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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:	Jason Altmire
  Incumbent running?	Yes, for a different seat
  Primary challenge?	N/a

  Candidates [edit candidate list]
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  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Jason Altmire	Democratic	Running for another House seat	Media Story Source	January 2, 2012	Running in PA-12
  Keith Rothfus	Republican	Out of race	Roll Call Source	August 2, 2011	2010 Candidate Running in PA-12
  Jim Christiana	Republican	Out of race	Roll Call Source	September 28, 2011
  Todd Platts	Republican	Out of race	Roll Call Source	January 18, 2012	Current PA-19 Congressman Retiring
  Eric Maloney	Republican	Out of race	PA SOS Source	March 7, 2012	Did Not File
  Ted Waga	Republican	Out - lost primary	PA SOS Source	April 27, 2012
  Scott Perry	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Roll Call Source	January 27, 2012	State Rep
  Chris Reilly	Republican	Out - lost primary	PA SOS Source	April 27, 2012	York County Commissioner
  Brock McCleary	Republican	Out of race	Media Story Source	April 13, 2012
  Seth Grove	Republican	Out of race	PA SOS Source	March 7, 2012	Did Not File
  Mike Waugh	Republican	Out of race	PA SOS Source	March 7, 2012	State Senator Did Not File
  Steve Chronister	Republican	Out of race	PA SOS Source	March 7, 2012	York County Commissioner Did Not File
  Mike Smeltzer	Republican	Out of race	PA SOS Source	March 7, 2012	Did Not File
  Sean Summers	Republican	Out - lost primary	PA SOS Source	April 27, 2012
  Ken Lee	Democratic	Out - lost primary	PA SOS Source	April 27, 2012
  Matt Matsunaga	Democratic	Out of race	PA SOS Source	March 7, 2012	Did Not File
  Harry Perkinson	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	January 27, 2012
  Kevin Downs	Republican	Out - lost primary	PA SOS Source	April 27, 2012
  Eric Martin	Republican	Out - lost primary	PA SOS Source	March 27, 2012
  Mark Swomley	Republican	Out - lost primary	PA SOS Source	March 27, 2012
  Ryan Sanders	Democratic	Out of race	PA SOS Source	March 7, 2012	2010 PA-19 Candidate Did Not File
  Doug Hoke	Democratic	Out of race	PA SOS Source	March 7, 2012	York County Commissioner Did Not File
  John Brenner	Democratic	Out of race	PA SOS Source	March 7, 2012	Former York County Mayor Did Not File
  Phil Avillo	Democratic	Out of race	Media Story Source	January 20, 2012	2008 PA-19 Candidate

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  Results [edit election results]
  

  2012 primary winners	2012 general election winner
  Scott Perry, Harry Perkinson	TBD

  
  

  
  

  2010 election

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  Candidates

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note

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  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	52% George W. Bush	46% Al Gore
  2004	54% George W. Bush	45% John Kerry
  2008	% John McCain	% Barack Obama

  
  

  Articles and resources

  See also

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

  External articles

  Elections.DailyKos posts tagged "PA-04" (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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