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RaceTracker 2012 Congressional Election Dashboard
2012 House report  · 2012 Senate report

	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

1. Does not include the special election in OR-01.
2. 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 District map and incumbent offices 6 Articles and resources

  
  

  2012 election

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  Links to names in blue have existing profiles, red links need someone to start one.
  

  2012 fundraising data for IN-06 available when OpenSecrets.org updates for 2012.

  Race status

  Incumbent:	Mike Pence
  Incumbent running?	No
  Primary challenge?	N/a

  Candidates

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Mike Pence	Republican	Out of race	Politico Source	July 13, 2011	Running for Governor
  Barry Welsh	Democratic	Considering candidate	Media Story Source	July 13, 2011	2006-10 Candidate
  Don Bates Jr	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	July 13, 2011	2010 Senate Primary Candidate
  Travis Hankins	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	July 13, 2011	2010 IN-09 Primary Candidate
  John Hatter	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	July 13, 2011
  Nate LaMar	Republican	Out of race	Media Story Source	July 13, 2011	Henry County Council President
  Jean Leising	Republican	Potential candidate	Media Story Source	July 13, 2011
  Luke Messer	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	July 13, 2011	2010 IN-05 Primary Candidate
  Mike Sodrel	Republican	Potential candidate	Wikepedia Source	July 13, 2011	Fmr IN-09 Congressman & 2010 IN-09 Primary Candidate
  Matt Strittmatter	Republican	Out of race	Roll Call Source	July 13, 2011
  T J Thompson	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	July 13, 2011	2010 Libertarian IN-06 Candidate
  Brad Bookout	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	August 13, 2011
  Jim Crone	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	July 13, 2011
  Lane Siekman	Democratic	Out of race	Facebook Source	September 24, 2011
  Daniel Bolling	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	FEC Source	September 20, 2011
  Bill Frazier	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	October 15, 2011	Multiple times a Congressional Candidate
  Andrew Phipps	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	December 13, 2011
  Allen Smith	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	January 11, 2012	Bartholomew County Coroner
  Bill Frazier	Republican	Confirmed candidate	IN SOS Source	January 28, 2012
  Joseph Van Wye	Republican	Confirmed candidate	IN SOS Source	January 28, 2012

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2012 primary winners	2012 general election winner
  TBD	TBD

  
  

  2010 election

  [edit 2010 election info with form]

  Candidates

  (Methodology)

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Mike Pence	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	March 22, 2009
  Barry Welsh	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	March 1, 2010	2006 & 2008 Candidate
  TJ Thompson	Libertarian	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	July 1, 2009
  George Holland	Democratic	Out	IN SOS Source	July 5, 2010	Lost primary

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2010 primary election winners	2010 general election winner
  Barry Welsh, Mike Pence	Mike Pence

  
  

  2008 election

  [2008 election edit info with form]
  Incumbent: Mike Pence

  
  Candidates

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Mike Pence	Republican	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)	March 22, 2009
  Barry Welsh	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)	March 22, 2009

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2008 primary election winners	2008 general election winner
  Mike Pence, Barry Welsh	Mike Pence

  2008 Presidential election results

  	Republican	Democratic
  2000	59% George W. Bush	40% Al Gore
  2004	64% George W. Bush	35% John Kerry
  2008	% John McCain	% Barack Obama

  District map and incumbent offices

  Mike Pence's district offices
  1134 Meridian Plaza Anderson, IN 46016 765-640-2919 (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 Indiana congressional districts and candidates.
  • The full House 2012 elections report.
  • The RaceTracker homepage.

  External articles

  Elections.DailyKos posts tagged "IN-06" (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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