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The 2012 United States Senate election in Washington took place on November 6, 2012, concurrently with the
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as well as other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell won re-election to a third term by a significant margin, outperforming President Barack Obama's margin in the concurrent
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by 6%.


Background

Maria Cantwell won re-election to serve a third term with 56.81% of the vote against
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in the 2006 Washingtonian U.S. senatorial election.


Top-two primary election


Candidates


Democratic

* Maria Cantwell, incumbent U.S. Senator * Timothy Wilson


Republican

*
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, state senator * Art Coday, physician * Chuck Jackson, merchant mariner * Glen R. Stockwell, president of Washington State Economic Development Corporation * Mike the Mover, perennial candidate


= Declined

= * Bill Bryant, Port of Seattle Commission President * Clint Didier, former
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(running for the U.S. House) *
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, U.S. Representative * Dave Reichert, U.S. Representative * Phillip Yin, Hong Kong-based anchor for Bloomberg Television


Others

* Will Baker (Reform Party)


Results


General election


Candidates

* Maria Cantwell (Democratic), incumbent U.S. Senator *
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(Republican), state senator


Debates


Complete video of debate
October 12, 2012 -
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Fundraising


Top contributors


Top industries


Predictions


Polling

;Aggregate polls


Endorsements


Results


By congressional district

Cantwell won 8 of 10 congressional districts with the remaining 2 going to Baumgartner.


See also

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Notes


References


External links


Elections & Voting
at the Washington Secretary of State office
Campaign contributions
at OpenSecrets.org
Outside spending
at
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Candidate issue positions
at On the Issues ;Official campaign websites (Archived)
Maria Cantwell

Michael Baumgartner

Art Coday
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