Republican Party presidential candidates, 2012

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Candidate	Mitt Romney	Ron Paul
Home state	Massachusetts	Texas
Delegate count	2061	190
States carried	47+ 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 McCain

Republican nominee

Mitt Romney

John McCain

Mitt Romney

This article contains lists of notable candidates for the United States Republican Party's 2012 presidential nomination.

The following individuals filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and/or announced their intentions to seek the 2012 presidential nomination of the Republican Party. In this table, those marked lighter grey were not featured in any televised debates that occurred while their respective campaigns were active; those marked darker grey were excluded from the majority of those same televised debates, but are notable for having debated with at least some of the televised candidates in other forums (usually online). Candidates with an asterisk after their withdrawal date subsequently sought the nomination of another party.

See Results of the Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012 for more details about the outcome of the primaries.

The withdrawal of candidate Rick Santorum on April 10, 2012 eliminated his main challenger and all but guaranteed him the nomination. Newt Gingrich's exit from the race on May 2 left him against Ron Paul and Fred Karger. His win in Texas on May 29 finally accumulated enough delegates to mathematically secure him the nomination. Romney was officially announced as the 2012 Republican presidential nominee on August 28, 2012. He was defeated by incumbent President Barack Obama in the general election on November 6, 2012.

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