2012 United States Presidential Election
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Pct | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | ||||
| Barack Obama | Democratic | Illinois | 65,465,269 | 50.95% | 332 | Joe Biden | Delaware | 332 |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | Massachusetts | 60,782,804 | 47.31% | 206 | Paul Ryan | Wisconsin | 206 |
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | New Mexico | 1,272,586 | 0.99% | 0 | James P. Gray | California | 0 |
| Jill Stein | Green | Massachusetts | 465,781 | 0.36% | 0 | Cheri Honkala | Pennsylvania | 0 |
| Virgil Goode | Constitution | Virginia | 120,747 | 0.09% | 0 | Jim Clymer | Pennsylvania | 0 |
| Roseanne Barr | Peace and Freedom | Hawaii | 67,229 | 0.05% | 0 | Cindy Sheehan | California | 0 |
| Rocky Anderson | Justice | Utah | 41,986 | 0.03% | 0 | Luis J. Rodriguez | California | 0 |
| Tom Hoefling | America's | Iowa | 40,515 | 0.03% | 0 | Jonathan D. Ellis | Tennessee | 0 |
| Other | 222,200 | 0.17% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 128,479,117 | 100% | 538 | 538 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
Read more about this topic: Electoral History Of Barack Obama
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