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Won the popular vote and received the most electoral votes, but lost the electoral college majority and contingent election. [c] John St. John: 1884: Prohibition: 147,482 1.50% Third-party candidate. Alson Streeter: 1888: Union Labor: 146,602 1.31% Third-party candidate. Hugh Lawson White: 1836: Whig: 146,109 9.7%
Obama's vote total was the fourth most votes received in the history of presidential elections (behind Obama's 2008 victory and both major candidates in 2020) and the most ever for a reelected president. 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.
Eventually, Clinton ended her campaign and endorsed Obama for the nomination, prompting his victory. He went on to face Senator John McCain from Arizona as the Republican nominee, defeating him with 365 electoral votes to McCain's 173. Obama sought re-election for a second term in 2012, running virtually unopposed in the Democratic primaries.
Maps and electoral vote counts for the 2012 presidential election. Our latest estimate has Obama at 281 electoral votes and Romney at 191.
Obama defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney to win a second term, taking 51.1 percent of the popular vote and 332 of the 538 electoral votes. Romney defeated Rick Santorum , Newt Gingrich , and several other candidates to win his party's nomination in the 2012 Republican primaries .
President Barack Obama ran unopposed in the Democratic Primary, winning 293,914 votes, or 97.89%. Uncommitted ballots received 5,092 votes, or 1.89% of the vote, while 849 votes, 0.28%, were scattered. 111 delegates, all of which were pledged to Obama were sent to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. [4]
Other candidates could run as write-in candidates, which received a total 0.2% of the vote. The state had been considered likely, but not certain, to go to Obama. [ 6 ] While the state had voted for a Democrat since 1992 , it remained competitive, especially after Bush's loss of only 2.5% in 2004 .
As of October 22, 2012, polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight estimated that there was a 66% likelihood that Obama would win Iowa's electoral votes. [32] Up until September 2012, polling showed a close race with Obama narrowly leading. In late September 2012, Obama gained momentum and this continued through the first three weeks of October 2012 ...