The Green Papers: 2012 General Election
 
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Senate Seats by State

This is a list of the current Senate seats and the incumbents occupying them. 33 Senate Seats are up for election on 6 November 2012.

There have been 1 death, 1 resignation, and 0 changes re: party breakdown in the 112th Senate.

  • Senator John Eric Ensign (Republican, Nevada Class 1) resigned on 3 May 2011 following an ethics violation.
  • Congressman Dean Heller (Republican, Nevada CD 2) was appointed to Nevada's Class 1 U.S. Senate Seat on 3 May 2011.
  • Senator Daniel K. Inouye (Democratic, Hawaii Class 3) passed away on 17 December 2012 due to a respiratory illness.
  • Lieutenant Governor Brian E. Schatz (Democratic) was appointed to Hawaii's Class 3 U.S. Senate Seat on 26 December 2012.

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Arizona  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 1
Seat up for election
Open
Republican Senator Jon L. Kyl
First elected: 1994; re-elected 2000, 2006
[also served in U.S. House- elected: 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992]
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Open Seat - 10 February 2011: Announced retirement
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Republican 1,104,457 49.23% Congressman Jeff Flake
CD 6

FEC S2AZ00141; 26 Nov 12; Tot $9,007,856; Dsb $9,334,524
  Candidate Democratic 1,036,542 46.20% former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona
FEC S2AZ00232; 26 Nov 12; Tot $6,459,521; Dsb $6,270,596
  Candidate Libertarian 102,109 4.55% Marc J. Victor
Nominated in the 28 August 2012 Primary as a write-in candidate.

FEC S2AZ00299; 26 Nov 12; Tot $8,336; Dsb $8,334
  Candidate Write-in; (Independent) 290 0.01% Steven Richard Watts
FEC S2AZ00307; 12 Nov 12; Tot $3,000; Dsb $1,155
  Candidate Write-in; (Independent) 24 0.00% Don Manspeaker
FEC S2AZ00315
Total 2,243,422 100.00%  

Indiana  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 1
Seat up for election
Lost
Republican Senator Richard G. Lugar
First elected: 1976; re-elected: 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Lost Primary / No Longer Running - Defeated in 8 May 2012 Primary
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 1,281,181 50.04% Congressman Joseph Simon "Joe" Donnelly
9 May 2011: Congressman CD 2. Running for the Class 1 Senate Seat in 2012.

FEC S2IN00091; 26 Nov 12; Tot $5,572,319; Dsb $5,496,760
  Candidate Republican 1,133,621 44.28% Treasurer Richard E. Mourdock
FEC S2IN00083; 26 Nov 12; Tot $8,982,053; Dsb $8,698,721
  Candidate Libertarian 145,282 5.67% Andrew Michael "Andy" Horning
FEC S2IN00109; 26 Nov 12; Tot $4,907; Dsb $2,905
  Candidate Write-in; (Workers World) 15 0.00% James L. Johnson, Jr.
FEC S2IN00117
  Candidate Write-in; (Independent) 3 0.00% Amy J. Willis
FEC S2IN00125
Total 2,560,102 100.00%  

Maine  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 1
Seat up for election
Open
Republican Senator Olympia J. Snowe
First elected: 1994; re-elected 2000, 2006
[also served in U.S. House-elected: 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992]
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Open Seat - 28 February 2012: "After an extraordinary amount of reflection and consideration, I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate."
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Independent 370,580 51.13% former Governor Angus Stanley King, Jr.
28 May 2012: Political Designation: Independent for Maine.
14 November 2012: After being elected as an Independent, Senator-elect King announced that he will caucus with the Democrats in the U.S. Senate.

