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2012 United States presidential election in California [17] Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Democratic: Barack Hussein Obama (incumbent) Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (incumbent) 7,854,285: 60.24%: 55: Republican: Willard Mitt Romney: Paul Davis Ryan: 4,839,958 37.12% 0 Libertarian: Gary Johnson: Jim Gray: 143,221 1. ...
The California state elections was held on Election Day, November 6, 2012. On the ballot were eleven propositions , various parties' nominees for the United States presidency , the Class I Senator to the United States Senate , all of California's seats to the House of Representatives , all of the seats of the State Assembly , and all odd ...
The 2012 election marked the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt's last two re-elections in 1940 and 1944 that the Democrats won a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections. [152] Obama was also the first president of either party to secure a majority of the popular vote in two elections since Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 ...
In October 2011, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill which requires all future ballot initiatives to be listed only in general elections (held in November), rather than during any statewide election. The two initiative propositions below qualified for the next statewide election (which was the June 2012 presidential primaries) prior to ...
Since being admitted to the Union in 1850, California has participated in 43 presidential elections. A bellwether from 1888 to 1996, voting for the losing candidates only three times in that span, California has become a reliable state for Democratic presidential candidates since 1992.
Randy Jeffs, a Republican from Irvine, said he didn’t vote for a presidential candidate in the election. But he did vote yes on Proposition 32 after calculating that a worker paid at the higher ...
Ballot measures were not numbered prior to the general election of 1914. [1] Until the November 1982 general election, proposition numbers started with "1" for each election. After November 1982, subsequent propositions received sequentially increasing numbers until November 1998 when the count was reset to "1".
A viral post shared on Threads claims President-elect Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 2% in the 2024 election. View on Threads Verdict: False The claim is false. Multiple sources, including ...