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The only election which changed party hands (from Republican to Democratic) was in New York's 23rd congressional district. Also, a primary election was held in Massachusetts on December 8, 2009, for the senate seat left open by the death of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy ; the general special election for that later seat occurred on January 19, 2010.
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
The 1824 election was the first in which the popular vote was first fully recorded and reported. Since then, 19 presidential elections have occurred in which a candidate was elected or reelected without gaining a majority of the popular vote. [4] Since the 1988 election, the popular vote of presidential elections was decided by single-digit ...
[168] [169] When the remaining votes were counted after the release of the report, the total number of votes cast in the presidential election was raised to 131.2 million, which surpassed the American University report's preliminary estimate of 126.5 to 128.5 million voters by a factor of between 2% and 4%.
2012 Democratic Party presidential primaries Pledged delegates Contest Candidates and results Total votes cast Ref Barack Obama John Wolfe Jr. KJ Keith Judd Darcy Richardson BE Bob Ely Randall Terry JR Jim Rogers Other/Uncommitted Totals votes earned: 4,761 60 contests 91.0% 4,780 delegates 8,106,369 votes: 1.3% 23 delegates 116,639 votes: 0.8% ...
State results where a third-party or independent presidential candidate won above 5% of the popular vote (1832–present) State results where a major-party candidate received above 1% of the state popular vote from a third party cross-endorsement (1896–present) It is rare for candidates, other than those of the six parties which have ...
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
2010 Senate election results map Republican gain Democratic hold Republican hold: House elections; Overall control: Republican gain: Seats contested: All 435 voting seats: Popular vote margin: Republican +6.8%: Net seat change: Republican +63: 2010 House election results map Democratic hold Republican hold