FEC S2ME00109; 26 Nov 12; Tot $2,901,504; Dsb $2,732,563
  Candidate Republican 215,399 29.72% Secretary of State Charles Edward Summers, Jr.
FEC S2ME00133; 26 Nov 12; Tot $1,288,121; Dsb $1,280,034
  Candidate Democratic 92,900 12.82% state Senator Cynthia Ann Dill
FEC S2ME00083; 26 Nov 12; Tot $184,364; Dsb $189,028
  Candidate Scattering 24,121 3.33% BLANK
  Candidate Independent 10,289 1.42% Yarmouth Town Council Man Stephen M. "Steve" Woods
22 May 2012: Political Designation: Independent.
4 November 2012: Woods leaves Senate race, endorses King.

FEC S2ME00166; 31 Dec 12; Tot $72,495; Dsb $72,493
  Candidate Nonpartisan 5,807 0.80% Danny Francis Dalton
Political Designation: Non-party

FEC S2ME00174
  Candidate Independent; (Libertarian) 5,624 0.78% Andrew Ian Dodge
22 February 2012: Announced he is leaving the Republican party and will run as an Independent - "I have no faith that the Maine Republicans can run a fair primary".
5 March 2012: Running as a Libertarian.
31 May 2012: Political Designation: Independent for Liberty

FEC S2ME00059; 06 Nov 12; Tot $0; Dsb $0
    Write-in; (Democratic)     Justin Benjamin "Ben" Pollard - apparently not a candidate
12 June 2012: Lost Democratic Primary.
2 August 2012: Running as a write-in in the General Election.

FEC S2ME00091; 23 May 12; Tot $9,400; Dsb $9,362
  Candidate Write-in; (Republican)     Michael Stoddard
Total 724,720 100.00%  

Massachusetts  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican, 1 Democratic

Class 1
Seat up for election
Republican Senator Scott P. Brown
First elected in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy: 19 January 2010. He replaced Senator Paul G. Kirk, Jr. (Democratic) who had been appointed by Governor Deval L. Patrick (Democratic) to temporarily fill the vacancy.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Renominated - 6 September 2012 Primary
  Elected Democratic 1,696,346 53.27% Elizabeth A. Warren
FEC S2MA00170; 26 Nov 12; Tot $42,040,727; Dsb $41,212,005
  Candidate Republican 1,458,048 45.79% Senator Scott P. Brown
FEC S0MA00109; 26 Nov 12; Tot $28,135,922; Dsb $34,857,978
  Candidate Scattering 27,643 0.87% Blanks
  Candidate Scattering 2,159 0.07% All others
  Candidate Write-in; (Socialist Workers Party)     Laura Garza
Total 3,184,196 100.00%  

Mississippi  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 1
Seat up for election
Republican Senator Roger F. Wicker
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012
Appointed 31 December 2007 to fill the vacancy caused by the 18 December 2007 resignation of Senator Trent Lott. First elected in a special election: 4 November 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Renominated - 13 March 2012 Primary
  Elected Republican 709,626 57.16% Senator Roger F. Wicker
FEC S8MS00196; 26 Nov 12; Tot $3,382,302; Dsb $1,462,626
  Candidate Democratic 503,467 40.55% Albert N. Gore, Jr.
FEC S2MS00074
  Candidate Constitution 15,281 1.23% Thomas Everett "Tom" Cramer
FEC S2MS00124; 26 Nov 12; Tot $3,130; Dsb $2,595
  Candidate Reform 13,194 1.06% Shawn O'Hara
FEC S4MS00062
Total 1,241,568 100.00%  

Nevada  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican, 1 Democratic

Class 1
Seat up for election
Republican Senator Dean Heller
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012
First appointed: 3 May 2011.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Renominated - 12 June 2012 Primary
  Elected Republican 457,656 45.87% Senator Dean Heller
Congressman from Congressional District 2.
10 March 2011: Media reports state that Congressman Heller will run for the Class 1 Senate seat in 2012. The congressman made it official on 15 March.
23 April 2011: Likely appointee once Senator John Ensign resigns.
27 April 2011: Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval (Republican) announced today that he will appoint Congressman Dean Heller (Republican) to fill the seat of Senator John Eric Ensign (Republican) upon Senator Ensign's 3 May resignation.

