United States presidential election in Florida, 2012

United States presidential election in Florida, 2012

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Nominee Barack Obama Mitt Romney Party Democratic Republican Home state Illinois Massachusetts Running mate Joe Biden Paul Ryan Electoral vote 29 0 Popular vote 4,237,756 4,163,447 Percentage 50.01% 49.13%
County Results   Obama—40-50%   Obama—50-60%   Obama—60-70%   Obama—70-80%   Romney—40-50%   Romney—50-60%   Romney—60-70%   Romney—70-80%   Romney—80-90%
President before election Barack Obama Democratic Elected President Barack Obama Democratic

Florida Republican primary, 2012

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Candidate Mitt Romney Newt Gingrich Home state Massachusetts Georgia Delegate count 50 0 Popular vote 776,159 534,121 Percentage 46.40% 31.93%   Candidate Rick Santorum Ron Paul Home state Pennsylvania Texas Delegate count 0 0 Popular vote 223,249 117,461 Percentage 13.35% 7.02%
Florida results by county   Mitt Romney   Newt Gingrich

Barack Obama
Democratic

Barack Obama
Democratic

The 2012 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated. Florida voters chose 29 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan. Several counties in the state suffered delays in finalizing their votes. This was caused in part by a high turnout, as well as a large number of absentee ballots to count, though some (international) media responded that 'foul play' might be involved.

As of November 8, the voting had still not concluded. However, with much of the remaining vote still coming in from heavily Democratic areas, Mitt Romney's Florida campaign acknowledged that Romney had lost the state to Barack Obama. In order to certify the election in Florida, the ballots continued to be counted. Both Miami-Dade and Broward County completed their ballot counts on November 8, leaving Palm Beach and Duval counties as the only two that did not have a final count at the end of the day.