Colorado's 2nd Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 2nd Congressional District of Colorado held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012. Incumbent Jared Polis won the election.[1]
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Primary: Colorado 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 by March 5. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 9.[2]
- See also: Colorado elections, 2012
Incumbent: Heading into the election the incumbent was Jared Polis (D), who was first elected in 2008.
This was the first election using district maps based on data from the 2010 Census. The 2nd District is located in north-central Colorado and includes Larimer, Grand, Boulder, Gilpin, Summit, Eagle, Clear Creek and Jefferson 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 |  Jared Polis Incumbent |
55.7% | 234,758 | |
| Republican | Kevin Lundberg | 38.6% | 162,639 | |
| Libertarian | Randy Luallin | 3.3% | 13,770 | |
| Green | Susan Hall | 2.5% | 10,413 | |
| Total Votes | 421,580 | |||
| Source: Colorado Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
Republican Primary
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
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Kevin Lundberg |
53.3% | 21,547 |
| Eric Weissmann | 46.7% | 18,890 |
| Total Votes | 40,437 | |
Impact of redistricting
- See also: Redistricting in Colorado
The 2nd District was re-drawn after the 2010 Census. The new district is composed of the following percentages of voters of the old congressional districts.[8][9]
- 44 percent from the 2nd Congressional District
- 43 percent from the 4th Congressional District
- 13 percent from the 6th Congressional District
Registration statistics
As of October 22, 2012, District 2 had the following partisan registration breakdown according to the Colorado Secretary of State:
| Colorado Congressional District 2[10] | |||||||
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| Congressional District | District Total | Democrats | Republicans | Other & Unaffiliated | Advantage | Party Advantage | Change in Advantage from 2010 |
| District 2 | 390,759 | 131,651 | 123,677 | 135,431 | Democratic | 6.45% | -35.80% |
| "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. Colorado's 2nd District became more Republican because of redistricting.[11]
- 2012: 58D / 42R
- 2010: 61D / 39R
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. Colorado's 2nd Congressional District has a PVI of D+8, which is the 120th most Democratic district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by Barack Obama (D), 62-38 percent over John McCain (R). In 2004, John Kerry (D) won the district 56-44 percent over George W. Bush (R).[12]
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.
Jared Polis
| Jared Polis (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 13, 2012 | $165,315.41 | $322,121.02 | $(145,541.84) | $341,894.59 | ||||
| Pre-Primary[14] | June 14, 2012 | $341,894.59 | $113,422.18 | $(120,256.98) | $335,059.79 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $435,543.2 | $(265,798.82) | ||||||||
Kevin Lundberg
| Kevin Lundberg (2012) Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[15] | April 15, 2012 | $0 | $37,066 | $(13,507.82) | $23,558.18 | ||||
| Pre-Primary[16] | June 14, 2012 | $23,558.18 | $30,760.70 | $(41,037.82) | $13,281.06 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $67,826.7 | $(54,545.64) | ||||||||
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, Jared Polis won re-election to the United States House. He defeated Stephen Bailey, Jenna Goss and Curtis Harris in the general election.[17]
| U.S. House, Colorado District 2 General Election, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Jared Polis Incumbent |
57.4% | 148,720 | |
| Republican | Stephen Bailey | 37.9% | 98,171 | |
| American Constitution | Jenna Goss | 2.7% | 7,080 | |
| Libertarian | Curtis Harris | 2% | 5,056 | |
| Total Votes | 259,027 | |||
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, 2012
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2012
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Politico, "2012 House Race Results," accessed November 6, 2012
- ↑ Colorado Secretary of State, "Go Vote Colorado," accessed July 21, 2012
- ↑ Colorado November 2011 Redistricting Map, "Map" accessed July 23, 2012
- ↑ Daily Camera "U.S. Rep. Jared Polis to launch re-election campaign in Boulder," accessed March 10, 2012
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Colorado Statesman "Weissmann announces GOP candidate in CD 2," February 20, 2012
- ↑ Colorado Secretary of State "2012 Candidate List"
- ↑ Colorado Secretary of State "2012 Candidate List"
- ↑ Moonshadow Mobile's CensusViewer, "Colorado's congressional districts 2001-2011 comparison"
- ↑ Labels & Lists, "VoterMapping software voter counts"
- ↑ Colorado Secretary of State, "2012 Voter Registration Statistics," February 1, 2012
- ↑ "2011 Redistricting and 2012 Elections in Colorado," September 2012
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" accessed October 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Jared Polis April Quarterly," accessed July 9, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Jared Polis Pre-Primary," accessed July 9, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Kevin Lundberg April Quarterly," accessed July 9, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Kevin Lundberg Pre-Primary," accessed July 9, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
