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CA-05
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| House1: 435 seats | Senate: 33 seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOP | Dems | Total | GOP | Dems | Total | |
| Confirmed primary challenges | 63 | 32 | 95 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Possible primary challenges | 13 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Open seats* | 7 | 15 | 26 | 2 | 6 | 92 |
2. Includes Joe Lieberman, who is retiring from his Conn. senate seat.
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Contents
2012 election
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2012 fundraising data for CA-05
available when OpenSecrets.org updates for 2012.Race status
Incumbent: Doris Matsui Incumbent running? Yes, for a different seat Primary challenge? N/a Candidates
Name Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note Doris Matsui Democratic Running for another House seat Media Story Source August 20, 2011 Running in CA-06 Paul Smith Republican Out of race FEC Source July 2, 2011 2008 & 2010 Candidate Michael Thompson Democratic Confirmed candidate Media Story Source August 16, 2011 Current CA-01 Congressman Erik Smitt Republican Out of race Facebook Source January 9, 2012 2010 Primary Candidate Running in CA-06
(Candidate classification criteria)
Results2012 primary winners 2012 general election winner TBD TBD
2010 election
Candidates
Name Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note Doris Matsui Democratic Confirmed candidate FEC Source March 21, 2009 Paul Smith Republican Confirmed candidate Campaign Website Source November 1, 2010 2008 Candidate Erik Smitt Republican Out CA SOS Source November 1, 2010 Lost Primary (Candidate classification criteria)
Results2010 primary election winners 2010 general election winner Doris Matsui, Paul Smith Doris Matsui
2008 election
Incumbent: Doris Matsui
CandidatesName Party Status Reference URL Reference date Reference note Doris Matsui Democratic (source needed) Paul Smith Republican (source needed) (Candidate classification criteria)
Results2008 primary election winners 2008 general election winner Doris Matsui, Paul Smith Doris Matsui 2008 Presidential election results
Republican Democratic 2000 35% George W. Bush 60% Al Gore 2004 38% George W. Bush 61% John Kerry 2008 28% John McCain 70% Barack Obama District map and incumbent offices
Doris Matsui's district offices - 12-600 Federal Courthouse 501 I Street Sacramento, CA 95814
916-498-5600 (Phone) (Fax)
District map layers graciously provided by GovTrack.Us.
See the incumbent's page for more contact info.
Articles and resources
See also
- Index for all the California congressional districts and candidates.
- The full House 2012 elections report.
- The RaceTracker homepage.
External articles
Elections.DailyKos posts tagged "CA-05" (link) Want this data? All information is open-source and free (as in beer and speech). Most data is available via API, RDF, CSV or other methods. See details or email us.
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. - 12-600 Federal Courthouse 501 I Street Sacramento, CA 95814
