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Some of these mayoral elections included the following: Albuquerque, New Mexico – Richard J. Berry (R) defeated Incumbent Mayor Martin Chavez (D). Albany, New York – Incumbent Mayor Gerald Jennings (D) defeated Working Families Party candidate Corey Ellis and Nathan LeBron (R). Anchorage, Alaska – Dan Sullivan (R) was elected mayor.
Romney bounced back in the polls after strong performances in the primaries and because the economy was still recovering from the 2007–2009 recession. In April, after Obama publicly expressed his support of same-sex marriage and a story was published about Romney bullying a high-school classmate who was thought to be gay, Obama took larger ...
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
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 margins, the longest streak of close-election results since states began popularly electing ...
Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral vote Running mate Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote Barack Obama: Democratic: Illinois: 69,498,516 52.93% 365 Joe Biden: Delaware: 365 John McCain: Republican: Arizona: 59,948,323 45.65% 173 Sarah Palin: Alaska: 173 Ralph Nader: Independent ...
The following list indicates lifetime electoral votes received across multiple elections in which the candidate was the nominee of a political party or was otherwise on a presidential ballot. Note that the counting for Electoral College votes for this purpose is complicated by the fact that in the earliest elections, the Electoral College did ...
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% ...
The Iowa Straw Poll (also known as the Ames Straw Poll) [1] was a presidential straw poll and fundraising event for the Republican Party of Iowa.It was held six times, traditionally in late summer approximately six months in advance of contested presidential Iowa caucuses, from 1979 until 2011, on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames.