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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

  [edit 2012 election info with form]
  Links to names in blue have existing profiles, red links need someone to start one.
  

  2012 fundraising data for UT-02 available when OpenSecrets.org updates for 2012.

  Race status

  Incumbent:	Jim Matheson
  Incumbent running?	Yes, for a different seat
  Primary challenge?	N/a

  Candidates

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Jim Matheson	Democratic	Running for another House seat	Politico Source	December 16, 2011	Running for UT-04
  Morgan Philpot	Republican	Out of race	Facebook Source	July 29, 2011	2010 Candidate Running for Governor
  Chuck Williams	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	July 29, 2011
  Mia Love	Republican	Out of race	Campaign Website Source	November 25, 2011
  Cherilyn Eagar	Republican	Confirmed candidate	FEC Source	August 31, 2011
  John Willoughby	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Facebook Source	October 15, 2011
  Stephen Sandstrom	Republican	Out of race	Campaign Website Source	October 15, 2011
  Chris Stewart	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	November 25, 2011
  Howard Wallack	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	November 25, 2011
  Dave Clark	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	November 26, 2011	State Rep
  Jason Buck	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	January 11, 2012
  Peter Corroon	Democratic	Potential candidate	Media Story Source	January 11, 2012	Salt Lake County Mayor
  Wayne Holland	Democratic	Potential candidate	Media Story Source	January 11, 2012

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2012 primary winners	2012 general election winner
  TBD	TBD

  
  

  2010 election

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  Candidates

  (Methodology)

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Jim Matheson	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	August 9, 2009
  Bill Dew	Republican	Out	UT SOS Source	September 9, 2010	2008 Candidate, Did Not File
  Casey Anderson	Republican	Out	Campaign Website Source	October 21, 2010	Did Not File
  Morgan Philpot	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	April 26, 2010
  Ryan Kelly	Independent	Out	Campaign Website Source	October 2, 2010	Did Not File
  Dave Glissmeyer	Independent	Confirmed candidate	Campaign Website Source	January 2, 2010
  Claudia Wright	Democratic	Out	UT SOS Source	November 1, 2010	Defeated in Primary
  Ed Eliason	Republican	Out	UT SOS Source	November 1, 2010	Defeated at Primary Convention
  Neil Walter	Republican	Out	UT SOS Source	November 1, 2010	Defeated at Primary Convention

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2010 primary election winners	2010 general election winner
  Morgan Philpot, Jim Matheson	Jim Matheson

  
  

  2008 election

  [2008 election edit info with form]
  Incumbent: Jim Matheson

  
  Candidates

  Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
  Jim Matheson	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)	March 9, 2009
  Bill Dew	Republican	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)	March 9, 2009

  (Candidate classification criteria)

  
  Results

  2008 primary election winners	2008 general election winner
  Jim Matheson, Bill Dew	Jim Matheson

  2008 Presidential election results

  	Republican	Democratic
  2000	67% George W. Bush	31% Al Gore
  2004	66% George W. Bush	31% John Kerry
  2008	% John McCain	% Barack Obama

  District map and incumbent offices

  Jim Matheson's district offices
  120 East Main, Price, UT 84501 435-636-3722 (Phone) (Fax) 321 North Mall Drive, Suite 3101B, Saint George, UT 84790 435-627-0880, 1-877-677-9743 (Phone) (Fax) 240 East Morris Avenue #235, South Salt Lake, UT 84115 801-486-1236, 1-877-677-9743 (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 Utah congressional districts and candidates.
  • The full House 2012 elections report.
  • The RaceTracker homepage.

  External articles

  Elections.DailyKos posts tagged "UT-02" (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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