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Live election results from The Huffington Post. Romney vs. Obama, Senate, House and ballot measures.
"Videos of Senate Sessions for the 112th Congress from www.C-SPAN.org". "Videos of Committees from the House and Senate for the 112th Congress from www.C-SPAN.org". House of Representatives Session Calendar for the 112th Congress, 2011 calendar (PDF). House of Representatives Session Calendar for the 112th Congress, 2012 calendar (PDF).
This was the first congressional election using districts drawn up based on the 2010 United States census. Although Democratic candidates received a nationwide plurality of more than 1.4 million votes (1.1%) in the aggregated vote totals from all House elections, [ 3 ] the Republican Party won a 33-seat advantage in seats, thus retaining its ...
Representatives are elected for two-year terms; those elected will serve in the 112th Congress from January 2013 until January 2015. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices, including a quadrennial presidential election, and an election to the U.S. Senate. Primary elections were held on June 12, 2012. [1]
The 5th District has been left open by Rep. Chris Murphy (D), who has chosen to run for Joe Lieberman's open U.S. Senate seat in 2012. Former state Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D) defeated state House Speaker Chris Donavan, that party favorite whose campaign was plagued with charges of corruption, in a closely contested Democratic primary.
2012 United States Senate elections (34 P) P. ... List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 112th Congress by seniority;
The 2012 United States elections took place on November 6, 2012. Democratic President Barack Obama won reelection to a second term and the Democrats gained seats in both chambers of Congress , retaining control of the Senate even though the Republican Party retained control of the House of Representatives .
Jesse Jackson, Jr. resigned his seat in the 112th Congress on November 21, 2012, and also resigned his seat in the 113th Congress on the same day. As a result, no one was seated in the 113th Congress for the 2nd congressional district, and a special election was called for April, 2013, to fill the vacancy.