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2012 Republican Party presidential candidates ← 2008 August 28, 2012 (Republican National Convention) 2016 → Candidate Mitt Romney Ron Paul Home state Massachusetts Texas Delegate count 2061 190 States carried 42+ DC & U.S. Territories 3 Popular vote 10,031,336 2,095,762 Percentage 52.13% 10.89% First place finishes by convention roll call Previous Republican nominee before election John ...
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).
Two candidates from the 2008 presidential primaries, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, ran again in the 2012 primary campaign. Mitt Romney was the early frontrunner, and he maintained a careful, strategic campaign that centered on being an establishment candidate.
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.
Candidates with considerable name recognition who entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination in the early stages of the primary campaign included U.S. representative and former Libertarian nominee Ron Paul, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, who co-chaired John McCain's campaign in 2008, former Massachusetts governor Mitt ...
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 ...
For the first time in modern Republican primary history, three different candidates won the three key early contests: Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses (though Romney was originally believed to have won before a recount), Mitt Romney in the New Hampshire primary, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in the ...
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]