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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	Jesse Jackson Jr
  Incumbent running?	Yes
  Primary challenge?	No primary challenge for incumbent.
  Cook Political Report Partisan Voting Index	Non-competitive seat
  Cook Political Report Race Classification	Non-competitive seat

  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
  Jesse Jackson Jr	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	FEC Source	July 12, 2011
  Isaac Hayes	Republican	Out of race	IL SOS Source	January 3, 2012	2010 Candidate Did Not File
  Deborah Halvorson	Democratic	Out - lost primary	Chicago Tribune Source	April 12, 2012	Former IL-02 Congresswoman
  Anthony Beale	Democratic	Out of race	IL SOS Source	January 3, 2012	Did Not File
  James Taylor Sr	Republican	Out - lost primary	Chicago Tribune Source	April 12, 2012
  Brian Woodworth	Republican	Confirmed candidate	IL SOS Source	December 27, 2011

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results [edit election results]
  

  2012 primary winners	2012 general election winner
  Brian Woodworth, Jesse Jackson Jr	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	17% George W. Bush	83% Al Gore
  2004	16% George W. Bush	84% John Kerry
  2008	10% John McCain	90% Barack Obama

  
  

  Articles and resources

  See also

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

  External articles

  Elections.DailyKos posts tagged "IL-02" (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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