2012 United States presidential election in Florida information
Election in Florida
2012 United States presidential election in Florida
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November 6, 2012
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Turnout
72% [1]
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
Congressional District Results
Obama
40-50%
50-60%
60-70%
70-80%
Romney
40-50%
50-60%
60-70%
70-80%
80-90%
President before election
Barack Obama
Democratic
Elected President
Barack Obama
Democratic
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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.[2][3][4]
By November 8, the vote counting had still not concluded. However, with much of the remaining vote still coming in was from heavily Democratic areas, Romney's Florida campaign acknowledged that he had lost the state to Obama. In order to certify the election in Florida, the ballots continued to be counted.[5] 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.[6]
Florida required all counties to finish counting by noon Saturday but would not announce an official winner until the votes were certified on November 20. A recount is not done unless the difference is less than 0.5%. At 11 PM EST on November 9, the margin for Obama was 0.86%, with all but one county finished with their counting.[7] On November 10, most major news sources projected Obama to be the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes. It was the last state to be called in the 2012 presidential election and also the closest.[8][9][10]
Despite Tampa having been the site of the 2012 Republican National Convention, Obama ultimately carried Florida with 50.01% of the vote, to Romney's 49.13%, a margin of 0.88%. Having also won the state in 2008, Obama's 2012 victory made him the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 to carry Florida twice, and also marked the first time since 1948 that the state voted Democratic in consecutive elections. Nonetheless, Obama’s margin of victory decreased substantially from 2.81% in 2008, and his percentage of the vote decreased from 50.91%. He also lost Flagler and Volusia Counties, which he had won in 2008;[11] he thus became the first Democrat to win the White House without carrying the former since Harry S. Truman in 1948 and the first to do so without carrying the latter since John F. Kennedy in 1960.
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time that a Democratic presidential nominee has carried Florida, or the following counties: Jefferson, St. Lucie, and Monroe. This also remains the second closest presidential result in the state ever, behind only the infamous 2000 election. This remains the most recent election in which Florida voted to the right of Iowa and Ohio.
^"Voter Turnout". Florida Division of Elections. 2021. Archived from the original on June 2, 2015.
^"2 Days After Election Florida Still Counting Votes". Archived from the original on November 12, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
^'Obama wint ook in Florida' (in Dutch)
^"Barack Obama closes in on Florida vote victory". BBC News. November 9, 2012. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
^Caputo, Marc (November 8, 2012). "Obama to win Florida; becomes emotional during thank you speech". The Miami Herald.
^Weaver, Jay; Mazzei, Patricia; Morgan, Curtis (November 8, 2012). "Broward joins Miami -Dade in completing election count". The Miami Herald. Archived from the original on November 9, 2012.
^"Florida May Have Election Results By Noon Saturday". Archived from the original on November 13, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
^"It's official: Obama wins Florida". Los Angeles Times. November 10, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
^"Obama wins Florida, topping Romney in final tally". Retrieved November 14, 2012.
^"Obama's final win in Florida gives him 332 electoral votes". Reuters. November 10, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
^"Florida". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
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