Michigan's 14th Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 14th Congressional District of Michigan held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2012.
Democrat Gary Peters won the election.[1]
| Candidate Filing Deadline | Primary Election | General Election |
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Primary: Michigan has an open primary system, meaning any registered voter can vote in any party's primary.
Voter registration: Voters were required to register to vote in the primary by July 9. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 9.[2]
- See also: Michigan elections, 2012
Incumbent: Hansen Clarke (D), who was first elected to represent the 13th District in 2010, ran for re-election in the new 14th District. Incumbent John Conyers, Jr., who was first elected to the 14th District in 1992 and previously represented the 1st District from 1965 until 1993, ran in the 13th District.
This was the first election using district maps based on data from the 2010 Census. Michigan's 14th Congressional District was located in the southeastern region of the lower peninsula of Michigan encompassing the northwest side of Detroit, the suburbs located immediately west of the city, the Downriver suburbs adjacent to the Detroit River and the enclaves of Highland Park and Hamtramck. It included Wayne and Oakland counties.[3]
Candidates
General election candidates
August 7, 2012, primary results
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Impact of Redistricting
- See also Redistricting in Michigan
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. Michigan's 14th District became more Democratic because of redistricting.[9]
- 2012: 77D / 23R
- 2010: 53D / 47R
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. Michigan's 14th Congressional District had a PVI of D+27, which was the 25th most Democratic district in the country. In 2008, this district was won by Barack Obama (D), 82-18 percent over John McCain (R). In 2004, John Kerry (D) won the district 76-24 percent over George W. Bush (R).[10]
Election results
General Election
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Democratic |  Gary Peters Incumbent |
82.3% | 270,450 | |
| Republican | John Hauler | 15.6% | 51,395 | |
| Libertarian | Leonard Schwartz | 1.2% | 3,968 | |
| Green | Douglas Campbell | 0.9% | 2,979 | |
| Total Votes | 328,792 | |||
| Source: Michigan Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
Democratic Primary
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
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Gary Peters |
47% | 41,230 |
| Hansen Clark | 35.2% | 30,847 |
| Brenda Lawrence | 13.3% | 11,644 |
| Mary Waters | 3.3% | 2,919 |
| Bob Costello | 1.2% | 1,027 |
| Total Votes | 87,667 | |
Issues
Media
Below is a campaign ad from Republican candidate John Hauler.
John Hauler
John Hauler, "Let's Work Together"[11] |
Campaign donors
Gary Peters
| Gary Peters (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] | March 31, 2012 | $1,048,760.99 | $277,816.73 | $(96,573.82) | $1,230,003.90 | ||||
| July Quarterly[13] | June 30, 2012 | $1,230,003.90 | $316,022.79 | $(732,977.24) | $813,049.45 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $593,839.52 | $(829,551.06) | ||||||||
District history
2010
On November 2, 2010, Conyers won election to the United States House of Representatives. He defeated Don Ukrainec (R), Richard J. Secula (L), and Marc J. Sosnowski (U.S. Taxpayers) in the general election.[14]
| U.S. House of Representatives, Michigan's 14th Congressional District, General Election, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | John Conyers, Jr. Incumbent |
76.8% | 115,511 | |
| Republican | Don Ukrainec | 19.9% | 29,902 | |
| Libertarian | Richard J. Secula | 1.2% | 1,859 | |
| U.S. Taxpayers | Marc J. Sosnowski | 2.1% | 3,206 | |
| Total Votes | 150,478 | |||
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, 2012
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2012
- United States Senate elections in Michigan, 2012
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Politico, "2012 Election Map, Michigan"
- ↑ Michigan Secretary of State, "2012 Registration Deadlines and Election Dates," accessed June 29, 2012
- ↑ Michigan Redistricting Map, "Map" accessed August 31, 2012
- ↑ Secretary of State "2012 Unofficial Michigan Primary Candidate List" May 31, 2012
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Peters to challenge fellow Dem Clarke in 14th District; Conyers to run in 13th" September 8, 2011
- ↑ Secretary of State "2012 Unofficial Michigan Primary Candidate List" May 31, 2012
- ↑ Secretary of State "2012 Unofficial Michigan Primary Candidate List" May 31, 2012
- ↑ Secretary of State "2012 Unofficial Michigan Primary Candidate List" May 31, 2012
- ↑ "2011 Redistricting and 2012 Elections in Michigan," September 2012
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" accessed October 2012
- ↑ YouTube channel
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Gary Peters April Quarterly," accessed August 1, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Gary Peters July Quarterly," accessed August 1, 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013 accessed December 23, 2011
