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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	Francisco Canseco
  Incumbent running?	Yes
  Primary challenge?	No primary challenge for incumbent.
  Cook Political Report Partisan Voting Index	R+6
  Cook Political Report Race Classification	Republican Toss Up

  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
  Francisco Canseco	Republican	Confirmed candidate	FEC Source	August 3, 2011
  Ciro Rodriguez	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	FEC Source	August 3, 2011	2010 Candidate & Fmr Congressman
  Trey Martinez Fischer	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source
  Justin Rodriguez	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	August 3, 2011
  Carlos Uresti	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	August 3, 2011
  Leticia Van De Putte	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	August 3, 2011
  Mike Villareal	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	August 3, 2011
  Pete Galleglo	Democratic	Considering candidate	Media Story Source	August 3, 2011
  John Bustamante	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	August 20, 2011

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results [edit election results]
  

  2012 primary winners	2012 general election winner
  TBD	TBD

  
  

  
  

  2010 election

  [edit 2010 election info with form]

  Candidates

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Ciro Rodriguez	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	January 31, 2010
  Lyle Larson	Republican	Out	TX SOS Source	March 9, 2009	2008 Candidate
  Miguel Ortiz	Democratic	Out	TX SOS Source	March 7, 2010	Lost Primary
  Scott Larson	Republican	Out	Campaign Website Source	August 10, 2009
  Francisco Canseco	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	July 27, 2009
  Will Hurd	Republican	Out	TX SOS Source	March 7, 2010	Lost Primary Runoff
  Mike Kueber	Republican	Out	TX SOS Source	March 7, 2010	Lost Primary
  Vic Luebker	Libertarian	Out	The Green Papers Source	December 27, 2009
  Joseph Gould	Republican	Out	TX SOS Source	March 7, 2010	Lost Primary
  Robert Lowry	Republican	Out	TX SOS Source	March 7, 2010	Lost Primary

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2010 primary election winners	2010 general election winner
  Ciro Rodriguez, Francisco Canseco	Francisco Canseco

  
  

  2008 election

  [2008 election edit info with form]
  Incumbent: Ciro Rodriguez

  
  Candidates

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Ciro Rodriguez	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)	March 9, 2009
  Lyle Larson	Republican	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)	March 9, 2009

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2008 primary election winners	2008 general election winner
  Ciro Rodriguez, Lyle Larson	Ciro Rodriguez

  2008 Presidential election results

  	Republican	Democratic
  2000	54% George W. Bush	47% Al Gore
  2004	57% George W. Bush	43% John Kerry
  2008	48% John McCain	51% Barack Obama

  
  

  Articles and resources

  See also

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

  External articles

  Elections.DailyKos posts tagged "TX-23" (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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  Categories: Project:RaceTracker | 2012 Cook Political Report competitive races | Congressional districts | Pages using the "Congressional district" template