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2012 United States Senate elections ← 2010 November 6, 2012 2014 → 2013 (MA, NJ) → 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate 51 seats needed for a majority Majority party Minority party Leader Harry Reid Mitch McConnell Party Democratic Republican Leader's seat Nevada Kentucky Seats before 51 47 Seats after 53 45 Seat change 2 2 Popular vote 49,988,282 39,128,301 Percentage 53.4% ...
Individual states could schedule congressional elections into January or February. [1] The dates when Senate elections were held varied even more: before the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures, which meant senate seats could remain vacant for months or years due to legislative deadlock. [2]
Many of the major issues of the 2012 election were the same as in both 2008 and 2010. [2] Candidates and voters in 2012 were again focused on national economic conditions and jobs, record federal deficits, health care and the effects of the controversial Affordable Care Act, national security and terrorism, education, and energy. [2] [3] [4]
The outlook for the 2012 Senate races. Updated Tuesday, Nov. 6 2:55 pm ET. ... Seat up for election Current Senate. 112th Congress Jan. 2011 - Jan. 2013. 53
Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch won re-election to a seventh term against the Democratic candidate, former state Senator and IBM executive Scott Howell, in a rematch of the 2000 Senate election,with Hatch doing slightly better than in 2000.. [2] This would be the last time Hatch was elected to the Senate before his retirement in 2018.
2012 United States Senate election in Massachusetts ← 2010 (special) November 6, 2012 (2012-11-06) 2018 → Nominee Elizabeth Warren Scott Brown Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 1,696,346 1,458,048 Percentage 53.74% 46.19% County results Municipality results Congressional district results Precinct results Warren: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Brown: 40–50% 50 ...
The election was the first time a Democrat won re-election to the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania since the 1962 election. As of 2025, this is the last time that Fayette County and Luzerne County voted Democratic in a Senate election. This is also the only time since 1956 that Democrats have won a Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race in a presidential year.
The 2012–13 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers primetime hours from September 2012 through August 2013. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2011–12 season. NBC was the first to ...