Oregon's 12th Senate district
{{Short description|American legislative district}}
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File:Oregon's 12th Senate District as of September 27, 2021.pdf
District 12 of the Oregon State Senate comprises parts of Yamhill and Polk counties centered around Dallas, McMinnville, and Newberg. It is composed of Oregon House districts 23 and 24. It is currently represented by Republican Bruce Starr of Dundee.
Election results
District boundaries have changed over time. Therefore, senators before 2021 may not represent the same constituency as today. From 1993 until 2003, the district covered parts Clackamas County; from 2003 until 2013, it shifted to cover rural western Benton, Polk, and Yamhill counties plus a small panhandle in southern Marion County and a small part of Linn County to cover the small town of Jefferson; and from 2013 until 2023, it lost some rural land in western Polk and Yamhill counties while adding parts of southern Washington County stretching north to southern Hillsboro.
The current district was consolidated slightly from its previous iterations, losing all of its land in Benton, Marion, and Washington counties while regaining almost all of Polk and Yamhill counties stretching to their western borders.
The results are as follows:{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerDetail.html?ContainerID=17755|title=OR State Senate 12|publisher=Our Campaigns|accessdate=August 7, 2017}}
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! Year ! Candidate ! Party ! Percent ! Opponent ! Party ! Percent ! Opponent ! Party ! Percent |
| 1982
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Walt Brown | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Democratic | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| 63.1% | {{Party shading/Republican}}| Larry Burright | {{Party shading/Republican}}| Republican | {{Party shading/Republican}}| 36.8% | colspan=3 rowspan=10|No third candidate |
| 1986
| {{Party shading/Republican}}| Bill Kennemer | {{Party shading/Republican}}| Republican | {{Party shading/Republican}}| 52.2% | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Walt Brown | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Democratic | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| 47.8% |
| 1990
| {{Party shading/Republican}}| Bill Kennemer | {{Party shading/Republican}}| Republican | {{Party shading/Republican}}| 57.0% | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Bob Johnson | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Democratic | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| 43.0% |
| 1994
| {{Party shading/Republican}}| Bill Kennemer | {{Party shading/Republican}}| Republican | {{Party shading/Republican}}| 54.3% | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Dave McTeague | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Democratic | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| 45.7% |
| 1998
| {{Party shading/Republican}}| Verne Duncan | {{Party shading/Republican}}| Republican | {{Party shading/Republican}}| 57.9% | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Monroe Mark Sweetland | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Democratic | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| 42.1% |
| 2004
| {{Party shading/Republican}}| Gary George | {{Party shading/Republican}}| Republican | {{Party shading/Republican}}| 58.7% | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Hank Franzoni | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Democratic | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| 41.3% |
| 2008
| {{Party shading/Republican}}| Brian Boquist | {{Party shading/Republican}}| Republican | {{Party shading/Republican}}| 60.6% | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Kevin C. Nortness | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Democratic | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| 39.1% |
| 2012
| {{Party shading/Republican}}| Brian Boquist | {{Party shading/Republican}}| Republican | {{Party shading/Republican}}| 60.0% | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Annette Frank | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Democratic | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| 39.8% |
| 2016
| {{Party shading/Republican}}| Brian Boquist | {{Party shading/Republican}}| Republican | {{Party shading/Republican}}| 62.9% | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Ross Swartzendruber | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Democratic | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| 36.9% |
| 2020
| {{Party shading/Republican}}| Brian Boquist | {{Party shading/Republican}}| Republican | {{Party shading/Republican}}| 58.3% | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Bernadette Hansen | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Democratic | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| 41.6% |
| 2024
| {{Party shading/Republican}}| Bruce Starr | {{Party shading/Republican}}| Republican | {{Party shading/Republican}}| 55.6% | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Scott Hooper | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| Democratic | {{Party shading/Democratic}}| 33.6% | {{Party shading/Independent}}| Andrea Kennedy-Smith | {{Party shading/Independent}}| Independent | {{Party shading/Independent}}| 10.7% |