Indiana State Senate
Today, Daily Kos Election's President-by-Legislative District project visits Indiana and Missouri, two Midwestern states that usually vote Republican for president but are willing to consider Democrats for downballot offices. President-by-LD is our ongoing project to provide election results by legislative and congressional district for every state in the nation. You can find our master list of data here.
The interactive maps in this post were created by Stephen Wolf. Each legislative chamber is mapped out and color-coded according to the presidential winner and the party that holds each district, along with some info on each legislator. You can find links to all the previously released maps here, which you may want to bookmark.
Districts in solid blue were carried by Obama and are represented by a Democrat, while those in solid red were won by Mitt Romney and are held by a Republican. Lighter red districts voted for Obama and a Republican legislator while those in lighter blue went for Romney and a Democratic legislator. Note that the map displays use only the two-party vote to give you a more equivalent comparison between presidential and legislative results, but this post and Daily Kos Elections numbers include totals for third-party candidates, though the differences are minor.
Indiana Senate:
We have the results of Indiana's 2012 statewide contests calculated by state House, state Senate, and congressional district. This includes the races for president, U.S. Senate, governor, attorney general, and superintendent of public institution.
Republicans have controlled the Indiana state Senate for decades, and that's not going to change anytime soon. Republicans controlled redistricting heading into 2012 and they drew the lines to strengthen their already strong hand. Mitt Romney took Indiana 54-44, and netted 41 of the 50 state Senate seats. The median point in the chamber voted for Romney 57-41, six points more Republican than the state as a whole.
Republicans hold a 37-13 supermajority in the chamber. Four Democrats hail from Romney seats: The reddest Senate seat in Democratic hands is Southern Indiana's SD-48, which went for Romney 61-37. However, state Sen. Lindel Hume is retiring here. Note that in the Indiana Senate half the chamber is up each year, and several Senate races will be conducted under the new lines for the first time in 2014.
Please head over the fold for a look at the Indiana House, and both chambers of the Missouri legislature.
Indiana State House of Representatives
Indiana House:
Until recently, Democrats could compete for this chamber. Team Blue won a slender majority in 2006 and 2008, but the 2010 wave put the GOP back into power. Republicans used redistricting to ensure that the House stayed red for a long time to come, and they now hold a 69-31 supermajority.
Romney carried 72 of the 100 districts. The median seat backed him 58-39, a brutal 10 points more Republican than the whole state. If Democrats are going to have any shot at returning to power under this map, they'll need to win on a lot of very red turf. Four Democrats currently hold Romney seats. HD-45, south of Terra Haute, is the reddest Democratic seat at Romney 61-37. The seat's previous occupant Kreg Battles recently resigned and fellow Democrat Bionca Gambill was appointed in his place: Gambill is running for a full term. Randy Truitt is the only Republican to hold an Obama district: His Lafayette-area HD-26 went for Obama 50-48.
Indiana downballot statewide races:
Democrats won the contests for U.S. Senate and superintendent of public institution while the GOP won the races for governor and attorney general.
In the Senate contest, Democrat Joe Donnelly defeated Republican Richard Mourdock 50-44, and took half of the state Senate seats and 48 of the 100 state House districts. Donnelly took five of the state's nine Congressional districts. He easily took IN-01 and IN-07, which both voted for Obama, and pulled off a 50-45 on his home turf in IN-02. Donnelly also narrowly took IN-05 and IN-08. Democrat Gilda Ritz won the superintendent race 53-47, and took 27 of the 50 Senate seats, 57 of the 100 House seats, and four of the nine Congressional districts (she lost IN-05 but won the other four Donnelly seats).
Missouri State Senate
Missouri Senate:
We have the results of Missouri's 2012 statewide races calculated by state House, state Senate, and congressional district. This includes the races for president, U.S. Senate, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, and treasurer.
Republicans took the state Senate in 2000 and now hold a 25 to nine supermajority. Romney won 54-44 here and took 24 of the 34 seats. The median point in the chamber went for Romney 59-39, 10 points more Republican than the state as a whole. Just like in Indiana only half the state Senate is up each year. In 2014 senators in even-numbered seats will be elected for the first time under the new redistricting boundaries.
No Senate Democrats hold Romney seats. Redistricting eliminated the old SD-10, represented by Democrat Jolie Justus, and she is termed out in 2014. The new SD-10 has no relationship to the old one, and it is colored gray on the map: The new district voted for Romney 63-34. Democrats last won in the old SD-22, which is currently vacant. Romney took the new version of the district 56-42. Two Republicans sit in Obama seats. Kurt Schaefer holds the Columbia area SD-19, which narrowly went for Obama; John Lamping is retiring this year in St. Louis County's SD-24, which went for the president 51-48.
Missouri State House of Representatives
Missouri House:
Republicans flipped the state House in 2002 and now hold a 110-53 supermajority. Romney won 120 of the 163 seats: He took the median seat 61-37, putting it 14 points to the right of the state. Eleven House Democrats hold Romney seats. The reddest Democratic seat is HD-41, held by termed-out state Rep. Ed Schieffer. This district, centered around Troy northwest of the St. Louis area, went for Romney 63-34. Two Republicans hold seats that Obama narrowly won.
Missouri downballot statewide races:
Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder pulled off a 49-46 statewide win, but Democrats won in the contests for U.S. Senate, governor, attorney general, secretary of state, and treasurer. Sen. Claire McCaskill won the widest statewide victory, defeating Republican Rep. Todd Akin 55-39. McCaskill won 106 of the 163 state House seats, 23 of the 34 Senate seats, and six of the eight congressional districts. The closest statewide contest was for secretary of state, where Jason Kander won 49-47. Demonstrating how favorable all three district maps are for the GOP, Kander netted only 62 state House seats, 14 Senate districts, and two congressional districts.