FEC S2NV00183; 26 Nov 12; Tot $9,341,391; Dsb $9,101,891
  Candidate Democratic 446,080 44.71% Congressman Shelley Berkley
14 April 2011: Announced she is running for the Senate Class 1 seat in 2012.

FEC S2NV00209; 26 Nov 12; Tot $10,538,708; Dsb $11,590,088
  Candidate Independent American 48,792 4.89% David Lory VanderBeek
FEC S2NV00274
  Candidate None of these candidates 45,277 4.54% None of these candidates
  
Senator John Eric Ensign (Republican) resigned on 3 May 2011. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000 and re-elected in 2006. He also served in U.S. House being elected in 1994 and re-elected in 1996.
On 7 March 2011, the Senator announced his retirement at the end of his current term.
On 21 April 2011, he announced his resignation effective 3 May 2011-- "While I stand behind my firm belief that I have not violated any law, rule, or standard of conduct of the Senate, and I have fought to prove this publicly, I will not continue to subject my family, my constituents, or the Senate to any further rounds of investigation, depositions, drawn out proceedings, or especially public hearings. For my family and me, this continued personal cost is simply too great."
On 27 April 2011, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval (Republican) announced that he would appoint Congressman Dean Heller (Republican, CD 2) to fill the seat of Senator John Eric Ensign (Republican) upon Senator Ensign's 3 May resignation.
The next regular election for this seat is on Tuesday 6 November 2012.

Total 997,805 100.00%  

Tennessee  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 1
Seat up for election
Republican Senator Robert P. "Bob" Corker, Jr.
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Renominated - 2 August Primary
  Elected Republican 1,506,443 64.89% Senator Robert P. "Bob" Corker, Jr.
FEC S6TN00216; 26 Nov 12; Tot $9,990,305; Dsb $4,965,370
  Candidate Democratic 705,882 30.41% Mark E. Clayton
FEC S8TN00279
  Candidate Green 38,472 1.66% Martin Gene Pleasant
FEC S2TN00355
  Candidate Independent; (Libertarian) 20,936 0.90% Shaun E. Crowell
FEC S2TN00256; 05 Dec 12; Tot $25,162; Dsb $23,084
  Candidate Constitution 18,620 0.80% Kermit Steck
FEC S2TN00363
  Candidate Independent 8,085 0.35% James Higdon
FEC S2TN00322
  Candidate Independent 8,080 0.35% Michel Joseph Long
FEC S2TN00330
  Candidate Independent 7,148 0.31% Troy Stephen Scoggin
FEC S2TN00348
  Candidate Independent 6,523 0.28% David Gatchell
FEC S6TN00299
  Candidate Write-in 470 0.02% Angelia Stinnett
  Candidate Write-in 409 0.02% Jacob Maurer
  Candidate Write-in; (Democratic) 218 0.01% Larry Crim
FEC S2TN00223; 30 Sep 12; Tot $43,355; Dsb $36,423
  Candidate Write-in 117 0.01% Jim Maynard
  Candidate Write-in 23 0.00% Margie Nell Penn
  Candidate Write-in; (Democratic) 18 0.00% Gary Gene Davis
FEC S2TN00082
  Candidate Write-in 14 0.00% Lee Stewart
  Candidate Write-in 12 0.00% Christopher Schappert
  Candidate Write-in 5 0.00% Allen Hoenicke
  Candidate Write-in; (Independent) 2 0.00% Mary D. Wright
FEC S0TN00060
  Candidate Write-in; (Republican) 0 0.00% Fred R. Anderson
FEC S2TN00306
  Candidate Write-in 0 0.00% De Wayne A. Jones
Total 2,321,477 100.00%  

