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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:	David Dreier
  Incumbent running?	No
  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
  David Dreier	Republican	Out of race	Huffington Post Source	April 27, 2012	Retiring
  Russ Warner	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	July 20, 2011	2008 & 2010 Candidate
  Anthony Portantino	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	July 3, 2011	Lives in CA-28 May Run in CA-32
  Roger Hernandez	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	September 10, 2011
  Elton Gallegly	Republican	Out of race	Media Story Source	January 8, 2012
  David Pollock	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	April 27, 2012	Moorpark Councilman
  Brad Sherman	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	August 20, 2011	Current CA-27 Congressman Running in CA-30
  David Cruz Thayne	Democratic	Out - lost primary	CA SOS Source	July 1, 2012
  Steve Bennett	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	April 27, 2012	Ventura County Supervisor Running for Re-Election
  Richard Francis	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	August 20, 2011	Running for Ventura County Supervisor
  Mary Anne Rooney	Democratic	Out of race	CA SOS Source	August 20, 2011	Oxnard Harbor District Commissioner
  Fran Pavley	Democratic	Out of race	Campaign Website Source	December 5, 2011	Running for Re-election to State Senate
  Tony Strickland	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	January 9, 2012	State Senator
  Linda Parks	Independent	Out - lost primary	CA SOS Source	July 1, 2012	Ventura County Supervisor Former Republican
  Keith Millhouse	Republican	Out of race	CA SOS Source	April 27, 2012	Moorpark City Council Member Did Not File
  Justin Davis	Democratic	Out of race	CA SOS Source	April 27, 2012	May Run in CA-25 Did Not File
  Glen Becerra	Republican	Out of race	CA SOS Source	April 27, 2012	Lives in CA-25 Simi Valley City Councilman Did Not File
  Esequiel Ruelas	Democratic	Out of race	CA SOS Source	April 27, 2012	Did Not File
  Jess Herrera	Democratic	Out - lost primary	CA SOS Source	July 1, 2012	Oxnard Harbor District Commissioner
  Peter Foy	Republican	Out of race	CA SOS Source	April 27, 2012	Did Not File
  Bob Brooks	Republican	Out of race	CA SOS Source	April 28, 2012	Ventura County Superviser Did Not File
  Greg Totten	Republican	Out of race	Media Story Source	January 9, 2012	Ventura County District Attorney
  Julia Brownley	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	February 20, 2012	State Assemblywoman
  Albert Goldberg	Democratic	Out - lost primary	CA SOS Source	July 1, 2012	2000 CA-23 Primary Candidate
  Tim Kalemkarian	Republican	Out of race	CA SOS Source	July 1, 2012	Did Not File

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  Results [edit election results]
  

  2012 primary winners	2012 general election winner
  Tony Strickland, Julia Brownley	TBD

  
  

  
  

  2010 election

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  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	44% Al Gore
  2004	55% George W. Bush	44% John Kerry
  2008	47% John McCain	51% Barack Obama

  
  

  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-26" (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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