Florida's_12th_congressional_district

Florida's 12th congressional district
Florida's 12th congressional district
	Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023
Representative
	Gus Bilirakis; R–Palm Harbor
Area	1,069 sq mi (2,770 km2)
Distribution	93.09% urban; 6.91% rural;
Population (2022)	806,076
Median household; income	$59,804
Ethnicity	75.3% White; 13.6% Hispanic; 4.4% Black; 4.1% Two or more races; 2.0% Asian; 0.7% other;
Cook PVI	R+17

Florida's 12th congressional district

U.S. House district for Florida

Florida's 12th congressional district is an electoral district for the U.S. Congress and was assigned along the Gulf coast of central Florida. The district includes Citrus County and Hernando County, as well as most of Pasco County, including the places of New Port Richey, Dade City, Spring Hill, and Homosassa Springs.

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From 2013 to 2023, it covered Pasco County and parts of north Pinellas County and Hillsborough County.^[5]^[6]^[7]

The district is currently represented by Republican Gus Bilirakis.

Recent election results

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[13] Randy Wilkinson ran on the Tea Party platform on the ballot.

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"Congressional Plan--SC14-1905 (Ordered by The Florida Supreme Court, 2-December-2015)" (PDF). Florida Senate Committee on Reapportionment. Retrieved January 11, 2017.

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"Congressional Districts Relationship Files (State-based)". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on April 2, 2013.

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https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/cong_dist/cd113/cd_based/ST12/CD113_FL12.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

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See whole Florida state map for 2013, with the 12th district covering Pasco County and counties below: h9047_35x42L.pdf Congressional Plan: H000C9047. Chapter No. 2012-2, Laws of Florida. www.flsenate.gov. February 16, 2012.

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See the 2013 boundaries of the 12th district, covering Pasco County and northern Pinellas County and northwest Hillsborough in the 2013 districts map: H000C9047_map_sw.pdf, for the southwest region of Florida. Congressional Plan: H000C9047. Chapter No. 2012-2, Laws of Florida. www.flsenate.gov. February 2012.

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Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history	Location
District created January 3, 1963
William C. Cramer (St. Petersburg)	Republican	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1967	88th 89th	Redistricted from the 1st district and re-elected in 1962. Re-elected in 1964. Redistricted to the 8th district.	1963–1967 [data missing]
Dante Fascell (Miami)	Democratic	January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1973	90th 91st 92nd	Redistricted from the 4th district and re-elected in 1966. Re-elected in 1968. Re-elected in 1970. Redistricted to the 15th district.	1967–1973 [data missing]
J. Herbert Burke (Hollywood)	Republican	January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1979	93rd 94th 95th	Redistricted from the 10th district and re-elected in 1972. Re-elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1976. Lost re-election.	1973–1983 [data missing]
Edward J. Stack (Fort Lauderdale)	Democratic	January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1981	96th	Elected in 1978. Lost renomination.
Clay Shaw (Fort Lauderdale)	Republican	January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1983	97th	Elected in 1980. Redistricted to the 15th district.
Tom Lewis (North Palm Beach)	Republican	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993	98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd	Elected in 1982. Re-elected in 1984. Re-elected in 1986. Re-elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Redistricted to the 16th district.	1983–1993 [data missing]
Charles T. Canady (Lakeland)	Republican	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2001	103rd 104th 105th 106th	Elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Re-elected in 1996. Re-elected in 1998. Retired.	1993–2003 [data missing]
Adam Putnam (Bartow)	Republican	January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2011	107th 108th 109th 110th 111th	Elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Retired to run for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services.	1993–2003 [data missing]
Adam Putnam (Bartow)	Republican	January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2011	107th 108th 109th 110th 111th		2003–2013 The district covered areas further east and encompassed much of Polk County as well as parts of rural and suburban east Hillsborough County and a small piece of western Osceola County, which later became the center of the 9th district.
Dennis Ross (Lakeland)	Republican	January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2013	112th	Elected in 2010. Redistricted to the 15th district.
Gus Bilirakis (Palm Harbor)	Republican	January 3, 2013 – present	113th 114th 115th 116th 117th 118th	Redistricted from the 9th district and re-elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Re-elected in 2018. Re-elected in 2020. Re-elected in 2022.	2013–2017
					2017–2023
					2023–present

Year	Office	Results
2004	President	George W. Bush 58 – John Kerry 42%
2008	President	John McCain 50 – Barack Obama 48%
2012	President	Mitt Romney 55 – Barack Obama 45%
2016	President	Donald Trump 60 – Hillary Clinton 40%
2020	President	Donald Trump 57 – Joe Biden 41%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Adam Putnam (Incumbent)		100.00
Total votes				100.00
Turnout			{{{votes}}}
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Adam Putnam (Incumbent)	179,204	64.89
	Democratic	Bob Hagenmaier	96,965	35.11
Total votes			276,169	100.00
Turnout			{{{votes}}}
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Adam Putnam (Incumbent)	124,452	69.12
	Independent	Joe Viscusi	34,976	19.42
	Independent	Ed Bowlin	20,636	11.46
Total votes			180,064	100.00
Turnout			{{{votes}}}
	Republican hold

Florida's_12th_congressional_district

Florida's 12th congressional district

List of members representing the district

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Adam Putnam (Incumbent)	185,698	57.46
	Democratic	Doug Tudor	137,465	42.54
Total votes			323,163	100.00
Turnout			{{{votes}}}
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dennis Ross (Incumbent)	102,704	48.14
	Democratic	Lori Edwards	87,769	41.14
	Independent	Randy Wilkinson^{[lower-alpha 1]}	22,857	10.71
Total votes			213,330	100.00
Turnout			{{{votes}}}
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Gus Bilirakis (incumbent)	209,604	63.5
	Democratic	Jonathan Michael Snow	108,770	32.9
	Independent	John Russell	6,878	2.1
	Independent	Paul Siney Elliott	4,915	1.5
Total votes			330,167	100.0
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Gus Bilirakis (incumbent)	253,559	68.6
	Democratic	Robert Matthew Tager	116,110	31.4
Total votes			369,669	100.0
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Gus Bilirakis (incumbent)	194,564	58.1
	Democratic	Chris Hunter	132,844	39.7
	Independent	Angelika Purkis	7,510	2.2
Total votes			334,918	100.0
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Gus Bilirakis (incumbent)	284,941	62.9
	Democratic	Kimberly Walker	168,194	37.1
Total votes			453,135	100.0
	Republican hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Gus Bilirakis (incumbent)	226,583	70.38
	Democratic	Kimberly Walker	95,377	29.62
	Independent	Charles Smith (write-in)	4	<0.01
Total votes			321,964	100.0
	Republican hold