United States presidential election in Washington (state), 2012

For the 2012 presidential election in Washington, D.C., see United States presidential election in the District of Columbia, 2012.

Main article: United States presidential election, 2012

United States presidential election in Washington, 2012

November 6, 2012

Nominee Barack Obama Mitt Romney Party Democratic Republican Home state Illinois Massachusetts Running mate Joe Biden Paul Ryan Electoral vote 12 0 Popular vote 1,755,396 1,290,670 Percentage 56.16% 41.29%

County Results   Obama—60-70%   Obama—50-60%   Obama—<50%   Romney—<50%   Romney—50-60%   Romney—60-70%   Romney—70-80%

President before election Barack Obama Democratic Elected President Barack Obama Democratic

The 2012 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated. Washington voters chose 12 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.

President Obama won the state of Washington comfortably, taking 56.16% to Mitt Romney's 41.29%, a 14.87% margin of victory. The election continued the state's blue trend; Washington has not voted for a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1984.

General Election

Results

United States presidential election in Washington, 2012
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Barack Obama	Joe Biden	1,755,396	56.16%	12
	Republican	Mitt Romney	Paul Ryan	1,290,670	41.29%	0
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson	Jim Gray	42,202	1.35%	0
	Green	Jill Stein	Cheri Honkala	20,928	0.67%	0
	Constitution	Virgil Goode	Jim Clymer	8,851	0.28%	0
	Justice	Rocky Anderson	Luis J. Rodriguez	4,946	0.16%	0
	Socialism and Liberation	Peta Lindsay	Yari Osorio	1,318	0.04%	0
	Socialist Workers	James Harris	Alyson Kennedy	1,205	0.04%	0
Totals				3,125,516	100.00%	12

Democratic caucuses

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Republican caucuses

Main article: Washington Republican caucuses, 2012

Results of the non-binding strawpoll by county. Orange indicates a county won by Romney, gold by Paul, dark green by Santorum.

The Republican caucuses were held on March 3, 2012, The additional preferential primary, as held since 1992, was canceled this year for budgetary reasons, as was the one in 2004. Caucus participants however did not allocate national delegates to the candidates, they did only elected delegates to the county conventions and took part in a nonbinding strawpoll. Only the state convention on May 31 – June 2, 2012 legally pledged delegates to the national convention to specific candidates.

Caucus results

With 3,677,919 registered voters as of February 29, the turnout was 1.4%.

Washington state Republican caucuses nonbinding strawpoll
Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Mitt Romney	19,111	37.65%
Ron Paul	12,594	24.81%
Rick Santorum	12,089	23.81%
Newt Gingrich	5,221	10.28%
Uncommitted	1,656	3.26%
Total Write-Ins	93	0.18%
Totals	50,764	100.00%

Convention results

Convention Results
Candidate	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	State	Party leaders	Total
Mitt Romney	3	3	0	3	3	3	0	3	3	3	10	3	37
Ron Paul	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	5
Rick Santorum	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	30										10	3	43

See also

• Republican Party presidential debates, 2012
• Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012
• Results of the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
• United States Senate election in Washington, 2012

External links

• The Green Papers: for Washington
• The Green Papers: Major state elections in chronological order