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The 2012 Texas Democratic Primary was held on May 29, 2012. Incumbent Barack Obama, running for the nomination without significant opposition, won the primary with 88.18% of the vote and was awarded all of Texas' 287 delegates to the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
In the 2012 election for the state legislature, that gap in wasted votes meant that one party had 48.6% of the two-party votes but won 61% of the 99 districts. [28] The wasted vote effect is strongest when a party wins by narrow margins across multiple districts, but gerrymandering narrow margins can be risky when voters are less predictable.
In the 2012 election for the state legislature, the efficiency gap was 11.69% to 13% in favor of the Republicans. ... Texas's controversial 2003 partisan gerrymander ...
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyAs states begin to cement their congressional maps for the next decade, Democrats have a choice.They can take the high road, operate ...
However, the proposed Senate map for 2012 was challenged under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and in U.S. District Court for racial gerrymandering. The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled with the plaintiffs and proposed its own example map, undoing the racial gerrymander in Senate District 10, and ordered ...
The old gerrymandering had a very bad stench and is still practiced in many states including Texas, columnist George Skelton writes. Column: Gerrymandering still exists in California. But reforms ...
The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 2012. It coincided with the reelection of President Barack Obama.Elections were held for all 435 seats representing the 50 U.S. states and also for the delegates from the District of Columbia and five major U.S. territories.
‘The great gerrymander of 2012’ But a lot of progress has been made since the 2010 midterms. “Gerrymandering is not going to determine who controls Congress in 2024 – that’s a big ...