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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 a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote. As the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nation's ...
Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states/districts won by Democrat Barack Obama, and Red denotes those won by Republican Mitt Romney. Numbers indicate electoral votes allotted to the winner of each state. Senate elections; Overall control: Democratic hold: Seats contested: 33 of 100 seats: Net seat change: Democratic +2: 2012 ...
United States presidential election in Tennessee, 2012 Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Republican: Mitt Romney: Paul Ryan: 1,462,330: 59.42%: 11: Democratic: Barack Obama (incumbent) Joe Biden (incumbent) 960,709 39.04% 0 Libertarian: Gary Johnson: Jim Gray: 18,623 0.67% 0 Green: Jill Stein: Cheri Honkala: 6,515 0. ...
Washington weighed in as 11.01% more Democratic than the national average in 2012. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last presidential election in which the Republican nominee won Whitman County and the Democratic nominee won Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Mason, and Pacific Counties. This is also the last time a Republican received ...
Paul (with 11.12% of the vote) narrowly edged out Santorum (with 10.39% of the vote), and Gingrich came in last with 7.64% of the vote. 5.23% of voters registered "no preference". The awarded delegate count from North Carolina's Republican state convention was Romney with 48 delegates and Paul with 7 delegates.
2012 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Democratic: Barack Obama (incumbent) Joe Biden (incumbent) 267,070: 90.91%: 3: Republican: Mitt Romney: Paul Ryan: 21,381 7.28% 0 Green: Jill Stein: Cheri Honkala: 2,458 0.84% 0 Libertarian: Gary Johnson: James P ...
The Democratic margin of victory also made 2012 the first time since 1948 that Virginia voted more Democratic than the nation as a whole, albeit by a narrow advantage of 0.02%: These were ultimately signs of Virginia's continuing leftward shift, after it had been a mostly reliable state for Republicans on the presidential level since 1952.