2012 Oregon Secretary of State election

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2012 Oregon Secretary of State election
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  2008 November 6, 2012 2016  
  Kate Brown cropped.jpg Knute Buehler Candidate.jpg
Nominee Kate Brown Knute Buehler
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote863,656727,607
Percentage51.2%43.2%

Oregon Secretary of State election results by county, 2012.svg
County results
Brown:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%
Buehler:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%

Secretary of State before election

Kate Brown
Democratic

Elected Secretary of State

Kate Brown
Democratic

The 2012 OregonSecretary of State election was held on November 6, 2012, to elect the Oregon Secretary of State. Incumbent Democratic Secretary of State Kate Brown ran for a second term against Republican Knute Buehler. Brown and Buehler ran against each other again in the 2018 Oregon gubernatorial election. [1]

Contents

Candidates

Democratic primary

Candidates

Republican primary

Candidates

  • Knute Buehler, surgeon [2]

Independent primary

Oregon allows candidates to be cross-nominated by up to three political parties. The Independent Party of Oregon holds a month-long online primary to select which candidate receives their nomination. The party chose candidates in a number of legislative and local races but only one statewide race, Secretary of State. [3]

Candidates

Other parties

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)

administered

Sample

size

Margin oferrorKate

Brown (D)

Knute

Buehler (R, I)

Undecided
The Oregonian October 25–28, 2012405± 5%38%23%36%
DHM Research October 18–20, 2012500± 2.6%–4.4%43%37%15%
Public Policy Polling June 21–24, 2012686± 3.7%48%30%21%

Results

Democratic Primary results [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Kate Brown 284,470 91.1
Democratic Paul Damian Wells26,1778.4
Democratic write-ins1,5100.5
Total votes312,157 100
Republican Primary results [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Knute Buehler 199,179 97.76
Republican write-ins 4,5582.24
Total votes203,737 100
Independent Party of Oregon primary results [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Knute Buehler 348 55.68
Democratic Kate Brown27744.32
Total votes625 100
Oregon Secretary of State – General Election Results [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Kate Brown 863,656 51.28
Republican Knute Buehler727,60743.20
Pacific Green Seth Woolley44,2352.63
Libertarian Bruce Alexander Knight24,2731.44
Progressive Robert Wolfe21,7831.29
write-ins 2,5610.15
Total votes1,684,115 100

Results by congressional districts

Brown won 4 of 5 congressional districts. [9]

DistrictBrownBuehlerRepresentative
1st 52%43% Suzanne Bonamici
2nd 40%56% Greg Walden
3rd 65%28% Earl Blumenauer
4th 50%44% Peter DeFazio
5th 49%47% Kurt Schrader

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