who was first elected to the House in 2010. He unseated incumbent Tom Perriello, who has declared no intention to run in 2012.[3]
This was the first election which used new district maps based on 2010 Census data. Virginia's 5th Congressional District is located in the central portion of the state, stretching vertically across the state and includes Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Halifax, Charlotte, Prince Edward, Powhatan, Fluvanna, Charlottesville City, Buckinham, Appomattox, Greene, Madison, Fauquier, Rappahannock, Nelson, Campbell, Bedford, Bedford City, Franklin, Pittsylvania, Henry, and Danville City counties.[4]
Candidates
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General election candidates
June 12, 2012, primary results
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Election results
General Election
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Democratic | John Douglass | 42.9% | 149,214 | |
| Republican |  Robert Hurt Incumbent |
55.4% | 193,009 | |
| Green | Kenneth Hildebrandt | 1.6% | 5,500 | |
| Write-In | N/A | 0.1% | 388 | |
| Total Votes | 348,111 | |||
| Source: Virginia State Board of Elections "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
Impact of redistricting
- See also: Redistricting in Virginia
Following the results of the 2010 Census, Virginia was redistricted in order to more evenly distribute representation among the population.
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.[5][6]
- 3 percent from the 1st Congressional District
- 89 percent from the 5th Congressional District
- 3 percent from the 7th Congressional District
- 5 percent from the 10th 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. Virginia's 5th District partisan breakdown did not change because of redistricting.[7]
- 2012: 45D / 55R
- 2010: 45D / 55R
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. Virginia's 5th Congressional District has a PVI of R+6, which is the 170th most Republican district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by John McCain (R), 52-48 percent over Barack Obama (D). In 2004, George W. Bush (R) won the district 57-43 percent over John Kerry (D).[8]
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 the candidate's reports.
John Douglass
| John Douglass Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[9] | April 15, 2012 | $169,620.37 | $159,883.51 | $(100,519.37) | $228,984.51 | ||||
| July Quarterly[10] | July 14, 2012 | $194,474.53 | $143,151.83 | $(59,347.25) | $278,279.11 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $303,035.34 | $(159,866.62) | ||||||||
Robert Hurt
| Robert Hurt 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 14, 2012 | $466,905.28 | $201,391.33 | $(150,673.49) | $517,623.12 | ||||
| July Quarterly[12] | July 13, 2012 | $555,827.99 | $281,760 | $(94,208.56) | $743,379.43 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $483,151.33 | $(244,882.05) | ||||||||
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, Robert Hurt won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, defeating incumbent Thomas S. P. Perriello (D), Jeffrey A. Clark (I), and a write-in.[13]
| U.S. House of Representatives General Election, Virginia, Congressional District 5, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Robert Hurt |
50.8% | 119,560 | |
| Democratic | Thomas S. P. Perriello Incumbent | 47% | 110,562 | |
| Independent | Jeffrey A. Clark | 2.1% | 4,992 | |
| Write-in | 0.1% | 185 | ||
| Total Votes | 235,299 | |||
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, 2012
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2012
- United States Senate elections in Virginia, 2012
Footnotes
- ↑ ABC News, "2012 General Election Results," accessed November 6, 2012
- ↑ Virginia State Board of Elections, "2012 November Election Calendar," accessed July 7, 2012
- ↑ Daily Progress, "Perriello: No plans for 2012 campaign," accessed December 6, 2011
- ↑ Virginia Redistricting Map, "Map" accessed July 24, 2012
- ↑ Moonshadow Mobile's CensusViewer, "Virginia's congressional districts 2001-2011 comparison"
- ↑ Labels & Lists, "VoterMapping software voter counts"
- ↑ "2011 Redistricting and 2012 Elections in Virginia," September 2012
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" accessed October 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, John Douglass' April Quarterly report," accessed September 20, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "John Douglass' July Quarterly report," accessed September 20, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, Robert Hurt's April Quarterly report," accessed October 3, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Robert Hurt's July Quarterly report," accessed October 3, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
