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This national electoral calendar for 2012 lists the national/federal elections held in 2012 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included.
Timeline of the 2012 United States presidential election ← 2008 November 6, 2012 2016 → 2012 U.S. presidential election Timeline General election debates Electors Polling nationwide statewide Parties Democratic Party Candidates Primaries Results Nominee Convention Republican Party Prelude Candidates Debates and forums Primaries National polling Statewide polling Straw polls Results Nominee ...
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 ...
The 1914 midterm elections became the first year that all regular Senate elections were held in even-numbered years, coinciding with the House elections. The ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 established the direct election of senators, instead of having them elected directly by state ...
Many of the major issues of the 2012 election were the same as in both 2008 and 2010. [2] Candidates and voters in 2012 were again focused on national economic conditions and jobs, record federal deficits, health care and the effects of the controversial Affordable Care Act , national security and terrorism, education, and energy.
The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College.
Here are the key dates that matter for after this Election Day: November 7: State certification of results begins. Once votes are counted, it’s up to the state election officials to certify that ...
From January 3 to June 5, 2012, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 2012 United States presidential election.President Barack Obama won the Democratic Party nomination by securing more than the required 2,383 delegates on April 3, 2012, after a series of primary elections and caucuses.