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Illinois results by county
Mitt Romney
Rick Santorum
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Illinois Republican primary, 2012 | |||||||
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Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Projected delegate count | ||||
NYT |
CNN |
FOX | |||||
Mitt Romney | 435,859 | 46.69% | 42 | 41 | 42 | ||
Rick Santorum | 326,778 | 35.01% | 12 | 10 | 12 | ||
Ron Paul | 87,044 | 9.32% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Newt Gingrich | 74,482 | 7.98% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Rick Perry (withdrawn) | 5,568 | 0.60% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Buddy Roemer (withdrawn) | 3,723 | 0.40% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Unprojected delegates: | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
Total: | 933,454 | 100.00% | 54 | 54 | 54 |
The 2012 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated. Illinois voters chose 20 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. The Obama/Biden ticket won Illinois with 57.60% of the popular vote to Romney/Ryan's 40.73%, thus winning the state's 20 electoral votes by a margin of 16.87%.