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RaceTracker 2012 Congressional Election Dashboard
2012 House report  · 2012 Senate report

	House: 435 seats			Senate: 33 seats
	GOP	Dems	Total	GOP	Dems	Total
Confirmed primary challenges	5	2	7	5	5	10
Possible primary challenges	0	0	0	0	0	0
Open seats*	16	21	41	3	6	102

1. Includes Joe Lieberman, who is retiring from his Conn. senate seat.

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  Contents 1 2012 election 2 2010 election 3 2008 election 4 2008 Presidential election results 5 Articles and resources

  
  

  2012 election

  (Methodology)
  Race status [edit race status]

  
  

  Incumbent:	Tom Rooney
  Incumbent running?	Yes, for a different seat
  Primary challenge?	N/a

  Candidates [edit candidate list]
  Links to names in blue have existing profiles, red links need someone to start one.

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Tom Rooney	Republican	Running for another House seat	Media Story Source	February 9, 2012	Running in FL-17
  Jim Horn	Democratic	Out of race	Campaign Website Source	April 24, 2012	2010 Candidate Running in FL-18
  Paige Kreegel	Republican	Out of race	Facebook Source	April 24, 2012	Running in FL-19
  Allen West	Republican	Out of race	Media Story Source	February 9, 2012	Current FL-22 Congressman Running in FL-18
  David Lutrin	Democratic	Out of race	Facebook Source	April 24, 2012	Running for State House
  Joe Arnold	Republican	Out of race	Media Story Source	April 24, 2012	Okeechobee County School Board Member Running in FL-17
  Vern Buchanan	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	April 23, 2012	Current FL-13 Congressman
  Keith Fitzgerald	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	Press Release Source	April 23, 2012	Former State Rep

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results [edit election results]
  

  2012 primary winners	2012 general election winner
  Vern Buchanan, Keith Fitzgerald	TBD

  
  

  
  

  2010 election

  [edit 2010 election info with form]

  Candidates

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2010 primary election winners	2010 general election winner

  
  

  2008 election

  [2008 election edit info with form]
  Incumbent:

  
  Candidates

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2008 primary election winners	2008 general election winner

  2008 Presidential election results

  	Republican	Democratic
  2000	53% George W. Bush	47% Al Gore
  2004	54% George W. Bush	46% John Kerry
  2008	52% John McCain	47% Barack Obama

  
  

  Articles and resources

  See also

  • Index for all the Florida congressional districts and candidates.
  • The full House 2012 elections report.
  • The RaceTracker homepage.

  External articles

  Elections.DailyKos posts tagged "FL-16" (link)

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  Campaign contribution methodology: Information is updated daily from the Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org), which downloads their data from the Federal Election Commission on the first weekday of each work week. Candidates must have filed a report with the FEC to show up in the widget and inactive candidates are screened out by CRP.

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