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Romney won the election in Alabama with 60.55% of the vote, while Obama received 38.36%, a 22.19% margin of victory. [2] While the state swung slightly more Republican from 2008, Obama flipped two McCain counties, Barbour and Conecuh , into the Democratic column, thereby making it the last time either county voted for a Democratic presidential ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 November 2024. 57th quadrennial U.S. presidential election For related races, see 2012 United States elections. 2012 United States presidential election ← 2008 November 6, 2012 2016 → 538 members of the Electoral College 270 electoral votes needed to win Opinion polls Turnout 58.6% 3.0 pp Nominee ...
Notably, Alabama has also almost always voted for the same presidential candidate as neighboring Mississippi. In more than two hundred years of presidential elections, they have supported the same candidate in all but one; the election of 1840 , when Mississippi voted for William Henry Harrison and Alabama for Martin Van Buren (in 1868 , only ...
The 2012 United States elections took place on November 6, 2012. Democratic President Barack Obama won reelection to a second term and the Democrats gained seats in both chambers of Congress , retaining control of the Senate even though the Republican Party retained control of the House of Representatives .
The 2012 Alabama Republican presidential primary took place on March 13, 2012, on the same day as the Mississippi Republican primary and the Hawaii Republican caucuses. [1] [2] Rick Santorum was declared the winner.
This is a list of electors (members of the Electoral College) who cast ballots to elect the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States in the 2012 presidential election. There are 538 electors from the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The 2010 Census changes the Electoral College vote apportionment for the election for 18 states. [4]December 23 – Jimmy McMillan, perennial candidate from New York changes party affiliation from Democratic to Republican and officially announces his candidacy for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party [5] [6] [7]
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.