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词条 2012 United States Senate election in Tennessee
释义

  1. Background

  2. Republican primary

      Candidates    Declared    Polling    Results  

  3. Democratic primary

      Candidates    Declared    Results  

  4. General election

      Candidates    Predictions    Polling    Results  

  5. See also

  6. References

  7. External links

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| election_name = 2012 United States Senate election in Tennessee
| country = Tennessee
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 2006 United States Senate election in Tennessee
| previous_year = 2006
| next_election = 2018 United States Senate election in Tennessee
| next_year = 2018
| election_date = November 6, 2012
| image_size = 160x180px
| turnout = 52.2% (voting eligible)[1]
| image1 =
| nominee1 = Bob Corker
| party1 = Republican Party (United States)
| popular_vote1 = 1,506,443
| percentage1 = 64.9%
| image2 =
| nominee2 = Mark Clayton
| party2 = Democratic Party (United States)
| popular_vote2 = 705,882
| percentage2 = 30.4%
| map_image = Tennessee Senate Election Results by County, 2012.svg
| map_size = 300px
| map_caption = County Results
Corker:
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Clayton:
{{legend0|#7996e2|50–60%}}
| title = U.S. Senator
| before_election = Bob Corker
| before_party = Republican Party (United States)
| after_election = Bob Corker
| after_party = Republican Party (United States)
}}{{ElectionsTN}}

The 2012 United States Senate election in Tennessee took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the general election including the 2012 U.S. presidential election, elections to the House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Bob Corker won a second term. Corker easily won the Republican primary with 85% of the vote. He faced Democratic Party nominee Mark E. Clayton[2] as well as several third-party candidates and several independents.

Clayton won the Democratic nomination with 30% of the vote, despite raising no money and having a website that was four years out of date.[3] The next day Tennessee's Democratic Party disavowed the candidate over his active role in the Public Advocate of the United States, which they described as a "known hate group". They blamed his victory among candidates for whom the TNDP provided little forums to become known on the fact that his name appeared first on the ballot, and said they would do nothing to help his campaign, urging Democrats to vote for "the write-in candidate of their choice" in November.[4] One of the Democratic candidates, Larry Crim, filed a petition seeking to offer the voters a new primary in which to select a Democratic Nominee among the remaining candidates the party had affirmed as bona fide and as a preliminary motion sought a temporary restraining order against certification of the results, but after a judge denied the temporary order Crim withdrew his petition.[5]

Background

The incumbent in the race, former Chattanooga mayor Bob Corker, was elected in 2006 with 50.71% of the vote in a win against U.S. representative Harold Ford, Jr..

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

  • Fred R. Anderson
  • Mark Twain Clemens, unemployed
  • Bob Corker, incumbent U.S. Senator
  • James Durkan, businessman
  • Brenda Lenard, businesswoman & doctoral student
  • Zach Poskevich, technology consultant

Polling