Texas  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 1
Seat up for election
Open
Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
First elected to finish out the term in a Special Election: 1 May 1993- and necessary subsequent Runoff: 5 June 1993 [held to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. (Democrat): 20 January 1993- which Robert Krueger had been appointed by Governor Ann W. Richards (Democrat) to fill, 21 January 1993]; elected to full term: 1994; re-elected 2000, 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Open Seat - 13 January 2011: "I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for re-election in 2012...".
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Republican 4,440,137 56.46% former Solicitor General Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz
Nominated in Runoff: 31 July 2012

FEC S2TX00312; 26 Nov 12; Tot $14,881,758; Dsb $14,187,992
  Candidate Democratic 3,194,927 40.62% former state Representative Paul Lindsey Sadler
Nominated in Runoff: 31 July 2012

FEC S2TX00429; 26 Nov 12; Tot $709,476; Dsb $498,325
  Candidate Libertarian 162,354 2.06% John Jay Myers
FEC S2TX00502; 16 Nov 12; Tot $15,440; Dsb $15,440
  Candidate Green 67,404 0.86% David Bruce Collins
FEC S2TX00486
Total 7,864,822 100.00%  

Utah  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 1
Seat up for election
Republican Senator Orrin G. Hatch
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012
First elected: 1976; re-elected: 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Renominated - 26 June 2012 Primary
  Elected Republican 657,608 65.31% Senator Orrin G. Hatch
21 April 2012: Came in first place at the Convention but did not win 60%. Proceeds to 26 June primary.

FEC S6UT00063; 26 Nov 12; Tot $8,907,906; Dsb $10,534,460
  Candidate Democratic 301,873 29.98% Scott N. Howell
21 April 2012: Won his party's nomination with 63%.

FEC S0UT00066; 26 Nov 12; Tot $414,018; Dsb $395,576
  Candidate Constitution 31,905 3.17% Shaun Lynn McCausland
FEC S2UT00245
  Candidate Justice Party 8,342 0.83% Daniel Geery
FEC S2UT00260
  Candidate Unaffiliated 7,172 0.71% William Currie "Bill" Barron
FEC S2UT00187; 26 Nov 12; Tot $16,884; Dsb $13,829
  Candidate Write-in; (Unaffiliated) 1 0.00% Joann S. Secrist
FEC S2UT00278
Total 1,006,901 100.00%  

Wyoming  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 1
Seat up for election
Republican Senator John A. Barrasso
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012
Appointed: 22 June 2007 by Governor Dave Freudenthal; first elected in a special election: 4 November 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Renominated - 21 August 2012 Primary
  Elected Republican 185,250 73.89% Senator John A. Barrasso
FEC S6WY00068; 26 Nov 12; Tot $4,094,792; Dsb $2,054,227
  Candidate Democratic 53,019 21.15% Albany County Commissioner Tim Chesnut
FEC S2WY00109
  Candidate Wyoming Country 6,176 2.46% Joel Otto
FEC S2WY00133
  Candidate Scattering 5,747 2.29% Under Votes
  Candidate Scattering 417 0.17% Write-Ins
  Candidate Scattering 91 0.04% Over Votes
Total 250,700 100.00%  

Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

Major Parties
  Democratic
  Democratic-Farmer Labor
  Democratic-Nonpartisan League
  Republican
Major Third Parties
  Constitution
  Green
  Libertarian
  Reform
Other Third Parties
  America First
  Common Sense
  Conservative
  Democratic/Republican
  Grassroots
  Independence
  Independent American
  Independent Party of Connecticut
  Independent Party Of Delaware
  Justice Party
  Liberty Union
  Marijuana
  Mountain
  Natural Law
  Progressive
  Socialist Party USA
  Socialist Workers Party
  U.S. Taxpayers
  Workers World
  Working Families
  Wyoming Country
Independents
  Independent
  Independent Democrat
  No Party Affiliation
  Nonpartisan
  Unaffiliated
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  None of these candidates
  Scattering
  Write-in
 

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.


"FEC" indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary.

