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It was the sixth presidential election in a row where Michigan voted in favor of the Democratic candidate, with Republicans last carrying the state in 1988. Obama's margin of victory was significantly decreased from 2008 when he carried the state by 16.44%, and he lost 26 counties that had voted for him four years prior.
Since its admission to statehood in 1837, Michigan has participated in every U.S. presidential election, although they did participate in the 1836 election and receive electoral votes. Michigan is tied with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin for the longest active streak of voting for the winning candidate, last voting for a losing candidate in 2004 ...
This Michigan election used a semi-open primary system (which the state referred to as "closed") in which each voter made a public declaration at their election site and received the ballot for the appropriate party, rather than the fully open system used in the past. [2] The state had 7,286,556 registered voters as of February 15. [3]
As of 4 a.m. Wednesday, Michigan saw 100,960 voters choose "uncommitted" in the Democratic primary, accounting for about 13.3% of the total vote share with over 98% of the estimated votes counted ...
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
↩️ Past election history. The results of the last three presidential elections in Michigan are as follows: 2020: Joe Biden (D) defeated Donald Trump (R) by 2.78%. 2016: Donald Trump (R ...
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).
A Michigan campaign used the ballot box to try and send a message to President Joe Biden during the presidential primary Tuesday in a state that could prove key to his 2024 reelection campaign.