2012 U.S. Senate elections

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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.

The following information is generated by the crowd-sourced RaceTracker project on OpenCongress.

All 2012 Senate races

Total senate seats up for election in 2012: 33

	Incumbent	Party	Incumbent running?	Primary challenge?
AZ-Senate Class I Seat	Jon Kyl	Republican	No	N/a
CA-Senate Class I Seat	Dianne Feinstein	Democratic	Yes	Yes
CT-Senate Class I Seat	Joseph Lieberman	Independent	No	N/a
DE-Senate Class I Seat	Thomas Carper	Democratic	Yes	No
FL-Senate Class I Seat	Bill Nelson	Democratic	Yes	No
HI-Senate Class I Seat	Daniel Akaka	Democratic	No	N/a
IN-Senate Class I Seat	Richard Lugar	Republican	Yes	Yes
MA-Senate Class I Seat	Scott Brown	Republican	Yes	No
MD-Senate Class I Seat	Benjamin Cardin	Democratic	Yes	No
ME-Senate Class I Seat	Olympia Snowe	Republican	No	N/a
MI-Senate Class I Seat	Debbie Stabenow	Democratic	Yes	No
MN-Senate Class I Seat	Amy Klobuchar	Democratic	Yes	Yes
MO-Senate Class I Seat	Claire McCaskill	Democratic	Yes	Yes
MS-Senate Class I Seat	Roger Wicker	Republican	Yes	No
MT-Senate Class I Seat	Jon Tester	Democratic	Yes	No
ND-Senate Class I Seat	Kent Conrad	Democratic	No	N/a
NE-Senate Class I Seat	E. Benjamin Nelson	Democratic	No	N/a
NJ-Senate Class I Seat	Robert Menendez	Democratic	Yes	No
NM-Senate Class I Seat	Jeff Bingaman	Democratic	No	N/a
NV-Senate Class I Seat	Dean Heller	Republican	Yes	Yes
NY-Senate Class I Seat	Kirsten Gillibrand	Democratic	Yes	No
OH-Senate Class I Seat	Sherrod Brown	Democratic	Yes	No
PA-Senate Class I Seat	Robert Casey	Democratic	Yes	No
RI-Senate Class I Seat	Sheldon Whitehouse	Democratic	Yes	Yes
TN-Senate Class I Seat	Bob Corker	Republican	Yes	Yes
TX-Senate Class I Seat	Kay Hutchison	Republican	No	N/a
UT-Senate Class I Seat	Orrin Hatch	Republican	Yes	Yes
VA-Senate Class I Seat	James Webb	Democratic	No	N/a
VT-Senate Class I Seat	Bernard Sanders	Independent	Yes	No
WA-Senate Class I Seat	Maria Cantwell	Democratic	Yes	No
WI-Senate Class I Seat	Herbert Kohl	Democratic	No	N/a
WV-Senate Class I Seat	Joe Manchin	Democratic	Yes	Yes
WY-Senate Class I Seat	John Barrasso	Republican	Yes	Yes

Senate races by category

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Confirmed primary challenges

Total senators facing confirmed primary challenges: 10

Republican senators facing a confirmed primary challenge: 5

District	Incumbent	Seeking reelection?	Confirmed GOP challengers
IN-Senate Class I Seat	Richard Lugar	Yes	Robert Mourdock
NV-Senate Class I Seat	Dean Heller	Yes	Ed Hamilton
TN-Senate Class I Seat	Bob Corker	Yes	James Durkan Mark Twain Clemens Brenda Lenard Zach Poskevich
UT-Senate Class I Seat	Orrin Hatch	Yes	Dan Liljenquist
WY-Senate Class I Seat	John Barrasso	Yes	Thomas Bleming

Democratic senators facing a confirmed primary challenge: 5

District	Incumbent	Seeking reelection?	Confirmed Dem. challengers
CA-Senate Class I Seat	Dianne Feinstein	Yes	David Levitt Michael Strimling
MN-Senate Class I Seat	Amy Klobuchar	Yes	Dick Franson
MO-Senate Class I Seat	Claire McCaskill	Yes	Samuel Lipari
RI-Senate Class I Seat	Sheldon Whitehouse	Yes	Todd Giroux
WV-Senate Class I Seat	Joe Manchin	Yes	Sheirl Fletcher

Potential primary challenges

Total senators facing possible primary challenges: 0

Republican senators facing a possible primary challenge: 0

Democratic senators facing a possible primary challenge: 0

Open seats (retiring member)

Total open seats: 10

Open seats currently held by a Republican incumbent: 3

District	Incumbent	Confirmed GOP challengers	Confirmed Dem. challengers	Possible Dem. challengers
AZ-Senate Class I Seat	Jon Kyl	Jeff Flake Wil Cardon Bryan Hackbarth Doug McKee Clair Van Steenwyk	Richard Carmona	Don Bivens Ed Pastor
ME-Senate Class I Seat	Olympia Snowe	Scott D’Amboise Richard A. Bennett Debra Plowman Bruce Poliquin William Schneider Charles E. Summers, Jr.	Jon Hinck Matt Dunlap Cynthia Dill Benjamin Pollard
TX-Senate Class I Seat	Kay Hutchison	David Dewhurst Tom Leppert Ted Cruz Glenn Addison Joe Agris Curt Cleaver Ben Gambini Charles Holcomb Craig James Lela Pittenger	Ricardo Sanchez Paul Sadler Addie Dainell Allen Sean Hubbard

Open seats currently held by a Democratic incumbent: 6

District	Incumbent	Party	Confirmed GOP challengers	Possible GOP challengers	Confirmed Dem. challengers
HI-Senate Class I Seat	Daniel Akaka	Democratic	John Carroll	Linda Lingle	Ed Case Mazie Hirono
ND-Senate Class I Seat	Kent Conrad	Democratic	Rick Berg Duane Sand		Heidi Heitkamp
NE-Senate Class I Seat	E. Benjamin Nelson	Democratic	Jon Bruning Deb Fischer Pat Flynn Spencer Zimmerman Don Stenberg		Bob Kerrey Steve Lustgarten
NM-Senate Class I Seat	Jeff Bingaman	Democratic	Heather Wilson Greg Sowards		Martin Heinrich Hector Balderas Andres Valdez
VA-Senate Class I Seat	James Webb	Democratic	George Allen Jaime Radtke E.W. Jackson Bob Marshall		Tim Kaine
WI-Senate Class I Seat	Herbert Kohl	Democratic	Mark Neumann Jeff Fitzgerald Tommy G. Thompson Eric Hovde Kip Smith		Tammy Baldwin

Open seats currently held by a Independent incumbent: 1

District	Incumbent	Party	Confirmed GOP challengers	Possible GOP challengers	Confirmed Dem. challengers	Possible Dem. challengers
CT-Senate Class I Seat	Joseph Lieberman	Independent	Christopher Shays Linda McMahon Brian K. Hill Kie Westby Peter Lumaj		Christopher Murphy Susan Bysiewicz William Tong Matthew J. Oakes Sylvester Salcedo Lee Whitnum

Open seats without an incumbent: 0

Potential open seats (retiring member)

Number of open seats: 0
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