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A map of voter turnout during the 2020 United States presidential election by state (no data for Washington, D.C.) Approximately 161 million people were registered to vote in the 2020 presidential election and roughly 96.3% ballots were submitted, totaling 158,427,986 votes. Roughly 81 million eligible voters did not cast a ballot. [3]
The 2012 election marked the first time since 1988 in which no state was won by a candidate with a plurality of the state's popular vote. Furthermore, it is the only post- World War II presidential election in which no states were won by margins smaller than 30,000 votes.
The prospective delegates indicated their presidential preference (and were bound to vote for that candidate for the first two ballots at the Republican National Convention). This was the last state Republican convention [ 84 ] and Romney garnered support of 30 Nebraska delegates; and Ron Paul, the support of two Nebraska delegates.
A gender gap in voting typically refers to the difference in the percentage of men and women who vote for a particular candidate. [1] It is calculated by subtracting the percentage of women supporting a candidate from the percentage of men supporting a candidate (e.g., if 55 percent of men support a candidate and 44 percent of women support the same candidate, there is an 11-point gender gap).
He stopped running as a Republican candidate on January 31, 2012, in an attempt to get his Rent Is Too Damn High Party on the New York ballot in November via lawsuit. [60] On September 13, 2012, McMillan dropped out of the race in order to focus on his candidacy for the 2013 New York City mayoral election , and endorsed President Barack Obama.
Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann was a candidate in the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries. On August 13, 2011, she won the Ames Straw Poll with 28.6% of the vote, the first woman to do so. [32] Despite this, she finished sixth in the Iowa caucus and suspended her campaign shortly thereafter, on January 4, 2012. [33]
Super Tuesday 2012 is the name for March 6, 2012, the day on which the largest simultaneous number of state presidential primary elections was held in the United States. It included Republican primaries in seven states and caucuses in three states, totaling 419 delegates (18.2% of the total).
United States presidential election in Kentucky, 2012 [14] Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Republican: Mitt Romney: Paul Ryan: 1,087,190: 60.47%: 8: Democratic: Barack Obama (incumbent) Joe Biden (incumbent) 679,370 37.78% 0 Libertarian: Gary Johnson: Jim Gray: 17,063 0.95% 0 Independent Randall Terry: Missy Smith ...