When available, we post each candidate's FEC identification number, the date of their most recently filed Report of Receipts and Disbursements, their "Tot" [Total Receipts (contributions received or what came in: FEC Form 3, Line 16, Column B)] and their "Dsb" [Total Disbursements (expenditures or what was spent: FEC Form 3, Line 23, Column B)]. A link is provided to the Federal Election Commission's Summary Report for those who might wish to explore the details.

If a candidate raises or spends $5,000 or less, he or she is not subject to FEC reporting requirements.


Senate Class

Class 1 seats end their current terms at noon on 3 January 2013... next regular election for these seats is in 6 November 2012.
Class 2 seats end their current terms at noon on 3 January 2015... next regular election for these seats is 4 November 2014.
Class 3 seats begin their current terms at noon on 3 January 2011... next regular election for these seats is 8 November 2016.

For more information on Senate Classes refer to UNITED STATES SENATE: Electoral "Classes".


Article I, Section 3, clause 2 of the Constitution of the United States reads as follows:

"Immediately after [the Senate of the United States] shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year..."

Pursuant to this Constitutional provision, a three-Senator Committee was appointed by the Senate on 11 May 1789 to come up with a plan to carry out the requirements of that provision; this Committee reported to the Senate on 14 May 1789 a plan to divide the then 20 Senators (there were 10 of the 13 original States represented in the Senate at the time- each having 2 Senators: North Carolina and Rhode Island had yet to ratify the U.S. Constitution, while New York had so ratified but had failed to elect Senators as of that date) into the requisite three electoral Classes: under this plan, three groups of Senators (set up in such a way so as no State had its two Senators in the same group) were to be listed and the first Senator on each list (a list which was set up geographically north-to-south in the manner in which the Electoral Vote for President was counted before Congress at that time, so that two of the first Senators on these lists were from New Hampshire and the third was the first Senator in alphabetical order from Massachusetts) was to each blindly draw a piece of paper numbered either "1", "2" or "3" out of a box in the possession of the Secretary of the Senate. This plan being agreeable to the Senate and so approved, the drawing of lots in this manner was carried out the following day (15 May 1789)- such lot drawing ultimately determining that, to start with, Classes 1 and 2 were to have 7 Senators each and Class 3 was to have only 6 Senators.

When New York finally seated its two Senators during the ensuing Summer, there was another lot drawing (actually a double-lot drawing) on 28 July 1789 to determine the Classes for these seats: since one of the seats had to be Class 3 to make it equal in number to that of the other two Classes so far, the two New York Senators each blindly drew between two pieces of paper, one marked "3", the other which was blank- after this, there was a second lot drawing in which the New York Senator who had drawn the blank paper blindly drew again between two pieces of paper marked "1" and "2": he drew "1" so that New York would henceforth have Senators of electoral Classes 1 and 3.

When North Carolina seated its two Senators after ratifying the Constitution on 21 November 1789, there was yet another lot drawing (on 29 January 1790) in which North Carolina's two Senators each blindly drew between pieces of paper marked "2" and "3" (since there were now 12 States and, thus, 24 Senators: 24 being equally divisible by 3, there would now have to be 8 Senators in each of the three Classes to fulfill the Constitutional provision that, as nearly as was practicable, one third of the Senate be elected every second year).

After Rhode Island- the last of the 13 original States- finally ratified the Constitution on 29 May 1790 and subsequently seated its two Senators that Summer, there was yet one more lot drawing in the First Congress (on 25 June 1790) in which Rhode Island's two Senators blindly drew between pieces of paper marked "1", "2" and "3": one Senator drew "2", the other drew "1"- thereby determining electoral Classes 1 and 2 as those for the Senators from this State. When Vermont was admitted to the Union as the 14th state on 4 March 1791, there was again a double lot drawing as there had been for New York. From that day until this, whenever a new State has been admitted to the Union, these types of lot drawings (the type determined by the necessity of keeping the number of Senators in each electoral Class as close to one third as possible at the time of said lot drawing) between the new State's first Senators is held before the Senate to determine in just which of the three electoral Classes that State's Senate seats will be placed from then on.


 


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